Having been on the receiving end of Patterson's legalistic bullying this is indeed a shitty thing to behold. He happily acted in the interests of a man with money to prevent us telling the truth, and reinforced those lies in writing with the intention of intimidating us so that we wouldn't continue our project.
Absolute bullshit. And a great example of the totally unbalanced power of those with financial resources to silence those without those resources.
I guess they didn't bring up the case of Siouxie Wiles, who has been hideously - and openly - defamed? No-one is taking her defamers to court. But then she's a woman, she's got pink hair and she's not rich. Maybe that makes her persecution ok?
That’s gross (allegedly). What an alleged dickhead. Those reviews were quite measured and included constructive criticism, no troll would go to that effort to write that way.
Feels like minimal editorial oversight at Newshub Nation. They saw there’s clicks in the story about Zuru, so needed to do a piece. What’s the angle? Who cares! Are we interested in the actual story and people affected? Not really. Any worries about being shills for a darling ‘NZ’ mega corp? Nope. Went to you first as a story OG - no go. Then shopped around and found a media savvy suit. Angle didn’t matter, just that there’s a video piece on t’the zuru story’ 😕
A company my husband worked with had a negative review on Glassdoor, they talked about how to handle it and came to the conclusion that a) you shouldn’t have so many disgruntled employees that you don’t know who wrote it and b) they needed to do what they could to make sure other employees weren’t feeling the same. NZ is a small enough place that if you’re dicks, people will know, you don’t need Glassdoor when there’s only two degrees of separation
Hey David, I hope you have a good antidote to the sick feeling - you have been swallowing mountains of crap lately e.g. Arise etc so I'm hoping you do something nice to wash it off your wairua. As for this latest exposure of yours it made me aware for the first time of both Glasshouse and the toy fascists. Newscrap continues to disappoint in terms of speaking truth to power and is just another sad example of the state of our MSM in Aotearoa NZ. Kia kaha as you keep on with your straight shooting on this topic 👏👍
NewsHub is a shadow of what Three News was. The way it platforms more and more right wing “commentators” makes me feel ill. A client of mine, who is trans, talked to NewsHub about what it’s like being trans in NZ (shit, basically). NH put it on their Facebook and then made NO effort whatsoever to moderate the horrific comments. They got my client to write a rebuttal to those comments, which they then didn’t post on their Facebook. The whole thing was disgustingly handled and I lost all faith in them.
Between them and Stuff, I have very little faith left in journalism in Aotearoa.
I wish I could say this angle on the story surprised me, but I've gotten desensitized to these kinds of lazy "keyboard warrior" angles when it comes to anything even vaguely related to the internet. It's depressing. That's honestly the main reason I became a paid subscriber for Webworm - at least SOMEONE is still trying, and if an article here makes me sad or have an existential crisis, it's not because the research or writing was lazy and reductionist.
On a positive note, that's a very pretty crystal and I admit to getting distracted by it for a long time in the middle of reading this.
Sadly the billion dollar creeps showing off New Zealand to the world, all over the world, are the Dean Halls and his stupid gun violence filled videos( but hey he loves fast cars gotta make big money for those babies)then there’s the kiwi toy makers planting more tons of hideous plastic crap(oh sure so environmental!,)…I just wonder if the makers homes are littered with all that ugly plastic!!!?……takes guns on video screens for our youth and hideous plastic things for our babies!!! Oh yay for New Zealand!!!….sadly, the world is eating all that crap up as we drown in violence, guns and ugly plastic…
First of all - David you're one awesome human, just want to lead with that. I actually used to enjoy watching Q&A and newshub nation every Sunday. Then trump got elected and I realised that all matter is merely energy Condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is but a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Jk, that was young men on acid. Anyway I've slowly come to the realisation that there's no nuance anymore. People see a post (from a literal Russian troll) on their Facebook feed and parrot it back as TRUTH! Intelligent people have done this, there's no discrimination. I can only hope people see this shitty "journalism" on tele and dive a little deeper. I'm so tired, I honestly don't know how you do it! Rage though, that is cool, hope tiks aren't $500 😒
PS: It means a LOT seeing some new paying subscribers coming onboard. Your support keeps this thing running. Thank you. THANK YOU.
As I always say - the second it becomes any kind of financial burden, hit "unsub" at the bottom of an email, and pop back on the free list.
Having been on the receiving end of Patterson's legalistic bullying this is indeed a shitty thing to behold. He happily acted in the interests of a man with money to prevent us telling the truth, and reinforced those lies in writing with the intention of intimidating us so that we wouldn't continue our project.
Absolute bullshit. And a great example of the totally unbalanced power of those with financial resources to silence those without those resources.
Surely that's not just a coincidence that they booked him as a guest. I suspect Newshub knew your history with him and was hoping for fireworks.
I guess they didn't bring up the case of Siouxie Wiles, who has been hideously - and openly - defamed? No-one is taking her defamers to court. But then she's a woman, she's got pink hair and she's not rich. Maybe that makes her persecution ok?
That’s gross (allegedly). What an alleged dickhead. Those reviews were quite measured and included constructive criticism, no troll would go to that effort to write that way.
Hey David - dropped you a note re: legal assistance last night. No reply needed, but help there if required - no charge :)
Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted, that's how it goes ay
Feels like minimal editorial oversight at Newshub Nation. They saw there’s clicks in the story about Zuru, so needed to do a piece. What’s the angle? Who cares! Are we interested in the actual story and people affected? Not really. Any worries about being shills for a darling ‘NZ’ mega corp? Nope. Went to you first as a story OG - no go. Then shopped around and found a media savvy suit. Angle didn’t matter, just that there’s a video piece on t’the zuru story’ 😕
A company my husband worked with had a negative review on Glassdoor, they talked about how to handle it and came to the conclusion that a) you shouldn’t have so many disgruntled employees that you don’t know who wrote it and b) they needed to do what they could to make sure other employees weren’t feeling the same. NZ is a small enough place that if you’re dicks, people will know, you don’t need Glassdoor when there’s only two degrees of separation
Hey David, I hope you have a good antidote to the sick feeling - you have been swallowing mountains of crap lately e.g. Arise etc so I'm hoping you do something nice to wash it off your wairua. As for this latest exposure of yours it made me aware for the first time of both Glasshouse and the toy fascists. Newscrap continues to disappoint in terms of speaking truth to power and is just another sad example of the state of our MSM in Aotearoa NZ. Kia kaha as you keep on with your straight shooting on this topic 👏👍
NewsHub is a shadow of what Three News was. The way it platforms more and more right wing “commentators” makes me feel ill. A client of mine, who is trans, talked to NewsHub about what it’s like being trans in NZ (shit, basically). NH put it on their Facebook and then made NO effort whatsoever to moderate the horrific comments. They got my client to write a rebuttal to those comments, which they then didn’t post on their Facebook. The whole thing was disgustingly handled and I lost all faith in them.
Between them and Stuff, I have very little faith left in journalism in Aotearoa.
I wish I could say this angle on the story surprised me, but I've gotten desensitized to these kinds of lazy "keyboard warrior" angles when it comes to anything even vaguely related to the internet. It's depressing. That's honestly the main reason I became a paid subscriber for Webworm - at least SOMEONE is still trying, and if an article here makes me sad or have an existential crisis, it's not because the research or writing was lazy and reductionist.
On a positive note, that's a very pretty crystal and I admit to getting distracted by it for a long time in the middle of reading this.
Sadly the billion dollar creeps showing off New Zealand to the world, all over the world, are the Dean Halls and his stupid gun violence filled videos( but hey he loves fast cars gotta make big money for those babies)then there’s the kiwi toy makers planting more tons of hideous plastic crap(oh sure so environmental!,)…I just wonder if the makers homes are littered with all that ugly plastic!!!?……takes guns on video screens for our youth and hideous plastic things for our babies!!! Oh yay for New Zealand!!!….sadly, the world is eating all that crap up as we drown in violence, guns and ugly plastic…
First of all - David you're one awesome human, just want to lead with that. I actually used to enjoy watching Q&A and newshub nation every Sunday. Then trump got elected and I realised that all matter is merely energy Condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is but a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Jk, that was young men on acid. Anyway I've slowly come to the realisation that there's no nuance anymore. People see a post (from a literal Russian troll) on their Facebook feed and parrot it back as TRUTH! Intelligent people have done this, there's no discrimination. I can only hope people see this shitty "journalism" on tele and dive a little deeper. I'm so tired, I honestly don't know how you do it! Rage though, that is cool, hope tiks aren't $500 😒
Stay strong
Oops, got off on a bit of a tangent there…..that fella looks creepy to me anyway…..