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The exit of so many socially liberal women at the same time leaves a gaping hole in the so-called broad church of the National party that will cause it to list to the religious right.
Audrey Young
Dear Audrey, thanks for your comments on the National Party. In response, and in order to provide some balance, I would like to reply with an examination of the Media Party.
Originally, Audrey, the media was set up to comprise qualified journalists, who believed in such things as honesty, integrity, accurate reporting, and concepts like being unbiased, investigating the facts and both sides of the story, and speaking truth to power.
Journalists were taught that they should not let their personal opinions become the story and that the people had a right to hear the truth: not the spin, but just the facts. For the last few decades Audrey, all that has vanished from the mainstream media, which have become so partisan and political that they are jokingly now referred to as the “Media Party”.
Media Party A term coined by Cameron Slater to describe the NZ Mainstream media who were acting as the de facto opposition party to the then National government.
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All media comments about left-wing parties are positive, while all articles about centre or centre-right parties are negative. The media are now so untrustworthy that they are ranked as the second least trusted profession, just nudged out by prostitutes (although to be fair, they should probably be under the same category as yourselves anyway).
The media these days are not interested in telling the truth, and in fact, journalists are now taught not to even try to tell the truth, but to instead “control the narrative”, i.e. to use propaganda. What was once “just the facts” has morphed into “just the spin”.
The Media Party, like its similarly aligned parties on the left, the Labour and Green parties, has become so Marxist indoctrinated that it concerns itself only with total irrelevancies and trivialities like race, gender, sexual orientation, and what Jacinda Ardern’s hairdresser thinks while she is cutting Jacinda’s hair (and yes, that was one of yesterday’s puff-pieces).
It is for these reasons, Audrey, that media parties like yours are being shunned by the public and are slowly becoming bankrupt as a result. Bankrupt both in ethics and financially, one flowing naturally from the other.
Audrey, instead of criticising the colour of a politician’s skin, or the bathroom that they use, the media party needs to climb out of the gutter and start reporting the truth and the facts for a change.
Good luck with your upcoming election campaign Audrey, which I see is in full swing at the moment judging by all of your articles of endorsement of your favoured party. I’m sure you have your ticket booked already and are eager to celebrate your party’s win at the upcoming election.
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