@SouthernMann said in NZ Politics:
I could find plenty of examples, but I can't be fucked. But off the top of my head Stuart Nash, focuses on Oranga Tamariki, criticism of the cyclone response is ongoing. Your arguments are quite poor and ill-informed. Jack Tame regularly walks all over politicians from both sides of the house on his Sunday show funded by the PIJF. If you can't find stories critical of government ministers or government departments you are not looking hard enough.
Here’s the criteria for PIJF funding , to get funding you have to agree to explaining the governments view of co governance. If you breach it it’s basically a loan you’ll pay back as a penalty. You don’t think that a vaguely worded agreement like that with financial penalties doesn’t have an effect on editorial practices ?
You mean Jack Tame who criticised Shane Reti for going out with ambos see the state of the health system ? ffs
If you don’t think our media is heavily biased in one direction I really don’t know what it would take to change your mind . It might be a touch less than when Ardern was pm but by their own admission when surveyed the vast majority of our journalists described their own politics as left leaning .
One last point , the younger journalists in particular see National as the antipodean version of the Republican Party and have extensively covered Luxon and Simeon Browns religious leanings and their thoughts on abortion. Can you honestly tell me they’ve given the same amount of attention to the likes of Mahuta who also voted against late stage abortion? If not why?
I’m sure Ardern misses the media constantly holding her feet to the fire with this sort of hard hitting commentary