Houston we have a visitor and other news
This week has been a highlight reel from the Book of Revelation
So the first leaders’ debate is tonight. Finally, we’ll find out the answer to the burning question: Will Mike Hosking be fair? Or are all the signatures in that petition just bots? My prediction: Jacinda won’t be the only one in for a grilling. Bill English could get berated for not being right wing enough.
In America last year, the debates between Trump and Hillary were moderated by different hosts, across networks with plainly (if not honestly) different leanings. But did the debates even matter?
Ultimately, Trump was installed either by Southern slave states — with disproportionate power in the electoral college — or by Putin’s hackers. Even when the truth is unveiled, there will be networks which will continue to cover it up, and muddying the waters like highways in Houston.
New Zealand’s version of the electoral college is the perennial quirk that Winston Peters gets given way too much clout. Even the Ministry of Social Development now realises Winston is no longer a bachelor; but the question remains, as ever — who will he give the rose to?
The American approach admitted that objectivity is a false god. It’s naive to imagine that media bias isn’t real, or that it doesn’t affect votes. You just hope that the bias evens out, instead of becoming a lucrative propaganda weapon like Fox News.
This may reveal my own bias, but I wouldn’t even believe sports and weather on Fox News. I’m surprised Fox News spent eight years attacking Obama, because it would have been easier to just tell their viewers he