The advice Sir Paul offered has been roundly ignored at TV3. Its journalists all seem to be of a specific ‘type’: either white upper middle class whiny rich kids, with the usual virtue signalling and imaginary claims of victimhood, or token dullards employed because they ‘make it look good’.
A consequence has been ‘groupthink’ on a massive scale in recent years; opinions which are not ‘approved’ have swiftly ended careers. Everyone would outdo each other as to who was the most woke and virtuous – lest everyone else refuse to play with them any longer. All very much decadent upper middle class stuff. The other consequence of ‘groupthink’ and having little or no experience of life is a seemingly genuine incomprehension as to why, outside of their bubble (basically outside of the Epsom and Auckland Central electorates), so few agree with them.
Instead of asking pertinent questions of the ‘why do truck drivers in Christchurch and housewives in Napier not believe there are 109 genders?’ variety – as someone like Paul Holmes (and plenty of others back in the day) did – and accepting the answers for what they are, the TV3 kids simply dismissed everyone else as ‘racist’ (what else?) and moved on. The sophisticates chortled at the thought there were still such people in NZ, while unaware it’s actually most people.
When the public turned against the Ardern Government, the rich kids at TV3 did what they could to save her. Scandals were either ignored or, when that was impossible (Kiri Allan), dismissed as a racist attack on New Zealand’s ‘leader’. The sophisticates chortled at how stupid everyone else truly was with their hysteria over a cabinet minister drink driving.
When TV3 journalists (and others) engaged in hit pieces on Judith Collins, or Posie Parker being brutally assaulted, or Israeli women and children being murdered on 7 October, the sophisticates chortled – it was what they all deserved: Doing God’s Work.
John Key could be endlessly roasted for a supposed payment made by Elders when he didn’t even work there, or selling a few shares, or buying some ministerial cars, or drinking a cup of tea, or pulling a ponytail – that was fair game – but TV3 never mentioned one word about certain activities of prime ministerial husbands. The sophisticates chortled at the gullible hicks and rubes who believed these ‘conspiracy theories’ and put it all down to misogyny and (predictably) ‘racism’.
TV3 journalists never had any conscience about ‘outing’ people, doorstepping unsophisticated people to trap them into saying something unwise – for even more chortling by the sophisticates – invading the privacy of people they dislike, cancelling people who didn’t vote Labour or Green and any other punishment the sophisticates felt the ignorant rednecks deserved. They did this all whilst refusing to provide context or balance – and did so with ‘malice aforethought’.
Now they’re all on the scrapheap and expect the rest of us to express sympathy for their plight. I don’t think so, comrades: the Christchurch truck drivers and Napier housewives won, and the sophisticates aren’t chortling any longer. Welcome to the ‘life experience’ Paul Holmes talked about.
Capitalist is a simple country boy from the deep south who seeks nothing less than the destruction of socialism and collectivism in New Zealand. This article was first published HERE
Instead of asking pertinent questions of the ‘why do truck drivers in Christchurch and housewives in Napier not believe there are 109 genders?’ variety – as someone like Paul Holmes (and plenty of others back in the day) did – and accepting the answers for what they are, the TV3 kids simply dismissed everyone else as ‘racist’ (what else?) and moved on. The sophisticates chortled at the thought there were still such people in NZ, while unaware it’s actually most people.
When the public turned against the Ardern Government, the rich kids at TV3 did what they could to save her. Scandals were either ignored or, when that was impossible (Kiri Allan), dismissed as a racist attack on New Zealand’s ‘leader’. The sophisticates chortled at how stupid everyone else truly was with their hysteria over a cabinet minister drink driving.
When TV3 journalists (and others) engaged in hit pieces on Judith Collins, or Posie Parker being brutally assaulted, or Israeli women and children being murdered on 7 October, the sophisticates chortled – it was what they all deserved: Doing God’s Work.
John Key could be endlessly roasted for a supposed payment made by Elders when he didn’t even work there, or selling a few shares, or buying some ministerial cars, or drinking a cup of tea, or pulling a ponytail – that was fair game – but TV3 never mentioned one word about certain activities of prime ministerial husbands. The sophisticates chortled at the gullible hicks and rubes who believed these ‘conspiracy theories’ and put it all down to misogyny and (predictably) ‘racism’.
TV3 journalists never had any conscience about ‘outing’ people, doorstepping unsophisticated people to trap them into saying something unwise – for even more chortling by the sophisticates – invading the privacy of people they dislike, cancelling people who didn’t vote Labour or Green and any other punishment the sophisticates felt the ignorant rednecks deserved. They did this all whilst refusing to provide context or balance – and did so with ‘malice aforethought’.
Now they’re all on the scrapheap and expect the rest of us to express sympathy for their plight. I don’t think so, comrades: the Christchurch truck drivers and Napier housewives won, and the sophisticates aren’t chortling any longer. Welcome to the ‘life experience’ Paul Holmes talked about.
Capitalist is a simple country boy from the deep south who seeks nothing less than the destruction of socialism and collectivism in New Zealand. This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
Capitalist, you forgot to include all of those homophobes, transphobes and Islamaphobes Pedophobes etc. etc. etc. that apparently all exist in New Zealand....there are none in Aotearoa, but NZ is chocker full apparently.
Oh I also forgot those pesky right wingers and white supremists and all of those ugly people with their privilege................
Hey Cap, I've said it once and I'll say it again- good riddance to the lot of them.
What has happened is great for this country. I don't know many who even watched newshub or tvnz. We would have if they had decent unbiased non racist content in their obvious agendas....but alas, they don't.
Now, let's focus on TVNZ and the school's of journalism that have their part to play in the racist biased agendas that they promote.
I'm loving it. It's called - Karma.
Just today I listened to a podcast that discussed the change in the type of people who are journalists now. They said it used to be a lower class type of job and now its more like upper middle class. It seems to me that journalists these days are coming straight from a journalism degree at uni, the same universities limiting free speech and adhering to one acceptable way of thinking.
A Stuff headline today referred to parents who want to "protect their children from an undignified death" referring to parents of intellectually disabled adult children wanting changes made to assisted dying laws. Keep in mind this was not a quote. It was written by the writer of the article. There was no neutral presentation of facts to inform the reader, it was totally skewed in support of loosening the criteria for euthanasia because to do anything else is resulting in 'undignified death'. There is no neutral journalism anymore, it is all either left or right and serves to convince its readers of these positions.
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