@DailyIndgnation

Indignant over the media's indignation. "The media should report true things in proportion to their importance" – Jamison Foser

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NZME's Ryan Bridge's examples of "extreme, radical ideas" a political party could campaign on are... a separate Māori parliament, and re-nationalising power companies. Mmm, very scary, Ryan.
"The difference this time is how extreme some of the smaller parties, more to the point, some of their MPs, have become - think Takuta on Indians and Simon Court on Palestine. It’s not just rhetoric, but policy, too. A separate Māori parliament, re-nationalising power companies, you name it, they'll go there."

ALT "The difference this time is how extreme some of the smaller parties, more to the point, some of their MPs, have become - think Takuta on Indians and Simon Court on Palestine. It’s not just rhetoric, but policy, too. A separate Māori parliament, re-nationalising power companies, you name it, they'll go there."

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Why, you may ask, is a NZ news org like Stuff reporting some fake outrage about a mayor of a small London town with a population of 12,186? Because Stuff chooses to carry culture war bullshit from The Telegraph, a right-wing UK paper. Decide for yourself if this is newsworthy.
Stuff: "‘Lack of respect’: British mayor criticised for wearing Hawaiian shirt to military event"

ALT Stuff: "‘Lack of respect’: British mayor criticised for wearing Hawaiian shirt to military event"

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it’s insane how mainstream media still uniformly acts like 2024 was a watershed, Reaganesque societal turning point when it’s obvious ~15% of Americans just swung it because they thought there actually was a “make eggs cheaper” button Joe Biden was refusing to hit.
G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris16 Sep 2025
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 economist.com/interactive/tr…
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I enjoyed this picture on NZ Herald of all the media stories about former Act Party president Tim Jago because not a single one is from the NZ Herald. (It's all RNZ and one via the NZME-owned regional paper Hawke's Bay Today)
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(And of course, NZME has treated the Tim Jago story all along as being about name suppression or historic abuse crimes, and not addressed at all the political scandal of current deputy PM David Seymour's role in protecting him)
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NZME's Ryan Bridge says NZ needs a "grow" spurt (yes, the typo is in the headline because literally no one there is reading this), & asks for a democracy that got rich by increasing the size & influence of the govt (but NOT Scandinavian) so: the US, Germany, Japan. $1m please.
"Ryan Bridge: New Zealand needs a grow spurt ... Show me a democracy that got rich by increasing the size and influence of the government and I’ll give you a million bucks."

ALT "Ryan Bridge: New Zealand needs a grow spurt ... Show me a democracy that got rich by increasing the size and influence of the government and I’ll give you a million bucks."

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Ryan also complains about the "banner wavers" (I think he's talking about protesting nurses & teachers) preventing doing business in NZ from being as easy as possible. We already top measures of ease of business. Ryan is full of it.
"And that means doing what the banner wavers of the world hate most - getting roadblocks and innovation-killers like government out of the way. Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Let smart people be smart people and do what they do best: invent, optimise, invest, grow, thrive."

ALT "And that means doing what the banner wavers of the world hate most - getting roadblocks and innovation-killers like government out of the way. Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Let smart people be smart people and do what they do best: invent, optimise, invest, grow, thrive."

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I get it, Ryan: your right-wing government is turning out to be really shit and you're panicking. Blaming workers is of course how you keep your job at NewstalkZB. But you'll be alright, bro. You always fall upwards.
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Evan DeSimone@Smorgasboredom14 Sep 2025
Look, I’m going to give it to her. “We had a black president and it made us all insane” is the most cogent diagnosis of the American Right that i’ve ever seen and I’m genuinely impressed that she’d just come out and say it.
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump13 Sep 2025
Megyn Kelly: “We haven't felt like ourselves since Obama. He was such a slick snake…He was so divisive in his messaging...He’s the one who started to inject race when no one had been doing it… Obama is the reason Trump came about. They say ‘Trump is divisive’. He’s the antidote, the answer to the divisiveness of Obama.”
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Questions for Stuff: Do you consider the Utah governor a reliable source? He also said he wished he could blame the killing on an immigrant. Even if this were true, what conclusion are you hoping your audience will take from this? That he was 'corrupted' somehow?
"Charlie Kirk suspect in a ‘romantic’ relationship with his transgender roommate, says Utah governor"

ALT "Charlie Kirk suspect in a ‘romantic’ relationship with his transgender roommate, says Utah governor"

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This is a 13 second video of Charlie Kirk throwing out hats to the crowd. Just real top-tier reporting, I can see why you ask for donations, Stuff, throw a few more journos on this essential story.
"Footage from Utah Valley University before Charlie Kirk was shot"

ALT "Footage from Utah Valley University before Charlie Kirk was shot"

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the WALL STREET JOURNAL wrote an article BASED ON THREE LETTERS THAT ARE A COMMON STAMP FOR BULLET MANUFACTURERS you people are genuinely evil
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ11 Sep 2025
Breaking: Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk’s shooting, sources say on.wsj.com/42jMYDq

Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology;...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article detailed how an internal law enforcement bulletin said that _ammunition recovered following the Charlie Kirk shooting was engraved with expressions...

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God there is so much our local media could be doing with this story that's relevant to NZ but instead they're just copy-pasting "having a difference of opinion is now a death sentence" American bullshit.
Becca Lewis@beccalew11 Sep 2025
I used to give a presentation where I would put a “great replacement” quote of Charlie’s next to a quote of the Christchurch shooter’s, and I’d ask people to guess who said which. No one ever could
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Stuff was very eager to do a puff piece last year on this National MP "living the dream" but hasn't yet got around to reporting he hid 25 properties in a family trust. I'm sure they'll get onto it though. I fully expect* our media to hound him until he quits! */s
Stuff: "The first-term MP who's living the dream By Catherine Groenstein" About Carl Bates

ALT Stuff: "The first-term MP who's living the dream By Catherine Groenstein" About Carl Bates

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A power the media has is every time a politician wants to say something, or even appear in public, they can demand they address a lingering question, or else they won't platform the message the politician wants to get out. What's crazy is they have this power all the time.
Stuff: "Takuta Ferris breaks silence, refuses to apologise for 'racist' posts Despite his Te Pati Mãori co-leaders apologising for him, Takuta Ferris says he doesn't see anything wrong with his comments. He's tripling down. By Glenn McConnell"

ALT Stuff: "Takuta Ferris breaks silence, refuses to apologise for 'racist' posts Despite his Te Pati Mãori co-leaders apologising for him, Takuta Ferris says he doesn't see anything wrong with his comments. He's tripling down. By Glenn McConnell"

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Daily Indignation retweeted
BRYN_BORANGA@BRYN_BORANGA11 Sep 2025
For the first time in my life, I’m genuinely frightened about being a public sector worker.
Jeremy Clarkson
@JeremyClarkson10 Sep 2025
For the first time in my life, I’m genuinely frightened about being a newspaper columnist.
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Every NZ media outlet had to do a "who is Charlie Kirk?" story because they knew most of their audience had no idea who he was, but also if Seymour tells them his death "struck a chord with New Zealanders" they'll believe him and go running to the opposition for comment.
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Things Stuff could've asked Seymour: which New Zealanders? Do you support any of Kirk's positions, such as great replacement theory, ending the separation of church and state, that Martin Luther King Jr was a "bad man", opposing abortion for rape? Like, you have him right there.
Glenn McConnell, Stuff: "Acting Prime Minister David Seymour says the Opposition blocked an official motion in Parliament to pay respects to Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated in the US. Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Seymour said Kirk's death had "struck a chord with New Zealanders". "It's the bitter and tragic irony that a person promoting free speech, over political violence, was subject to political violence. This is resonating deeply with New Zealanders," he said."

ALT Glenn McConnell, Stuff: "Acting Prime Minister David Seymour says the Opposition blocked an official motion in Parliament to pay respects to Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated in the US. Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Seymour said Kirk's death had "struck a chord with New Zealanders". "It's the bitter and tragic irony that a person promoting free speech, over political violence, was subject to political violence. This is resonating deeply with New Zealanders," he said."

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Local media like Stuff is doing rolling coverage of Kirk like the pope just died, but either they have no idea what a extremist he was or know but want to launder his reputation for some reason. You're better off reading his Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli…
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