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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 11h

"My co-worker Mike Hosking skewered the Labour leader with incorrect figures! I declare this a draw!" Honestly, Audrey Young continues to be a parody of herself.

Audrey Young, NZ Herald: "One-all on housing

Hipkins was aggressive, but so was Hosking. He tried to skewer Hipkins on how a capital gains tax would raise what Labour had calculated, given that the Treasury has since slashed forecasts for house price growth. Hipkins said his economic advisers had told him the Treasury forecasts were more than the 3% average over the forecast period, but Hosking insisted otherwise.

Like Ginny Andersen lecturing Mark Mitchell in recent weeks on how “wrong” he was about transport funding, Hosking lectured Hipkins about how he had been wrongly advised. “The forecasts tell you very clearly the 3% is not there.”

Only they don’t. The forecast for the next four June years (including the current one) is for an average 3.12% growth in house prices. The forecast over the four years beginning in the 2027-28 financial year – when the CGT would kick in – is 3.75%. Hosking skewered Hipkins, but it was on the basis of incorrect figures. Hipkins wasn’t familiar enough with the numbers to have skewered Hosking. One-all. Hipkins has since familiarised himself with the forecasts that back up what he was told by his advisers."

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't really want the guy who makes sure Mike Hosking is happy running our public service broadcaster. The country's a much better place when Hosking is fucking miserable.

Media Insider, NZ Herald: "‘Staino’ is a man on the move, splitting his workday between the first-floor NZ Herald-Newstalk ZB newsroom and the ground-floor suite of entertainment radio stations.

The first two hours of his day are what I’d describe as the “Hosking Hours” – he’s at the ZB desks, earpods in, listening to what’s coming out of the breakfast show, and making sure the country’s biggest radio talent is, indeed, having a happy day.

“Anything you need?” Winstanley often calls across to Hosking as the broadcaster heads towards the door shortly after 9am. Sometimes there’s a bit of banter; the answer is invariably no."

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By the Daily Mail and the Telegraph. Who Stuff chooses to promote, and call "less liberal" publications than the BBC. But I can understand why a news site run by Lloyd Burr would want to quickly stamp down on any suggestion of white supremacy.

Stuff:
BBC story on class and race issues in bare nail trend called 'the most absurd story ever' 23 mins ago

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am so glad TVNZ decided to hire Jason, because he really showed he who was at NewstalkZB, and that was a right-wing jerk who loved to punch down (naturally), but also someone who was really bad at his supposed job of decoding politics for the public. Like, he was ALWAYS wrong.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's okay everyone! Chief ass-coverer Audrey Young has decided Luxon was only saying "cry me a river" to Hipkins, not about the subject Hipkins was talking about. Because it's not like Luxon has a history of openly not caring about ordinary Kiwis... oh wait I'm hearing he has a long history of it

Audrey Young, NZ Herald: "Luxon’s sarcastic boo-hoo response, “cry me a river”, was clearly aimed at Hipkins, but Labour has decided that two can play the “bull****” game and is depicting it as Luxon’s attitude to ordinary Kiwis.

This is what went down in Parliament.

Hipkins: “When real wages have fallen, power prices have gone up, insurance prices have gone up, rates have gone up, insurance has gone up – all by more than 20%, under his leadership, in just the last two years – will he now admit that the cost-of-living crisis is not only not over; it’s getting worse under his leadership?”

Luxon: “What I’d say, again – you know, cry me a river”.

This is how that exchange ended up in Hipkins’ speech: “You can choose a Prime Minister who will fight to get your costs down. Or a Prime Minister whose response to rising prices was ‘cry me a river’. "

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When the hivemind that is the press gallery collectively choose not to make something an issue, not only does the public suffer, everyone in media does too. I'm not surprised RNZ's "relentlessly curious" host Kathryn Ryan hasn't heard about Luxon's comments, because she reads the same news we do.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It sure does say "something" that National’s tax attack lies have been effective, but what it says is our institutions – like the one you're inexplicitly the Senior Political Correspondent for, Audrey – have utterly failed at their job.

Audrey Young, NZ Herald: "National was not just telling lies about Labour’s tax plans, it was “bull****”, Hipkins said.

It says something about the effectiveness of National’s tax attack that he needed to resort to swearing to get attention, but it worked."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was actually fine when Obama tried to freeze Fox out, because Fox is not a legitimate news organization, and the fact that a CNN anchor, of all people, thinks they're equivalent is one reason CNN has lower ratings than a test pattern. Also, this is...not dignified.

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe if the gallery had reported it eh? Also who is meant to be the left-wing balance here, ex National staffer Thomas or ex NZFirst minister Martin?

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weird how RNZ's word count can't extend to telling the reader which minister this 'non partisan' parents alliance group head worked for.. #nzpol

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Journalists are crowing 'what's new?!' because they have forgotten that there is a second draft of history, and don't seem to recognise that a book like this, is it. This govt has literally forced the TPU into the *school curriculum* in its ideological vandalism, well here's the primary reference.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who is this book for? Journalists? It is for the public, to have summarised in one place, the story of an influential lobby group with the context, analysis and moral judgment that our gallery reporters have no incentive to provide.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Become Stuff's newest opinion columnist! I hear you can do book reviews without even reading the book.

Stuff:

The next great voice

Are you the next Matthew Hooton or Verity Johnson? Well then, tell us

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not surprised the media’s reaction to Dirty Work is reflexive protectionism, as the same thing happened with Dirty Politics. Key difference is back then awful people used journalists to surreptitiously launch bad-faith attacks, whereas now, they get their own columns. It’s all out in the open.

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That these 2 guys can dismiss the book as 'business as usual' tells us a shitload about their warped perspective on NZ politics and the infiltration of lobbyists. It also insults their listeners, who care deeply about the influence of corporate money, esp when it's ramping up racism and dividing us

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LIP @l11p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the level of opinion column Stuff thinks you deserve

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is like when Trump won and some banker said he was happy he could say slurs again. Maybe when Seymour’s PM Oliver!

The Guardian: it lacks the elegance of "greed is good", but as a distillation of the spirit of the age, it's right up there. "I feel liberated," a top banker told the Financial Times shortly after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 US presidential election. "We can say 'retard' and
'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"After all, we give them a platform every day!"

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okaaay... but do YOU wanna give me some context, Stuff? You're the *news* site, right? Nevermind, I'll leave your site to find out.

Stuff:
WATCH: TV pundit becomes sensation... for turning his head (that's really it)
September 24, 2026

Rory Stewart, UK academic and former MP, has gone viral for rapidly towards fellow panellist Ailbhe Rea and staring at her on BBC's Newsnight. That's literally all there is to this video.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well that’s because the media decided the Stanford thing wasn’t a scandal. bsky.app/profile/dail...

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

is it possible to explode from hypocrisy

NewstalkZB:
Opinion > Ryan Bridge: Don't believe everything you read

23 Sep 2026

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And BTW every one of those quotes being used is intentional because they know most people only read the headline and that's what they want the takeaway to be.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I find it fascinating that NZME's Thomas Coughlan causally acknowledges that people in the media – incl him! – know the TPU is dodgy as shit and Jordan Williams is "crass". Because this is the same guy who reprints TPU talking points and attacks bloggers who were formerly in the Labour party.

"The first allegation, that the TPU has taken money from tobacco companies, is a matter of record and has been known since at least 2019.

The book is a scathing takedown of Williams as a person and political operative. Much of this may be new to the public who do not always follow politics closely, but little will be new to the political world. These people, their relationships and activities are public knowledge and have been written about in mainstream media. It’s no secret that Williams is somewhat crass on social media."

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look, I get it: if you're RNZ, to appear "balanced" so NZME's Shayne Currie doesn't write a hysterical article about your liberal bias, you platform known bad faith actors. But you know not informing your audience of their true goals is bad, right? You know Currie won't be happy until you're dead?

RNZ: "Hager also criticised the media's role, suggesting it contributed to poor transparency.

"Despite all their undeclared political machinations, both Farrar and Williams are often interviewed uncritically in the mainstream media - far more often than most genuinely independent experts and commentators.

"At the time of writing, for instance, Radio New Zealand had interviewed Farrar about 600 times since 2007, an astonishing amount of coverage considering that he is one of the least independent people available. He is often introduced with labels such as 'polling company maestro', while Williams is given labels such as 'anti-waste campaigner'. It is lazy journalism.""

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Talking about “polarization” is not only a lazy euphemism to avoid talking about the far right authoritarianism. It’s also mostly a lie, repeated over & over again in polite society & the newspapers, despite overwhelming evidence that large supermajorities of Americans agree on all kinds of things.

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David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Deborah Russell knitting during QT got more critical coverage than Paul Henry calling the Greens subhuman and Christopher Luxon's "cry me a river" combined. #nzpol

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hope Nicky gave equal right of reply to his subject! It’s not journalism otherwise! (This is a reference to NZ Herald Political Editor Thomas Coughlan once claiming this is what Nicky Hager should do for the TPU. In his books. Therefore revealing he doesn’t know what his actual job is.)

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NewstalkZB now further to the right than Fox News

Acyn
@Acyn • Sep 16
Watters: What did he say that was bad? Free Palestine? Is that all? I don't think that's hate speech.
All I heard was free palestine.
MLACKLEMORE OFF SHEERAN TOUR AFTER ANTI-ISRAEL RANT
INEO:23
THE FIVE
3:33 AM • Sep 16, 2026 • 9,539 Views

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the same press gallery that ignored David Seymour – deputy PM and architect of the school lunches disaster –telling NZers they should “economise” and eat less bread comes another slam dunk story of a out-of-touch right-wing politician they for some reason don't all pounce on.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mike Hosking joins Tommy Robinson in support of Ed Sheeran, compounding what must be the worst week of Ed's life.

Mike's Minute: What a week of angst it's been
Image of Ed Sheeran and Macklemore
18 Sep 2026

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'll only watch this if you PROMISE it ends like the ending of 'Thelma & Louise'.

NZ Herald:
WATCH: Taika Waititi & Ryan Bridge sing Rita Ora hit in wild car ride

18 Sep

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NewstalkZB's new brand platform is "Every View from Every Angle" (seriously) which you can see here, where literally every presenter they have is against National's policy to break up the supermarket duopoly.

John MacDonald: What's with National going anti-business? Thu, 17 Sep 2026, 12:45pm

Ryan Bridge: Nicola's supermarket bust up isn't serious Thu, 17 Sep 2026, 6:04am

Mike's Minute: Supermarket and price gouging policies are fanciful Thu, 17 Sep 2026, 10:14am

Perspective with Heather du Plessis- Allan: The National Party should know better when it comes to business Wed, 16 Sep 2026, 6:54pm

Kerre Woodham: I am perplexed by National's supermarket plan @ Thu, 17 Sep 2026, 111pm

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RNZ is literally doing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with politicians. I hope she ruffled his hair.

Maccas, Dire Straits and no fighting:
A road trip with David Seymour

The ACT party leader opens up about his childhood, aspirations and wedding plans in the first episode of Power Steering.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another "why's it called 'savings' rather than 'what it cost people' when National do it?" to throw on the giant pile marked Hypocrisy from the NZ Herald.

Politics
How much the Govt could save from public sector job cuts and redundancy payouts

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The govt cut KiwiSaver subsidies last year & I predicted there'd be no backlash because the people in charge of creating a backlash – the media, incl ol' Tommy here – would just ignore it. Call me Nostra-fucking-damus. Instead we get constant stories at how great the govt's KiwiSaver policies are

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What does the highlighted part have to do with the paragraphs proceeding it? Nothing! But when you work for the NZ Herald and right-wing propaganda runs in your veins, you probably don't even notice when you insert lies into your copy.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

giuliani: "Muslims have every desire to take us over. They want to dominate us." news media: "Some have characterized Giuliani's comments as anti-Muslim."

ABC:
Mamdani is expected to become the first Muslim mayor to attend the city's official 9/11 remembrance ceremony, though nearly every New York City mayor before him has participated in the event.

The debate intensified over the weekend when former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaking on Newsmax, said he would be offended if Mamdani attended the ceremony. Giuliani also made claims that critics and others have described as baseless, including suggesting the mayor does not believe the Sept. 11 attacks were acts of terrorism. Some have characterized Giuliani's comments as anti-Muslim.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since only journalists don't seem to understand this: it's not his "honesty" that's the problem. It's that he calls people slurs, he's racist and homophobic. He literally just said the Greens are "barely people". If he receives criticism it's for his clearly expressed views.

The Spinoff:

One Candidate, One Pint: Paul Henry on never giving a shit what anyone thinks The Act candidate on 'bloody stupid' liquor laws, and whether he'll 'tone down' his trademark honesty in parliament.

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith Politics reporter

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Right-wingers like Mike Hosking will only be happy when the country is just cold, grey concrete. Hopefully ones he can drive his wanker car on. I get the feeling the only art Mike likes is classical Roman.

There's a battle of the ideologies on display as ACT looks to cut art spending on roading projects. It's very ACT, i.e. fiscally disciplined. Every $1 million on roading needs to be $1 million on roading, not 99% on roads and 1% on art. The art is an issue for several reasons, mainly for me because most of it is unimpressive. I'm not actually against art per se. I like art. I prefer private operators to pay for it, but I wouldn't die in the ditch trying to cut it. On our way home on the new highway north of Auckland there are a bunch of Mãori soldiers or chiefs, sort of metal cutouts that are rusted. It's a look. I don't like it, which is the other bit about art. It's fraught. There is also obviously an overt Mãori fixation around it. There's not a lot of Siddell's or Sydney's about the place. There are more conceptual, race-based interpretations that you might argue may not get a lot of commissions if it wasn't for the NZTA. I think the inescapable conclusion is art is for better days, more affluent times, in countries that have productivity levels way better than ours and that have handled their finances better than ours. Art is a reward, not a must have.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you want a cheap lesson in media framing, check out how the never-labelled-as-right-wing Taxpayers’ Union poll is positioned by them, then watch as our serious news outlets cut out the "CommieMart 🤡" bit but keep the "Labour drops" bit. BTW The Greens had the biggest rise in this poll, up 3.8%.

Taxpayer Update: NEW POLL Labour, Opportunity Take A Tumble 4 | Chlöe's CommieMart |LGNZ Employs Bogus Rates-Cap Numbers

NZ Herald: Labour drops to 25.9% in new poll, Opportunity below 5%

Stuff: Labour loses support as Opportunity falls below 5% in latest poll

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You see the difference, right? Corporate media is not working for you.

1News: Greens propose new supermarket chain in bid to cut grocery costs 20 mins ago

The New Zealand Herald: Greens promise to nationalise 120 supermarkets, costing $2.8 billion

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just updating on the latest nanny herald clickbait debt story. Same old tired myths... Govt books destroyed by the pandemic (they got stronger by the most sensible measure), Super is unaffordable (it isn't), and zero mention of the real drivers of the fiscal deficit. Let's dive in... [1/n]

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