JC: Media Have Got Their Man

The media in this country are a disgrace. There is nothing remotely professional in how they go about their business in respect of political coverage. They portray an unrelenting left-wing bias pure and simple. They might have the effrontery to tell us they are objective, but that is a falsehood and it is obvious to anyone with a masochistic streak driving them to sit through the six o’clock news hour that it is not the case. What emanates from the radio newsrooms is no better and a lot of what is written in the papers is nothing short of embarrassing.

Ani O'Brien: Luxon wins confidence vote, what now?

Media fails to roll the Prime Minister

Today must end it. After a weeks and months of constant cycles of breathless speculation, anonymous briefings, and increasingly hysterical headlines, Christopher Luxon walked into caucus, forced the issue, and called a vote of confidence on his own leadership. It passed.

That has to be it. Line drawn in the sand.