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An Appeal To The Left

This is a repost of an article I wrote on social media. It was published before this week’s announcement of TVNZ cuts.

I often reflect on how much hysteria there was around Golriz Ghahraman - journalists parked outside her home for a week after she admitted fault.

The hyper-attention and headlines the media maintained for days on end, despite Golriz’s admissions and the justice system running its course.

Yet contrast that with Casey Costello - who has been successfully avoiding all media except friendly right wing platforms.

A few designer dresses is newsworthy but setting aside $216mn of taxpayers money for a global tobacco company is not?

And omitting $46bn of benefits to NZ from her smoke-free generation repeal paper isn’t worth a pursuit - even though tobacco and heated tobacco products will likely kill Kiwis, and burden our health system inexorably?

What about the pass media give to Luxon on his innumerable lies - and at this point there’s a lot of them e.g. the 22% Y8 Maths statis…