When someone (usually me!) criticises anti-male bias in the New Zealand
media, it is useful to note how the media react to that criticism. This is
what they do:
They do NOT mend their ways and allow men
to have freedom of speech;
What the media do is decide what sector of society is most likely to support
freedom of speech for men, and then:-
The media do something which they think will appease that sector of society
-- without giving men any freedom of speech.
Typically, the Feminist media will insert a religious (Christian) item into
their news or current affairs, or trot out their female presenter who most resembles
a conservative Christian -- on the grounds that it is conservative Christians
who are most likely to support equality for men. However, after I wrote "The
Poodles, Paul Henry and Simon Dallow, Treat Men Like Mushrooms",
there have been different reactions today:
TV One's Breakfast weather slot featured the southern sport of curling
and scenic photography from the South Island (presumably on the grounds
that South Islanders are more conservative than North Islanders);
TV3's early morning programme (Paul Henry) had an item on how boys' education
is allegedly improved by frequent rides on exercycles;
Radio New Zealand had a news item on new rifles that the Army is buying
(presumably on the grounds that the armed forces are likely to be more pro-men
than other sections of society)!
The Radio New Zealand item was the most extraordinary, in that the news value
to the general population of new Army rifles would certainly be considered to
be very low. It has to be realised that Radio New Zealand routinely slots in
items of Feminist propaganda about domestic violence, rape, girls' education,
etc. at the end of its bulletins, so Radio New Zealand presumably thinks that
if they occasionally put in items to appease the armed forces, that allows them
to keep pumping out their Feminist propaganda at taxpayer expense.
TV3's response seems the most rational and the most appropriate. However:-
They had no Men's Rights activist on the programme; and
The only person they interviewed was the mother of a boy.
That is typical of the Feminist media: to them, only
women have the right to an opinion about Men's Rights. Similarly, when
there was a news item today (on either TV One or TV3) about workplace safety,
they did not interview a male worker -- just a woman demonstrator who pleaded
on behalf of "our men". Men only have rights when they are viewed
as possessions of women! Similarly, the National War Memorial -- an outrageous
eaxmple of Feminist sexism -- does not have statues of male soldiers (as far
as I know -- it has just been remodelled), but only of a mother and children
(inside the building) and of a Maori woman outside it!