NZ Local Elections. Let's get this straight. Less than 40% of eligible voters voted in our recent local elections, the worst in recent years. Ten per cent had not even registered to vote, turnout in poor suburbs like Ōtara was exceptionally poor and the general turnout was over-weighted by white, wealthy and ageing males.Auckland and Christchurch lurched right but some 27 mayoralties were returned unchanged. Yet the media saw this as a harbinger of Labour's defeat in next year's general election thanks to inflation, the cost of living, the proposed three water legislation, Pākeha-Māori co-governance and the cost of housing. What you can see in a crystal ball if you shake it hard enough! Who now says the media is impartial?
The War in the Ukraine. On another front, the world media hailed the damage to the 19 km Kerch Bridge linking mainland Russia to the Crimean peninsula and the recent advances by the Ukrainian army, while paying little heed to the fact that the damage to the 4-lane road and 2-track rail bridge is now partly repaired (completed by Friday), and the recent Ukrainian advances total a land area only a little greater than that of Auckland city, a minuscular fraction of the Donbas.
It noted, however, in exended vivid detail that Russian shelling, in retailiation for the Kerch Bridge attack, unhoused and killed a number of civilians, including women and children, thereby leaving readers to think civilians and not infrastructure were the primary targets.
If you want a more balanced world picture, add Al Jazeera and Russian TV to your reading list.
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.rt.com/
-- ACW
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