nz's slipping main-stream media

Lastest poll shows NZF under 4% and would be out. Maoris also under 4% stay in,is it due to maori seats that labour once held?

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was irked by questions from journalists following the Government’s announcement of funding for free school lunches on Wednesday, making a dig at a reporter for asking about what foods were and were not “woke”.

“It’s all the big questions from TVNZ today, isn’t it? Fantastic,” Luxon said in response to a question about whether there was such a thing as “woke food”.

The term “woke food” was lobbed into the debate about free school lunches by the Act Party’s X (formerly Twitter) account, which said: “We’ll be doing more with less money to feed kids the fruit and sandwiches their parents would, not woke food like quinoa and sushi.”

In response, Luxon said: “I’d just say, given everything that’s going on in this country, do you think that is the most sensible question to be asking?”

When told that it was language that Act had been using, Luxon said “and that’s news?”

“Is it news today? Do you think that’s a really smart question - honestly?” he responded to the reporter.

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am surprised that 'micky mouse' didn't run with this as "breaking news"

so glad i'm not paying for the hearld's biased crap

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/christopher-luxon-in-a-huff-after-questions-over-woke-food-distraction-from-coalition-partner-act/SKHUJWS3T5GYLIXQDJ4JCYF4UE/

I love how the MSM filter stuff.
My father was going on about how much of a c*nt Seymour is because of this and that, cancelling school lunches etc - fairly sure Dad voted for him, but that is another story.

Asked Dad, do you know how much a lunch costs? he didn't.
He had a fit when I said $8 each (average), reckons that is twice what his lunch cost.

Exactly.
Fully sucked in by the MSM.

Typical Labour, fully overspec the lunches with hot cooked meals. All they need is a sandwich and fruit. Boom. Nat/ACT doing it for $3each.
I strongly support school lunches, break the poverty cycle, kids can't learn on an empty stomach etc, but $8 each for a mass produced (not bespoke) lunch was WAAAAYYYYY over-spec'ed.

Cam Slater on TVNZ
thebfd.co.nz/2024/06/05/if-tvnz-was-a-dog-wed-put-it-down/
citing The Ferald
TVNZ is expecting a financial loss of up to $33 million this financial year – more than double what it originally expected – with a “significant” impairment to also hit the state broadcaster.
It announced today it expected underlying operational losses of between $28m and $33m this financial year, which runs until June 30, following “challenging marketing conditions” in the second half.
TVNZ had been originally forecasting a $15.6m loss this financial year. But it was already behind the eight ball when it posted its half-year results to December 31 – a $4.6m operational loss for the six months, with a $12.2m impairment.
In addition to the underlying operational losses, TVNZ’s full-year result would include a significant impairment “acknowledging the impact TVNZ’s forecasted future earnings will have on its asset valuation”, the broadcaster said in a statement today.
It did not state the size of the impairment.

Slater comments
Of course revenues are down, and I’ll tell you why. They’ve been lying about their audience numbers and advertisers have rumbled them about it.

You see, if you claim audience numbers are still high, then advertisers know that if they spend a certain amount on advertising then they’ll get a defined and proven return on that spending.

But the sales revenue for advertisers has dropped. The only logical explanation is that the audience has changed and dropped, and it is now increasingly found online. So advertisers have walked along with the audience.

TVNZ is likely terminal, and propping it up is pouring good money after bad.

Shoot it like you would a dog that won’t hunt.

and Jack Tame gets $800k??

Hey Muzled, how do you add an X tweet to a post per above?
thanks CZ