Funnily enough, although I was raised in a Communist Household it was at Berkeley that I began to really open my eyes.

They won’t ever give us the truth on Palin of course. Why not? Because she’s a Republican for one thing, but worse, she’s a Conservative. So like every Conservative from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to Margaret Thatcher, to the slimy creeping little commie cowards filling the pages of the NZ Herald with their worthless crap and who dare to call themselves journalists, she’s a target.

Not satisfied with just bashing Palin at every opportunity, (see the editorial a few weeks ago, full of second rate left wing slander) they have to publish today an article by one of the biggest left wing pieces of journalistic shit out there. Leornard Doyle is a left wing arsehole. Why the fuck would what he thinks of Sarah Palin be worth more than a pinch of goat shit?? Why would any editor think that Leonard Doyle’s views on Sarah Palin would be more than an example of stinking rank politically partisan bigotry.? Christ I am just so sick of these contemptible lying manipulative left wing journalistic swine and their deceit. What a disgusting blight on the democratic process these vermin really are.

Ratty, Ratty, Ratty…

I’ve been against all sorts of PARTICULAR THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID that I think are a bit sh*t, but when have I ever been anti free speech?

BTW, apart from Jane Clifton, name the right wing journalists.

Surveys of this nature tend to be a combination of expectation and outcome. So, if I expect the Listener to be a bunch of feral lefty loons, and they turn out to be mildly left, I might give them a good score. It doesn’t mean they’re now right wing, just that they aren’t as left as I thought they would be. Similarly the NBR – if I expect them to publish everything I say because they should be supporting the right dammit, then I may take offense at even the slightest niggle.

Certainly there are some interesting outliers in there – but I wonder if they are an artefact of the small sample size (a couple of Nats with a bad experience with one journalist could drive the numbers quite a bit).

I am sure different questions would get different responses. To try and get participation up I tried to keep it as short as possible – just a simple overall 1 – 10.

What I would really like to do repeat the survey, but amongst media themselves!

Very true, but I’ll point to myself and give some hope for the future – the famously apathetic Generation X may just be beginning to wake up.

Here’s the last 4 paragraphs:

“The rule nowadays is that you cannot become the government unless you bow to the views of the ‘Centre-Left’ media elite, especially the broadcast media elite. That elite speaks for the 1968 generation which fanned out in the Seventies into the civil service, education, entertainment, the law, the arts, rock music and – above all – the media.

We no longer have elections where two evenly matched parties go into a fair contest with competing ideas and it is over only when the last vote is counted. Instead, we have wild swings in which the approved party goes into the Election with a giant poll lead and then wins the Election with a mad, crushingly enormous majority over the unapproved party.

And the winner is always the ‘Centre-Left’, which claims to be moderate but is in fact a swirling cauldron of wild Sixties Leftism – anti-British, anti-family, anti-Christian, anti-education and pro-crime.

But if you dare to oppose this stuff, they’ll call you an extremist. British democracy, as we used to know it, is quite dead. It just needs to have a new funeral every few years.”

Will attempt to post a link separately.

And yes some of the results were surprising. It isn’t a scientific sample, so I wouldn’t read too much into it, but the data I did get gives plenty of food for thought.

And if the TV vs internet divide sits on big vs small party lines, then does it mean that your sample is skewed towards minor parties? Come on David, fess up.

You’d like it to be put to bed wouldn’t you you anti free speech communist ghoul?

Quite possible, but more likely that they’re just too frightened to say what they really think. The Nats have always been hopelessly cowed by the media. Its one of the main reasons the left are so socially ascendant.

The Nats seem so infuriatingly reluctant to come to grips with the fact the NZ’s media are by and large an extension of the Labour Party, or the global socialist movement. National politicians never (in my experience) even use the word socialism. Never even utter any criticism of it as a political concept. Never even use the term leftist. Or communist. So afraid of offending the left’s de facto cultural police (the mainstream media). So intimidated by the ploy of political correctness. So hopelessly behind the times. So out of touch with NZ’s working middle class. Too timid to even say what people are begging them to say. A bunch of disgusting eternally disappointing wimps.

By rights this SHOULD once and for all put to bed the near-constant whinging from some quarters about how our “socialist” state broadcaster is “a mouthpiece for” or “in the pocket of” or “just a bunch of sycophants of” the Gummint…?