A heartfelt Plea

When you look at newspapers from a time that newspapers were paper tools for delivering news, the first thing that strikes you is even the front page contained just news.

Only the odd line drawing advertisement broke the page, even when the news was dramatic and relevant.

Photographs were reserved for either inside sections or, occasionally, a special added outer-sheet designed to be removed to get at the news sections.

I miss those times.

I usually read the news in the mornings when drinking coffee, eating breakfast (or both), on-line. Every story, every item I click on is accompanied by a photograph.

Sometimes (i.e. Mr Musk's latest rocket test results) that photograph is both useful and topical but 99.999999999% of the time the photograph is a headshot of a fucking politician, often one who is not even relevant to the story. Always a grinning, ugly, pathetic publicity-type shot, usually altered to look positive or negative depending on whether the editor agrees with that person's politics.

Mr Publisher, I know what Biden, Trump, the communist c*&t, the whinging Ginger, Luxon etc. look like. Reminding me simply spoils the coffee/breakfast - one of the very few pleasures in this old man's day.

Mr Newspaper Publisher, Mr Editor, instead of this visual obscenity fill the gap up with more news. I realise this will probably mean your content will need to extend beyond the communist propaganda you now present exclusively but it could well be worth it.

I might start buying your newspaper again.

A Polite Query

New Zealand is coming to the end (hopefully) of a so-far unique circumstance.

The end of the first Government in New Zealand's history where the Government has deliberately worked against New Zealand and the vast majority of it's people.

Given the disgraceful behaviour during the Covid panic, the move towards open apartheid, the seriously damaging destruction of health services and the total abdication of responsibility for the provision of useful education for young New Zealand, every rational person (and virtually all of us irrational people) in New Zealand must admit this.

Thankfully this Government has also been incompetent and we still get to hold a meaningful and democratic election this year - which, if the current clowns are re-elected will almost certainly be New Zealand's last.

The campaign for this election has started but with a whimper rather than a bang.

Rather than emphasise the total dishonesty of the current Government and promise to investigate the extent of that dishonesty, rather than promise to explore the individual rewards gained by members of this Government, if only to display that the current lot were deluded rather than corrupt, the opposition are treating the 20-23 Government as if they were faultless, even honorable.

There can be no doubt many, if not all, senior Government personnel have profitted from their terms in office - e.g. is the former PM in the position she's in because of her display of complete lack of competence?

Why are Mr Seymour, Mr Luxon, Mr Peters not demanding inquiries even now? Why are they not promising forensic inquiries of the 20-23 senior Government elected representatives' finances and circumstances (bribes ain't always cash in the hand) as soon as they take office, again if only to rule out widespread corruption among this Labour/Green/Racist group?

Are they too polite?

Or does New Zealand simply need a brand new batch of politicians?