Stuff has gone all woke and wet and in the process drowned any credibility they once had by apologising to Maori for over three centuries of bad reporting.
Over three centuries?
That means since 1720 Stuff and its papers have supposedly been unfair on Maori.
Hmmm….three centuries? It is not even two hundred years since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840.
Stuff’s “Truth” starts with a lie.
How many of Stuff’s publications were around before then?
The Dominion Post has only been in existence since 2002. It was created by amalgamating two Wellington printed and published metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, The Evening Post, first published on 8 February 1865, and The Dominion, a morning paper first published on Dominion Day, 26 September 1907.
The Press was first published in 1865.
The Marlborough Express was established in 1866.
The Taranaki Daily News was established in 1857.
The Waikato Times was established in 1872.
The Manawatu Standard was established in 1880.
The Nelson Mail was founded in 1866.
The Southland Times was first established in 1862.
The Timaru Herald was first published in 1864.
So not a single one of their publications has been in print for even two hundred years, much less three hundred years.
In fact no newspaper in New Zealand existed before the 1840s. Therefore Stuff’s claim in their headline, of “over three centuries”, is a lie.
It is not even two hundred years. And the author doesn’t even make the case in the article for three centuries of bad press for Maori, despite heroic efforts at re-writing history.
This is nothing more than woke virtue signalling from an ethically, morally, and financially bankrupt organisation desperate for some attention.
Their “apology” is about as cringeworthy as Father Jack saying sorry to Bishop Brennan in the hit show Father Ted.
Stuff‘s “truth” begins with a lie.