Daily Indignation
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Indignant over the media's indignation.
"The media should report true things in proportion to their importance" – Jamison Foser
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"The media should report true things in proportion to their importance" – Jamison Foser
www.dailyindignation.com
Someone at NZME needs to check on Mike Hosking, who up until now has only extolled the noble corporation's pursuit of profit, is now admitting the banks make too much money.
He even says he's "increasingly moving towards accepting I'm wrong" and Adrian Orr (!) might have been right.
He even says he's "increasingly moving towards accepting I'm wrong" and Adrian Orr (!) might have been right.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Someone at NZME needs to check on Mike Hosking, who up until now has only extolled the noble corporation's pursuit of profit, is now admitting the banks make too much money.
He even says he's "increasingly moving towards accepting I'm wrong" and Adrian Orr (!) might have been right.
He even says he's "increasingly moving towards accepting I'm wrong" and Adrian Orr (!) might have been right.
What's funny about the BBC resignations over the Trump/Capitol Jan 6 riot edit is Trump used the word "fight" 20 times, along with all sorts of violent imagery and threats, and said "peacefully" once. His intent was so clear only a bad-faith newspaper like the Telegraph could pretend this was bias.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
What's funny about the BBC resignations over the Trump/Capitol Jan 6 riot edit is Trump used the word "fight" 20 times, along with all sorts of violent imagery and threats, and said "peacefully" once. His intent was so clear only a bad-faith newspaper like the Telegraph could pretend this was bias.
This must be the most pure form of Betteridge's law of headlines, considering *no one* won, which the NZ Herald knew before writing this.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This must be the most pure form of Betteridge's law of headlines, considering *no one* won, which the NZ Herald knew before writing this.
Well that's one way to kill a newspaper.
(Via NZME's Shayne Currie, hence the unabashed glee and describing a guy who said Ian Taylor was "sucking up to the left Māori loving agenda" as "robust")
(Via NZME's Shayne Currie, hence the unabashed glee and describing a guy who said Ian Taylor was "sucking up to the left Māori loving agenda" as "robust")
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Well that's one way to kill a newspaper.
(Via NZME's Shayne Currie, hence the unabashed glee and describing a guy who said Ian Taylor was "sucking up to the left Māori loving agenda" as "robust")
(Via NZME's Shayne Currie, hence the unabashed glee and describing a guy who said Ian Taylor was "sucking up to the left Māori loving agenda" as "robust")
As a millionaire who never leaves his luxury car or office endorses the forced removal of homeless people from Auckland's CBD, a reminder that crime there is down 35%.
(Ironically Hosking's column is about how "we don’t deal with emotive stories well, because of fear")
(Ironically Hosking's column is about how "we don’t deal with emotive stories well, because of fear")
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
As a millionaire who never leaves his luxury car or office endorses the forced removal of homeless people from Auckland's CBD, a reminder that crime there is down 35%.
(Ironically Hosking's column is about how "we don’t deal with emotive stories well, because of fear")
(Ironically Hosking's column is about how "we don’t deal with emotive stories well, because of fear")
"Turn the volume up"
From Stuff, who's owner claims they don't do clickbait.
From Stuff, who's owner claims they don't do clickbait.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Turn the volume up"
From Stuff, who's owner claims they don't do clickbait.
From Stuff, who's owner claims they don't do clickbait.
One of my favourite things is this absolute misery guts spending his life bitching & moaning about everything except whatever fuckery the coalition govt is doing & then wondering why the plebs are complaining all the time.
You might be doing fine, Mike, but perhaps you're a bit out of touch.
You might be doing fine, Mike, but perhaps you're a bit out of touch.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One of my favourite things is this absolute misery guts spending his life bitching & moaning about everything except whatever fuckery the coalition govt is doing & then wondering why the plebs are complaining all the time.
You might be doing fine, Mike, but perhaps you're a bit out of touch.
You might be doing fine, Mike, but perhaps you're a bit out of touch.
The media will play this "Labour refuses to rule out working with the extremists" song up until the election but will never once ask Luxon if he's comfortable working with the extremist parties he's currently working with. In fact, they make excuses for him, saying he can't control ACT and NZF MPs.
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The media will play this "Labour refuses to rule out working with the extremists" song up until the election but will never once ask Luxon if he's comfortable working with the extremist parties he's currently working with. In fact, they make excuses for him, saying he can't control ACT and NZF MPs.
NZME's Thomas Coughlan once again rushes to scare-monger about a tiny percentage of edge cases while ignoring the actual, current govt policies that are negatively affecting the majority of people.
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NZME's Thomas Coughlan once again rushes to scare-monger about a tiny percentage of edge cases while ignoring the actual, current govt policies that are negatively affecting the majority of people.
NZ Herald's Jamie Ensor – who literally just wrote an opinion piece about how Luxon's meeting with Trump was a "big win" – now says "Luxon may have something to say about [tariffs]" about the SAME meeting – BRO HE HAD A CHANCE AND DIDN'T SAY SQUAT. At what point do you criticise dear leader?
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
NZ Herald's Jamie Ensor – who literally just wrote an opinion piece about how Luxon's meeting with Trump was a "big win" – now says "Luxon may have something to say about [tariffs]" about the SAME meeting – BRO HE HAD A CHANCE AND DIDN'T SAY SQUAT. At what point do you criticise dear leader?
In a glowing write-up on how great the Luxon/Trump meeting went, the NZ Herald's Jamie Ensor claims Trump is "known for his energy and for working long hours", which really reveals the news sources he's reading.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In a glowing write-up on how great the Luxon/Trump meeting went, the NZ Herald's Jamie Ensor claims Trump is "known for his energy and for working long hours", which really reveals the news sources he's reading.
Hi serious editors who run the NZ Herald: can’t help but notice you repeatedly mention the bus was electric and just wondering what relevance that has to it hitting a tunnel?
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Hi serious editors who run the NZ Herald: can’t help but notice you repeatedly mention the bus was electric and just wondering what relevance that has to it hitting a tunnel?
Fuck remember when John Key played golf with Barack Obama??? Fuck that was so epic man. So cool. Man I wish we could go back there when everything was awesome and we both had awesome leaders who CARED about their people. Not like now. Now sux. Anyway, I'm Tova O'Brien and I get paid for this.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Fuck remember when John Key played golf with Barack Obama??? Fuck that was so epic man. So cool. Man I wish we could go back there when everything was awesome and we both had awesome leaders who CARED about their people. Not like now. Now sux. Anyway, I'm Tova O'Brien and I get paid for this.
Two very thorough reports that talk about causes like youth unemployment, economy, and climate change – and actually says social media can be *good* for youth – is given the Herald headline treatment of "social media bad!" because it aligns with the government trying to ban it for under 16s.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Two very thorough reports that talk about causes like youth unemployment, economy, and climate change – and actually says social media can be *good* for youth – is given the Herald headline treatment of "social media bad!" because it aligns with the government trying to ban it for under 16s.
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has donated to the ballroom.
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has donated to the ballroom.
Facts are personal now I guess.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Facts are personal now I guess.
Disinformation is so easy if the media is on your side, isn't it?
Step 1: Tell teachers meeting to bring agenda items that aren't related to pay or working conditions.
Step 2: When teachers do so (including issues relevant to their students!) sit back and let the media blast them for it.
Step 1: Tell teachers meeting to bring agenda items that aren't related to pay or working conditions.
Step 2: When teachers do so (including issues relevant to their students!) sit back and let the media blast them for it.
![The Post's Luke Malpass:
Public Service Minister Judith Collins has also claimed that some unions have been more interested in discussing the issue of Palestine than their members’ troubles. This has been pushed back on by the PPTA’s Chris Abercrombie, who said while Palestine was on the agenda, other issues came first and it wasn’t a meeting about collective bargaining.
(Whatever the exact truth [Luke's words], there is a reasonable question around what possible interest a secondary school teachers’ union in New Zealand has in discussing a decades-long conflict in the Middle East with an Education Minister, also in New Zealand, with no responsibility for any aspect of foreign policy whatever.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww25tudku2ftgzkp2hxzvjl/bafkreiajrr4k7hppzh4hms2on4g2c3tx7vvjjtlfm6lcewuzy2ge3fc32i@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Disinformation is so easy if the media is on your side, isn't it?
Step 1: Tell teachers meeting to bring agenda items that aren't related to pay or working conditions.
Step 2: When teachers do so (including issues relevant to their students!) sit back and let the media blast them for it.
Step 1: Tell teachers meeting to bring agenda items that aren't related to pay or working conditions.
Step 2: When teachers do so (including issues relevant to their students!) sit back and let the media blast them for it.
NZME-owned NewstalkZB continues to pump out climate change denialism.
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NZME-owned NewstalkZB continues to pump out climate change denialism.
From the news site that claims it doesn't do clickbait!
(the answer is a weather balloon)
(the answer is a weather balloon)
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From the news site that claims it doesn't do clickbait!
(the answer is a weather balloon)
(the answer is a weather balloon)
Now Tim Jago is back in the (non-NZME) news, here's my write-up on it from Feb 2025: dailyindignation.tumblr.com/post/7746083...
(TL;DR: the bias is in the lack of saturation coverage or opinion, the NewstalkZB crowd being silent, the absence of any "What did Seymour know and when did he know it?")
(TL;DR: the bias is in the lack of saturation coverage or opinion, the NewstalkZB crowd being silent, the absence of any "What did Seymour know and when did he know it?")
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Now Tim Jago is back in the (non-NZME) news, here's my write-up on it from Feb 2025: dailyindignation.tumblr.com/post/7746083...
(TL;DR: the bias is in the lack of saturation coverage or opinion, the NewstalkZB crowd being silent, the absence of any "What did Seymour know and when did he know it?")
(TL;DR: the bias is in the lack of saturation coverage or opinion, the NewstalkZB crowd being silent, the absence of any "What did Seymour know and when did he know it?")
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is funny framing because the 'drivel' was aimed at Labour's policy by Luxon, but the 'lazy' was aimed at the media by Hipkins.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is funny framing because the 'drivel' was aimed at Labour's policy by Luxon, but the 'lazy' was aimed at the media by Hipkins.
Despite the question mark, Stuff's Lloyd Burr's "analysis" doesn't attempt to address the alternative: he simply quotes the opposition & makes the searing insight Wayne Brown also has something called a "Future Fund" (who doesn't even return Lloyd's calls).
Job done, knock off for the day, Lloyd.
Job done, knock off for the day, Lloyd.
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Despite the question mark, Stuff's Lloyd Burr's "analysis" doesn't attempt to address the alternative: he simply quotes the opposition & makes the searing insight Wayne Brown also has something called a "Future Fund" (who doesn't even return Lloyd's calls).
Job done, knock off for the day, Lloyd.
Job done, knock off for the day, Lloyd.
Lol hey turns out if you read the Herald and their constant fear-mongering disinfo it gives you absurd results like this
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lol hey turns out if you read the Herald and their constant fear-mongering disinfo it gives you absurd results like this
As usual for right-wingers like Mike Hosking, every accusation is a confession.
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As usual for right-wingers like Mike Hosking, every accusation is a confession.