how does this work alongside appointing one of the most notorious lobbyists and political PR consultants of the last decade, who has consistently engaged in unethical behaviour at a level that would've had journalists fired at any other time in history
any pretense among NZ MSM is just gone i guess
I don't think many people understand how much we are paralleling the US in the contemptuous hijack of democracy and corrosive shutdown of evidence and knowledge bases. It's like there is a hard right box of chocolates and we are just eating them in a different order. #NZPol
Oh hahahahaha — the gnomes of Switzerland, home of banking secrecy, have implemented a beneficial ownership register. NZ still waiting, 2 and a bit years after the current government shut down officials’ work on it.
How to create an $18bn fiscal hole - tank the economy with your ridiculous cut to grow strategy.
So, on the day Hooton is announced as Post editor, Stuff publishes this bootlicking article (with no byline) on Luxon. The article just repeats Nact talking points & highlights RNZ basically saying to Luxon, 'Yes sir, we promise to do what you ask of us'🧵
#nzpol
And if want a good cry, you could go back and look at their apology to Māori in 2020 which they proceeded to prove inauthentic almost immediately, and every day since
www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/ou...
they're making out it's this crazy little controversy that will be exciting and drive clicks, when the appointment AND the way it's being covered are evidence that the entire NZ mainstream media ecosystem is almost completely bought and paid for by rightwing and far-right interests
NZF's selection of Elliot Ikilei was WORSE than this in multiple ways and Newsroom gave him a puff-piece while every other outlet effectively ignored it haha
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I see the usual suspects are on here saying he’s ’actually a nice guy if you’d give him a chance’
Now we know why Ofcom never addressed objections about media sources presenting climate change denial tropes as fact
This f*ckwit was in charge
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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Former Ofcom chair says he welcomed arrival of rightwing news channel five years ago in name of ‘plurality’
