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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 13h

Headline vs reality.

SFGate:
Bay Area 'Death to Spotify' event sells out within 24 hours

'People are really aching to speak about this,' one of the organizers said

Picture of the tiny venue that sold out. It held 40 people.

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 1d

Would love to see this done for NZ media.

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 1d

You can see the absolute rage Bridge has for Swarbrick here. Last time I saw him this angry was when Michael Wood accused him of making excuses for the violent anti-mandate protesters (which, to be clear, he was). He really hates the left challenging his lil bubble of contempt.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2d

Just to clarify my position. Ryan Bridges must be sacked.

"here's a chick who..."

A fucking woman you Hosking wannabe amateur misogynist hack.

The whole interview was a disgrace, but even teenagers know this isn't how you speak these days if you want to be respected.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 2d

There’s all sorts of ways you can frame the same story, isn’t there.

RNZ: Actor who shared Peters' address online says she regrets doing so

Acacia O'Connor claims the NZ First leader is now using the incident as a "diversion tactic".

NZ Herald:
Activist actor doesn't think protest actions were wrong after Peters' house attacked

The activist said the demonstrators were 'not being threatening'.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 5d

weird how the actual answer, "he has been a habitual liar his entire life," is never considered here

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Was he telling the truth before? Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier? Is he just trolling all of us? | Analysis

Analysis: Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 | CNN Politics

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 5d

Its wild how absolutely horsewhipped our media elite are by Trump

George Pearkes @peark.es · 5d

Absolutely insane push notification lol

Bloomberg Today
23m ago
Donald Trump said it will be "a big insult" if he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. Some fear the outcome if he's overlooked.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 6d

Begging media folk to do their job here.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 8d

The most interesting part of this to me is the Media Council acknowledging the story came from a group with an agenda and that media should therefore be wary of that agenda and work to counter it in their stories. This might be news to quite a few journos.

Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 8d

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST*

The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

Parker et al against Radio New Zealand

If you have a complaint about the editorial content of a newspaper, magazine or periodical in circulation in New Zealand (including their websites) you may complain to the Media Council.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 9d

Because that’s how it always works? Media is “leaked” (given) stories to shape the public narrative and the media knows and goes along with it. The letter was never meant for Hipkins.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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DNAhhhh!😱 @dnaustin.bsky.social · 10d

and they say journalism is dead

Vice article headline: The First Buttholes Might Have Been for Sperm Instead of Poop

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 15d

Meanwhile NZ outlets can’t even be bothered changing “Tylenol” in their headlines so most of their audience wouldn’t know he’s talking about paracetamol.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

NZME's Ryan Bridge's examples of "extreme, radical ideas" a political party could campaign on are... a separate Māori parliament, and re-nationalising power companies.

Mmm, very scary, Ryan.

"The difference this time is how extreme some of the smaller parties, more to the point, some of their MPs, have become - think Takuta on Indians and Simon Court on Palestine.

It’s not just rhetoric, but policy, too.

A separate Māori parliament, re-nationalising power companies, you name it, they'll go there."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22d

He has three sons

New York Post ‹
@nypost
X.com
Eric Trump says dad saw Charlie Kirk like *a second son' — and calls his assassination 'the biggest mistake' for left trib.al/cfXpYbW

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22d

it’s insane how mainstream media still uniformly acts like 2024 was a watershed, Reaganesque societal turning point when it’s obvious ~15% of Americans just swung it because they thought there actually was a “make eggs cheaper” button Joe Biden was refusing to hit.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22d

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

The reason for the perceived lack of pressure is because this story has been driven by RNZ, who largely don’t do opinion. If NZME set its pack of commentators and political editors on her (instead of defending Costello, which they have), she’d be gone tomorrow.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

Maybe, although Stuff didn’t exactly bury this - it’s in a fairly prominent position on their site. But also whatever you’re paying for the Telegraph isn’t worth it (unless you WANT your site to be full of right wing culture war engagement bait)

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

Why, you may ask, is a NZ news org like Stuff reporting some fake outrage about a mayor of a small London town with a population of 12,186? Because Stuff chooses to carry culture war bullshit from The Telegraph, a right-wing UK paper. Decide for yourself if this is newsworthy.

Stuff: "‘Lack of respect’: British mayor criticised for wearing Hawaiian shirt to military event"

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

(And of course, NZME has treated the Tim Jago story all along as being about name suppression or historic abuse crimes, and not addressed at all the political scandal of current deputy PM David Seymour's role in protecting him)

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 22d

I enjoyed this picture on NZ Herald of all the media stories about former Act Party president Tim Jago because not a single one is from the NZ Herald.

(It's all RNZ and one via the NZME-owned regional paper Hawke's Bay Today)

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 22d

NZ media outlets using "racism allegations" headlines to attack Te Pāti Māori while ignoring the daily racist fuckery uttered and enacted by the govt, then whining about Rawiri Waititi speaking in te reo ... is actually pretty racist [1/3]

#nzpol

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23d

Add local NZ media to this list: Kirk Coverage Downplayed MAGA's Culture of Violence - fair.org/home/kirk-co...

Kirk Coverage Downplayed MAGA’s Culture of Violence

The right-wing movement Kirk was a crucial part of has played the leading role in dehumanizing others and normalizing violence.

fair.org

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23d

I get it, Ryan: your right-wing government is turning out to be really shit and you're panicking. Blaming workers is of course how you keep your job at NewstalkZB. But you'll be alright, bro. You always fall upwards.

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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 23d

Ryan also complains about the "banner wavers" (I think he's talking about protesting nurses & teachers) preventing doing business in NZ from being as easy as possible. We already top measures of ease of business. Ryan is full of it.

"And that means doing what the banner wavers of the world hate most - getting roadblocks and innovation-killers like government out of the way.

Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible. Let smart people be smart people and do what they do best: invent, optimise, invest, grow, thrive."

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