Media Bias In Journalism

If it is not already obvious to you, the fact that Mikey Sherman has lost her job should now make it very obvious to you that the media, and especially the state broadcasters, the pair of them, are about to find out what it means to be not making the news. not reporting the news but actually making the news actually in the news actually the news itself because just look at what's happened just this week right and this is just a sample of one week this has been going on for ages one week Mikey Sherman's lost her job for poor behavior in a minister's office David Seymour the act party leader's taken an enormous crack at RNZ for hiring John Campbell who's well known for voting left because he said so himself and has even gone so far this is Seymour he's even gone so far as suggesting that that the boss of RNZ should lose his job over this and then the BSA which is the equivalent of the head girl telling everybody off for bad jokes at the party is being abolished. The politicians are coming for the media and Mikey Sherman is an example of the politicians coming for the media because the National Party lined her up eh? They complained about her door knocking Stuart Smith at night for 10 minutes, allegedly. They confirmed that she'd sworn at Nicola Willis' party in the office, which is really unusual that they did that confirmation because Nicola actually broke the Chatham House rules that they so jealously guard themselves as MPs. Now, look, I feel sorry for Mikey for losing her job. That is a really big price to pay. But I do not feel sorry for the media in general for what is coming. We have had this coming. For years we have collectively... actively pushed a certain worldview through the framing of our stories where we decide who is the victim, who is the bad guy, what words we use when we describe things as controversial to let you know that this thing is a bad thing, like the controversial Treaty Principles Bill. When we flip the angle like a good government crime stat story into a bad gang news story for the government, like when Radio New Zealand, which is supposed to be impartial and balanced, more really than any other outlet in this country, chooses a man to front their flagship programme. program who has been explicit about the fact that he votes for left-wing parties. We deserve what is coming to us in this election. We can't screw the scrum for years and not expect to become part of the on-field play. Now I, for one, am not unhappy about what is about to happen. I think it is time for this to get sorted out and if this election brings media bias into sharp relief and forces us all in the media to have a big long hmm and a think about what we've been doing, I don't think that's a bad thing.