by Geoffrey Churchman
Obviously rattled by their Party’s 29% of the vote status in their own commissioned poll, the Labourites in TV One News have emulated Stuff’s gutter politics by going after candidates of the two main opposition parties in an attempt to vilify and discredit them. First up are Act candidates.
Today their news team, by their own admission, went through thousands of social media posts over the last 2 years by all the candidates to find ones that they could then tell David Seymour about in order to get a negative comment from him about them. See this article.
This is a common Labour Party tactic as I found out myself via Joel Maxwell back in 2019 about a certain vile local member.
And then newsreader Simon Dallow had the nerve to effectively ask the reporter, “How much have we damaged Act by doing this?”
In reality, it’s hard to imagine many potential Act voters being put off by negative comments about Jabcinda and her dishonesty, and they are quite likely to be held by the vast majority of them. Indeed, it’s probable they would have been helpful in getting votes.
This is just the latest example of the pernicious political bias of TV1 News. As author Amy Brooke says, boycott them. Watching them is bad for one’s blood pressure.
“Seymour said Elaine Naidu Franz – who had been the party’s Rangitata candidate and was 29 on the list – had offered to stand down, and he accepted.” Of course he did.
There was no chance she would have got into parliament; anyone below 18 in the list is just there to show the flag. The 1News hypocrisy is amazing though: the bigoted and racist comments made by Green and Maori Party MPs are rarely given attention.
Never watch the TV1 news anymore or their breakfast show. So bigoted and slanted beyond a joke. The weather is the only thing worth watching and even then, have to mute the speech occasionally when some bar coded woman starts slipping in her maori so called language.
The weather report is much better on TV3 anyway. It gives you todays temperatures running along the bottom of the screen, even the smaller towns. They also give the main cities another showing by starting at Dunedin and going back up to the others and giving a more in depth forecast, even to the extent of telling viewers what the temperature is actually going to feel like; very useful.