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What a fantastic article. I knew as soon as I heard the news about this that it was ragebait bullshit, but so many didn't. I have explained to people IRL what this policy is trying to do, how it does it, and how the article titles were misleading at best.
This kind of journalism has no place in NZ.
Nah, the reporting on this was factually accurate. The author seems to have expected our media to justify the course of action our health departments are taking, and was shocked and appalled when they didn't.
It included some accurate facts, and excluded a bunch of other facts that contextualised what was happening. Framing is important as it helps to influence how an article is read and what takeaways a reader has.
Facts such as?...
In order to be factually accurate it would have to present all the facts. It didn't.
Hammer! My favourite munter!
Enlighten me, what facts were left out?
The fact that maori and pacifica were being forced to wait longer for operations and that the doctors were not treating them and sending them to the hospitals instead.
But your white replacement paranoia kicked in and you reacted in the most racist way possible. It really highlighted how deep and virulent racism is in this country so I guess the article was good for one thing.
I thought the only reason Maori Andrew Pasifica waited longer on average was because those groups had significantly more health issues, largely due to lifestyle choices?
While accurate (race is a factor), how it was framed, how it was presented, and how little additional information was given was intentionally done to promote outrage by misleading the entire situation. I do not think it was presented in a factually accurate way.
Race is one of many factors. It is an independently clinical factor, just like age, socioeconomic status, pre-existing conditions, and more. We don't see any outrage about any of that, do we? To present it as it was in the initial media attention framed the entire situation in as negative a way as possible. They intentionally left out parts of the situation to make it seem worse than it was. If not intentional, than incompetent.
You can't expect a news article to provide context and back story for everything, or every news article would be a novel in it's own right.
Besides, our media frames and presents things in a certain light all the time, it's just this time it wasn't the angle they wanted them to take.
Besides, our media frames and presents things in a certain light all the time, it’s just this time it wasn’t the angle they wanted them to take.
This time the take was designed to appeal to the racists and of course the racists reacted predictably. Hilariously both ACT and National dropped their facade and started spewing their racism out in the open.
What racism is that, hammer?
I've locked this. The article is great but the discussion happening in the comments does not seem to be of benefit to any participants.
This article comes out as a butthurt whinge, to be bluntly honest.
Whether the reporting on this was fair is a matter of opinion, whether it was factually accurate isn't. We saw our media absolutely bend over backwards to portray Marama Davidson's actions in the best possible light, the author of this seems to have expected the same treatment by our media, and is shocked and appalled they didn't get it.
Fuck em.
I don't think there's any dispute the herald reporting was factually accurate. The issue is that it was very heavily biased and was obviously designed to be inflammatory clickbait.
Eh, the main reason for the outrage, in my view, is that usually they're doing this to favour the point of view the author holds.
Having the media not on their side must have been a shock to them.
In this case the reporting was neither fair nor factually accurate.
In order to be factually accurate it has to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It didn't do that. It presented a half truth and the racist public devoured it because it reinforced their "white replacement" persecution complex.
