The Ministry of Strewth ❌

Checking for fairness, accuracy and balance, and finding these consistently absent at partisan NZME.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Just a friendly reminder that libraries are free.

Not “free trial” free.
Not “free with ads” free.
Not “free if you give us all of your data” free.

But free free.

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@rodemmerson Yep, time for him to go alright.

[king of the west II @meco78526]

Imagine the outrage & blanket coverage it would be 24/7 for weeks had it been a labour policy advisor

Natstalkzb would be feral & screaming for blood
Demanding accountability
Demanding resignations
Demanding a royal commission

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@NZNationalParty Does that include cracking down on corruption, to make our democracy safer?

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

https://t.co/sSUfth6Gzi

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland @nzherald @NZNationalParty https://t.co/gA38KrvDIR
@NZStuff and @rnz_news versions of this read much more like actual news stories than @nzherald 's 22 paragraphs of National Party press release, with token Opposition comment from @chrishipkins right at the end.
#NZMEWhereNatsRideForFree
#OnceWereReporters

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

https://t.co/fUyadGuP8c

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland Sadly, but predictably, @nzherald 's Thomas Coughlan simply provides a summary of Luxon's spin here, and readers have to plough through 22 paragraphs before Coughlan finally provides a couple of token sentences from Chris Hipkins, for "balance".
Contrast partisan NZME with (1/2)

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

https://t.co/dtN1luXfam

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland @nzherald more objective news outlets, and NZME's ongoing bias is woefully apparent. NZME ignored this story for as long as they could, and are now attempting to manage @NZNationalParty 's PR through their partisan tabloid.
#OnceWereReporters
https://t.co/iTnVe9YwIv
https://t.co/gA38KrvDIR

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland @nzherald @NZNationalParty https://t.co/gA38KrvDIR
@NZStuff and @rnz_news versions of this read much more like actual news stories than @nzherald 's 22 paragraphs of National Party press release, with token Opposition comment from @chrishipkins right at the end.
#NZMEWhereNatsRideForFree
#OnceWereReporters

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland @nzherald more objective news outlets, and NZME's ongoing bias is woefully apparent. NZME ignored this story for as long as they could, and are now attempting to manage @NZNationalParty 's PR through their partisan tabloid.
#OnceWereReporters
https://t.co/iTnVe9YwIv
https://t.co/gA38KrvDIR

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@SimeonBrownMP https://t.co/3mr5FaXxuD

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

For services to the @NZNationalParty , more like.
The fermented old cyclops has done nothing but spin his bombastic boom for the reactionary right in years and years.
#OnceWereReporters
#Soperganda
#BarelySober

[king of the west II @meco78526]

WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT HONOR

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@meco78526 For services to the @NZNationalParty , more like.

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

What a time to be alive.

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

"People move between think tanks and politics all the time. But in this case the overlap is unusually direct: the policy area, the corporate interests, the ETS argument, hostility to court-led climate accountability, & the subsequent law change all point in the same direction."

[Bryce Edwards @bryce_edwards]

https://t.co/6PR0pB32Eo

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@annafifield Patsy much?
Yuck.
#OnceWereReporters

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@GregPresland Two nuts in a bag.

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

Great to see someone calling out the increasingly anti-democratic relationship between @NZNationalParty and NZME, as @nzherald and @NewstalkZB seek to dominate the media with a grossly partisan agenda.
#NZMEWhereNatsRideForFree
#OnceWereReporters

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

Given the National Party has very close ties to the Board and senior staff at NZ Herald, the cuts to RNZ are really an attempt to weaken a competitor and reduce media diversity.

[The Ministry of Strewth ❌ @Fearfacts]

@actparty Cutting jobs resuls in more jobs, huh?
Did you learn that logic at Atlas School, with your fake-arse Canadian accent?
#Doubleplusgood
#Pedoganda

[king of the west II @meco78526]

@RusselNorman Rutherford was press secretary
Forbes was deputy
Burgess was policy advisor