Political bias

One of the cornerstones of democracy is a free, independent and impartial press. I find extraordinary, the lack of impartiality shown by your journalists over this election campaign. The majority of your cartoons, articles, letters and language are negative about the current government. For example, Bill English has for weeks been calling for Labour to provide clarity with their tax intentions. Yet when Winston Peters did the same it was a front page headline of your newspaper.

I am at a loss as to this extreme bias towards the left from the media in this country. I have yet to see an article (I read your paper daily) indicating the achievements of this government. All I see is the negative finding fault with everything they do.

Billions of dollars of infrastructure poured in to the Waikato over the past nine years and that we were the only country to come out on the positive side of the ledger after the world’s worst economic crisis in living memory, despite the cost of three major earthquakes. This indicates that they have being doing a great job in extraordinarily difficult times. Despite this, the media are using every means possible to push an inexperienced idealist with zero real world experience, leading a very weak team, into power. Biased journalists who attempt to influence the result of an election, do our democracy a disservice.

J A Oehley

Cambridge

Zealand’s young people are desperately worried about the devastations of climate change. What can we, the voters, do? It’s easy – party vote Green!

Sue Middleton

Hamilton