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The soon-to-be deputy PM knew his party president was a sexual predator and the media doesn't care

I think one of the dumbest things you can do is complain that the media isn't covering some story, because nine times out of ten you’ll be immediately presented with a link to a media story covering the thing you just said wasn't being covered. There's lots of reasons why 'the media' (which isn't even some monolith hivemind thing, but, y’know, it’s quicker than saying ‘the owners and editors of corporate, ad-driven media outlets’) choose what to cover and how to cover it. But what that complaint is normally trying to say is “why am I not seeing THIS story everywhere, unlike [insert opposite political belief] which was EVERYWHERE”. It’s often a hard thing to pin down, because normally some outlet IS covering your story, but they’re smaller or the big guys have done one or two stories on it and it’s gone from their front page, and you missed it. I think what the complaint is actually trying to express is “why isn’t this being saturated everywhere?”. And that is because of the number one reason for the historical low levels of trust in the media (imo): opinion.

To recap: Tim Jago was the president of the ACT Party – a right-wing party that’s currently part of the coalition government of New Zealand – before resigning in January 2023. That story didn’t even hint that the reason for his resignation was because of any legal or criminal issue – his departure email was leaked to Stuff, who reported it straight.

In August 2024, the media reported a “prominent former political figure” was found guilty of indecent assault of two teenage boys in the 1990s. Because of ongoing name suppression, they couldn’t say who he was or what party he was associated with, but if you went on Twitter or Reddit, you could find out pretty easily. So if I knew, the media knew (that’s important). But, thanks to high-powered lawyers and deep pockets, Jago managed to keep his name out of the press through the 2023 election, which was likely the goal (which, again, the media knew).

Now, suppression has been lifted and his name can be revealed. Note the time that story was published: 5:49 pm on 31 January 2025. That was a Friday. As Mike Hosking once put it: “Fridays are for dumping bad news, and hoping everyone forgets about it over the weekend. But there is no chance something this big will have been forgotten over the weekend.” Sage words, Mike, and of course words that won't expose you as a hypocrite in a few paragraphs.

So here’s the bit where I say: why isn’t the media covering this?

Of course, the media is covering it – it’s how I know about it! But that umbrella term ‘the media’ isn’t doing us any favours here. RNZ, the state-funded broadcaster, has done quite a few stories on the Jago revelations, from the initial news of his name being allowed to be published, to smart follow-ups with survivors and legal experts. 1News, state-owned but commercially funded, has also done some original reporting on the case, including talking to a survivor.

But NZME? Owner of The NZ Herald and NewstalkZB and 50 other media brands? They have done zero original reporting on this case. They’ve carried the initial RNZ story and ACT’s defence and that’s it. As Mike would put, the story has been forgotten.

People are comparing the coverage (or lack of) of Jago to Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, who was convicted of shoplifting a year ago and was recently splashed back all over the news for another shoplifting accusation, which proved to be false and a pretty obvious right-wing smear. Yes, the media fell for that, and their coverage was unfair and over-the-top. I get the compulsion to compare her far lesser crime of shoplifting (and not-even shoplifting!) with Jago’s far more serious crime of sexual assault. But there’s a better comparison.

In 2019, the Labour Party president, Nigel Haworth, resigned over his handling of allegations of sexual assault. This was covered extensively by the media at the time, as it should be – it’s a serious accusation and it was happening in real time. The ultimate outcome of that case was that no sexual assaults could be established but, to be honest, that’s incidental. What the media focused on was what did the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, know, and when did she know it? The classic journalist trope: it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.

But aside from the hard news reports, we also got a whole lot of opinion. This is what’s missing in the Tim Jago reporting. There’s been no opinion. Granted, did I expect NewstalkZB’s cabal of propagandists like Mike Hosking, Heather du Plessis-Allan, Barry Soper, Ryan Bridge, Kerre Woodham et al to actually engage with a story where their favourite political party was found to be hiding a paedo? No, I did not. But I thought they’d at least come out in defence of ACT and David Seymour. But not even that. Just… silence. I wonder if they talked about it at WIP on Monday morning or if it was just silently understood? After all, you do this for long enough, orders don't even need to be given.

NewstalkZB's entire Tim Jago coverage

And what about the supposedly-neutral political editors at other outlets who went hard on the Labour scandal like Jo Moir, Claire Trevett, and Audrey Young, not to mention those at Stuff or The Post? Nada. Not a word.

See, here’s what the journos and editors will be telling themselves: there’s no news here. The Jago offences were historical, he’s been found guilty, name suppression being lifted is all there is to report. But look at the angle of some of those Labour opinion pieces. One uses an opposition MP’s comments in Parliament as an angle to accuse Labour MPs of involvement in the cover-up (never proven). One uses the fact the party president resigned as an angle of saying that’s not good enough and the story will continue (How? By the media writing more opinion pieces about it! It really is a human centipede of shit.). A LOT of them try to pin the scandal on the leader of the party, Ardern, and how it’s indicative of a greater problem within the party. These are all self-generated “news” stories. Nothing has really happened, but the media has driven the story further because… ??? Well, I don’t wanna accuse them of bias, so I’ll just “ask questions”.

Now might be a good time to mention that ACT Party leader and soon-to-be deputy PM David Seymour was told Jago was a "sexual predator" nearly three months before Jago stood down from the role.

Also David Seymour referred the complainants to an employment lawyer.

Also David Seymour was once caught Snapchatting school children (yes, that is Barry Soper defending him).

Those are three angles you could take on this story, and those are just the facts we know about. Imagine what you might discover if you actually, y’know, investigated. But for some reason, our media just isn't interested in this particular scandal. Wonder why.

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Compilation of Eric Bogosian exposing Jam

He keeps saying the most ambiguous things about Jacob and Sam relationship 🤣 (at this point i feel that even the cast is praying for an affair).

The wildest things he said so far was "i've never seen two actors in a company behave the way these 2 guys behave" (he is old af and with so many projects and he never saw something like that in his many years of career?! 🤨 so it have to be worse than just an affair), "i don't wanna characterize what goes on between them"💀 and "the only difference between these two and their characters is that I've never seen them fight" (excuse me sir 🤨 that can't possible be the only "F" word that you never saw them doing 😱💀)

Videos: newstalkzb - Eric Bogosian Talking about Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson Chemistry, The Paley Center for Media - Interview With the Vampire at PaleyFest Fall TV Previews 2022, Interview with the Vampire Press Conference at SDCC 2022, Screen Rant Plus -Interview With The Vampire: San Diego Comic-Con 2022 and The 92nd Street Y New York 'Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire' Season 2: Cast and Creators in Conversation

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'Without him she'd be a waitress': Samantha Markle says Meghan needs to apologise to her father Thomas and be thankful for the 'amazing life' he has given her

By Jackson Barron For Daily Mail Australia - January 30th 2020, 7:17:47 am

Samantha Markle hit out at her sister over her split from the Royal Family, claiming she had no remorse for the grief and anguish her actions have had on her family.

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Samantha Markle says Meghan would be a waitress without her father

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Samantha Markle says Meghan would be a waitress without her father during interview with NewstalkZB in New Zealand

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Should the New Zealand Voting Age Be Lowered to 16?

  A post made by the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand that was published on Facebook talks about how Green MP Gloriz Ghahraman proposed a bill before parliament to lower the New Zealand voting age from 18 down to 16. The debate that is raised here, whether the New Zealand voting age should be lowered or not is a debate that caught my interest and influenced me to dive deeper into the topic. In this blog, I will discuss and expand both sides of the argument and look into how this debate ties into the idea of cultural citizenship and the role that cultural citizenship plays in our society and democracy. I will also incorporate my personal view on the matter and reflect on the points and examples I bring up in this blog. 

Lowering the voting age to 16 is a debate not just discussed in New Zealand, but all over the world. Brazil lowered their voting age from 18 to 16 in 1988 and Germany has lowered the voting age to 16 for state and municipal elections (Eichorn, 2021) The number of countries that have their national voting age at 16 is 10 but many more countries have been debating, and putting forward legalisations where the voting age being 16 could be a possibility, including here in New Zealand (Oosterhoff, 2022). There has been a huge push recently here in New Zealand to lower the national voting age to 16 with Ghahraman’s Electoral Amendment Bill as well as an advocacy group named Make it 16, who have taken cases of lowering the voting age to the High Court and the Court of Appeal, they are also planning on taking this to the Supreme Court (Rawhiti-Connell). However, not all New Zealanders appear to support this, a poll done by 1News shows that only 13% of New Zealanders want the voting age to be lowered to 16 (1News). There appears to be substantial and credible evidence that supports both sides of the debate, so I’ll begin to examine both sides of the debate as well as see how these opinions and this debate as a whole play into cultural citizenship.

 One of the main arguments for the people who support the voting age being lowered to 16 is that the issues that are at hand are immensely affecting young people, not just adults. As Cate Tipler (the co-director of the Make it 16 campaign) points out, one of the main issues facing New Zealanders, that being public transport, is also heavily affecting the youth. She highlights that 16 and 17 are huge users of public transport and states that they should have a say in how to improve our public transport infrastructure (Milne, 2022). Tipler also highlights the issue of climate change and says that it's absolutely in the interest of 16 and 17-year-olds to have a say when it comes to addressing climate emissions (Milne, 2022).  Many 16 and 17 also have part-time, some even full-time jobs, resulting in them paying a significant amount of income tax, Make it 16 argues that there “shouldn’t be taxation without representation” (Make it 16). Green MP Gloriz Ghahraman also highlights the fact that lowering the age to 16 will help young people to become more engaged in politics, stating that not only would this create a “more representative democracy”, but provide opportunities to help engage the youth in politics while still at school (Ghahraman, 2021).

 Looking into the main arguments for the people who oppose lowering the voting age, one of the main arguments is that 16 and 17-year-olds are ill-formed, immature, and do not have enough life experience to vote. Kate Hawkesby from NewstalkZB highlights that they do not have mortgages are not raising families, are not paying bills, and claim that they are not “awash with life experience” (Hawkesby, 2022).  Another one of the main concerns of lowering the voting age, highlighted by Dr Brownwyn Wood, is that young people’s views are heavily influenced by adults, such as their teachers and or their parents which are subject to concern (Wood, 2017). Woods also highlights the issue that 16 and 17-year-olds are still largely economically dependent on their parents, therefore the ability to vote does not match the other responsibilities that 16 and 17-year-olds hold (Wood, 2017). 

 After examining both sides of this argument of whether the voting age should be lowered, I decided to ask myself the question of, did the ideas raised by the social media post challenge or affirm my previous views. My views going into this research were rather passive, I did not have much of a say in whether or not the voting age should or should not be lowered. However, after looking into the issue at hand, I can say that I do think the voting age should be lowered to 16. There is much stronger evidence to support the claims of the Make it 16 campaign and its support than the people who are opposed to it. Through studies based on other countries that have lowered their voting age, we can see that 16-17-year-old have higher first-time voter turnouts than 18-19-year-olds (Eichorn, 2021). In these same studies, they were also able to conclude that data shows that there were no negative effects of lowering the voting age on “young people’s engagement or civic attitudes (Eichorn, 2021). 

Tipler, along with the Make it 16 campaign took a case to the High Court and aimed to seek a Declaration of Inconsistency, which is a decoration that is used so the court can communicate to parliament that legislation “has infringed the rights set out in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act” (Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2021). While it did end up ruling in the Crown’s favour, University of Otago Law Professor Andrew Geddis stated that the Make it 16 court case was an opportunity to “lay bare the shoddy basis for restricting individual rights” (Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2021). Through this campaign highlighted by a Facebook post made by the Green Party, we can see the importance of cultural citizenship and how it plays a huge part in our democracy. Cultural citizenship can be described as the idea of including in the culture of citizenship, where initial differences in regard to lifestyle, identical, cultural background, ethnicity, and gender may challenge dominant norms (Stevenson, 1999). Through the Make it 16 campaign, we can see cultural citizenship being enacted. The Make it 16 campaign is all about pushing for the youth, specifically 16 and 17-year-olds to be represented in New Zealand democracy, they are doing this by challenging the dominant norms of the stereotypes of 16 and 17-year-olds. Those stereotypes being they are immature and that they have no real interest in politics. 

In conclusion, after looking into the debate highlighted by the Green Party Facebook post on whether or not the voting age should be lowered to 16 and after examining both sides of the argument. I agree with the Make it 16 campaign and believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16.

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New Zealand Media and Entertainment – Kiwis' home of 2019 Rugby World Cup coverage

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New Zealand Media and Entertainment – Kiwis' home of 2019 Rugby World Cup coverage

NewstalkZB and Radio Sport have secured live radio broadcast rights to the 2019 Rugby World Cup, providing the centrepiece of New Zealand Media and Entertainment’s (NZME) multi-platform, 24/7 coverage from Japan.

The two NZME stations are the official radio broadcasters of the World Cup, where New Zealand rugby fans can hear all the New Zealand Rugby World Cup games live as part of the 48-game broadcast schedule.

From Tokyo to Yokohama, Radio Sport’s Nigel Yalden will be in Japan to commentate live across Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport’s 64 frequencies, and digitally through nzherald.co.nz and iHeart Radio.

“Nigel is the voice of rugby in New Zealand, having called more than 100 rugby tests,” said NZME Managing Editor Shayne Currie. “He was at Eden Park for the 2011 triumph and at Twickenham for the last Cup victory too. Of course, we expect his commentary for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final in Yokohama will have New Zealand lining up for a three-peat.”

NZME’s NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport will be the home of rugby for the six-week tournament, with an unbeatable line-up of rugby experts and columnists.

NZME has called up Black Ferns star Michaela Blyde and former All Blacks Buck Shelford and Leon MacDonald into the team for their expert analysis and inside knowledge.

Joining Yalden in Japan will be NZME rugby journalists Patrick McKendy, Liam Napier, Elliott Smith, Gregor Paul and videographer Mark Mitchell. With a diverse range of columnists adding even more spice, NZME is promising unique and insightful coverage in digital, print and broadcast.

“New Zealanders’ passion for their rugby stretches well beyond the games themselves. We’ve lined up New Zealand’s top rugby reporters, analysts and writers to ensure Kiwi rugby fans don’t miss a thing. From dodgy refereeing decisions, controversial player selections, to the passion and excitement of the matches, we’ve got this covered,” said Currie.

“With several New Zealand matches played in the evening timeslots, much of New Zealand will be waking up hungry for Cup news. We’re all over that too with our teams of journalists dedicated to hunting out all the Cup action and reaction on nzherald.co.nz, Newstalk ZB, Radio Sport and all of NZME’s music radio networks too.

“Our NZ Herald Premium subscribers will have an even closer view, with insightful and exclusive features, a special newsletter and rich statistics to take them inside New Zealand’s national game.”

Love your rugby? Subscribe now to NZ Herald Premium for unlimited access to premium content, including our exclusive, first-class rugby coverage. Check out our special rugby offer here

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Understanding Corporations and how they work!

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Dad living in car 160km from family to pay bills @jacindaardern @Breakfaston1 @nzherald @NewstalkZB @NewshubNZ

Dad living in car 160km from family to pay bills @jacindaardern @Breakfaston1 @nzherald @NewstalkZB @NewshubNZ

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Jones Ioane in his car. Credits: Newshub.

A working family has been torn apart due to soaring living costs in Auckland.

Jones Ioane and his pregnant partner, who also have a five-year-old son, have been struggling for the past year to pay $420 to rent a two-bedroom house in Papatoetoe, despite the couple both…

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ニュージーランドで、ビル・イングリッシュ（Bill English）首相が缶詰のスパゲティとパイナップルをトッピングしたピザを紹介したところ、これに批判が殺到する事態となっている。 　イングリッシュ首相は数日前、家族のために用意した食事だとして、この普通ではないピザの写真をフェイスブック（Facebook）に投稿した。ところが、スパゲティをトッピングした首相のピザをめぐり、インターネットではピザの愛好家らから批判が集中し、モツァレラチーズが溶けるよりも早くネットは「炎上」状態に。 「どうしてそんな残飯を紹介するんだ？そんなものを国外からのお客様に提供できる？？」「残念だがビル、ピザにスパゲティをのせるような人間はわが国を率いるにはふさわしくない」などの投稿が相次いだ。 　在ウェリントン（Wellington）のイタリア大使館も黙っていなかった。「缶詰のスパゲティとパイナップルをトッピングした首相のピザへの『ベンデッタ（復讐、ふくしゅう）』」とのメッセージとともに、ニュージーランド人が愛してやまないデザート、パブロバを果物の代わりにサラミで覆いつくした写真をツイッター（Twitter）に投稿した。 　こうした批判に対してイングリッシュ首相は、自分のピザは強い反発を引き起こしたかもしれないが、自分を支持する人も大勢いるとひるまず、地元ラジオNewstalkZBに「今や行く先々で、自分もピザにスパゲティとパイナップルをのせるという人たちが私に話しかけてくる」と語った。(c)AFP

ピザにスパゲティとパイナップル！ NZ首相に批判殺到　写真3枚　国際ニュース：AFPBB News

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In breakfast, Hosking on NewstalkZB rose 27,000 listeners nationwide to 397,600 to top commercial stations but Morning Report on RNZ National jumped 67,000 to 500,900 listeners a week.

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RT @NewstalkZB: Sky City blaze: Fire and Emergency NZ upscale blaze to 5th alarm https://t.co/gYqnetSyGW https://t.co/X32nIFfPTG

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Another Black Cap is heading to the Indian Premier League - 31-Mar-2019 - NZ Cricket news #NewZealandNationalCricketTeam #IndianPremierLeague #PrimeMinisterOfIndia #ChennaiSuperKings #IPL #NewstalkZB Another Black Cap is heading to the Indian Premier League Another Black Cap is heading to the Indian Premier League 31 March 2019 Allrounder Scott Kuggeleijn has been called into the Chennai Super Kings as a replacement for South African Lungi Ngidi who has a side strain. https://cricmain.com/2019/03/30/another-black-cap-is-heading-to-the-indian-premier-league-31-mar-2019-nz-cricket-news/

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Fiji under fire for 'irregular' media coverage of royal visit

Published in NewstalkZB| Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 4:55p.m.

Questions are being asked about why Fijian media won't be allowed to get close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their tour.

Prince Harry and his wife Megan land at Nausori Airport this afternoon, where they'll be greeted by a Guard of Honour.

They'll visit the President briefly, then travel to Albert Park for a traditional welcoming ceremony.

However, they'll do so with fewer people watching then normal.

Islands Business correspondent Lice Movono says only Fijian Government officers and British royal correspondents and will be allowed near the royal couple.

She says Fijian journalists and other international media will have to use stories, footage and photos by Department of Information teams.

"I think it's quite oppressive and quite unfair and one can't be suspicious of what this means. What is it that they're frightened of?

Movono understands safety concerns, but says there should've been more effort to include Fijian media.

"I think it's quite irregular. Myself and the company I write for have expressed our disappointments with the British High Commission."

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'Stern telephone call' from PM to MP Greg O'Connor over reactions on Clare Curran abdication

‘Stern telephone call’ from PM to MP Greg O’Connor over reactions on Clare Curran abdication

Work backbencher Greg O’Connor has gotten a “stern telephone call” from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the wake of censuring her treatment of Clare Curran’s renunciation.

O’Connor told Heather du Plessis-Allan on NewstalkZB today that Ardern’s treatment of Curran’s choice to leave on Friday “could have been improved the situation”.

“Definitely it could have been improved the situation, I don’t…

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