Daily Indignation

RNZ & journalistic failure becoming synonymous, particularly in political reporting running this "just reporting what was said" during an election is fucking wild Seymour even says he doesnt know! simply ask an expert instead of carrying misinfo attack lines on behalf of a far right politician??

The media once the coalition wins again, having spent the last 2 weeks of the campaign on gangs: the public voted for privatisation!

Hi, I'm NZ Herald Senior Political Correspondent Audrey Young. I allow right-wing politicians to say the literal opposite of reality in my columns. I and my employer claim I'm not biased. Subscribe for more!

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

How brave of the NZ Herald to publish this editorial the day after voter enrolment closed, when it can have literally zero impact. (And it's *still* not criticising the government for changing the law to make it harder to vote, it's just the usual "better civic education" pleasantries.)

Something I've always loved about media is: the journos all work hard, the commentators churn out columns, the editors make calls over what to cover, and every single one of them believe it doesn't make an iota of difference, because it's always some void that decides what becomes news.

“An institutional certainty that this inability is neutrality” might be the most accurate description of NZ media I’ve ever read. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Fucking thank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social

Whenever someone says "oh but it's a story, the media has to report on it" YES but they don't need to do this, where on a Friday afternoon the members of the press gallery literally interview their own keyboards in order to keep a story going. They do no have to do this, but they choose to.

Then a journalist asked if David thought paedophiles were bad, right?

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

I know this shit really turns you on, Lloyd, but you can fuck off to the pub now. Your work is done.

Seymour openly lied, on camera, to Mihingarangi Forbes, about having any connection to the Atlas network, and our media gave a collective shrug. This has never been about catching politicians in lies, that's just what the press gallery tell themselves so they can sleep at night.

I for one am thrilled our mainstream media is watching independent media like Big Hairy Network and turning it into front page stories. I'm sure that will continue even when it doesn't hurt the left's chances in an upcoming election.

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

Time for what

As far as I can tell, the NZ Herald still has not published a single editorial about the changes to enrolment which is absolutely going to suppress the vote this election. They have just done their third editorial about vandalism of election hoardings, however.

Mark tries and is nicer than I'd be, but Healy doesn't listen; he's only defensive. He dismisses "fascist" as an inflammatory "adjective." No, it is a noun, and by refusing to use it, the #BrokenTimes fails to report on and explain the imminent peril to democracy under Trump. The Times fails us.

"Elon's politics are complicated. Heterodox, if you will" i muse, as he posts his 117th Great Replacement Tweet of the day and attempts to use his enormous power to hand a war to a right wing authoritarian.

But being an arrogant prick is so unlike him

What I really love during election year and at every other time is think pieces by dudes framing pay equity as a choice/cost versus a basic inherent policy that any democracy should have as a given right - which also wouldn’t be framed as such if men were the ones primarily impacted by its absence.

Someone alert Thomas Coughlan

They don't pay taxes. Glad I could clear that up for you, Fran.

A stolen car was found in Ellerslie, and towed to a facility in Mt Eden, which happens to be near a new train station. So perhaps dial down your hard-on for dramatics, Stuff, and change your headline so it's clear someone was not trying to bomb the train station.

NZME will make a lot of noise this week about how much Labour's promises are gonna cost, and it's worth comparing to the noise the same journos made about the cost of the coalition's RONS (over $56b) – i.e. when they even bothered to mention it, it was hidden behind innocuous framing and paywalls.

The order of importance for the Herald and its readers

You can't tell me Stuff, which ran days-long coverage about Charlie Kirk and frequently runs very-online, American-centric content, doesn't know that "globalists" is a antisemitic dogwhistle now used by the far-right. And yet Winston Peters continues to say it, they repeat it, and... nothing.

Stuff's editorial judgement continues to be non-existent. I know, let's tease which slur Hegseth uses! We won't censor it in the video so it'll be a nice surprise for our trans audience! And we won't provide any context, just the 30sec clip! What is the point of this (apart from some ad clicks)?

I love how Mike Hosking is all "don't waste time on ideological stuff if it doesn't grow the economy" but the second the govt potentially faces some economic consequences for their ideological decisions he calls it treasonous. You can deny reality all you want, Mike, but it always wins.

By "got busted on equity" Mike means Labour promised to restore equal pay for women, and by "CGT promise appears problematic now" Mike means he tried to attack Hipkins with incorrect figures. It certainly was a bad week for someone, Mike.

This is a good headline! It refuses to amplify the false claim by using "wrongly", and includes the truth in the headline for everyone who doesn't read the full story (which is mostly everyone). It's also compelling clickbait for those ad guys. Now do this all the time!