But before we go, we'd like to give a special shout out to the Waikato Times, who decided last week that it had eaten enough of the bullshit shoveled its way by the local council, and bit back against snide, unwarranted moans of 'fake news' with an accurate, factual and beautifully bitchy rant from the mighty Wayne Timmo.
One of the main reasons this blog exists in the first place is because the journalists involved have to bite their tongues every fucking day, in order to maintain a modicum of dignity, professionalism and self-respect. Reporters and editors are regularly seeing government organisations, at both local and national level, complain on social media and their own websites that the media is being mean to them, by reporting something that has happened.
Journalists can get by on the smug satisfaction that they're right - if you don't see a hasty correction after these sorts of complaints, you can guarantee those complaints are as worthless as a soap bubble in a hurricane - and almost always don't bother engaging with the fucks who have denigrated their professionalism, because that leads down a rabbit hole of shite.
But every now and then, a particularly egregious example will come alone, and someone like Timmo won't let it stand, and even though they can let the facts speak for themselves, they can also stand up for truth, facts, and all those annoying little realities.
The general public might look at it as typical media myopia, but for all those journos who have struggled to get decent information out of the local authorities, only to have those officials turn around and shoot the messenger for doing their fuckin' job, it's nice to know you're not alone in the frustration.
Fuck it, we're off to contemplate the complex nature of New Zealand's racial divides, and the institutionalised prejudices that have been slapping down our indigenous people for decades, while jumping into the ocean. It's the day for it, after all.
- Perry White
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