Newshub has on many occasions shown political bias in the way it reports on topical issues, but this latest effort has brought the contempt the editors there have for balanced reporting out into the open. The poll was on whether Jacinda Ardern should run for a second term as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the result was an astounding No.
Within hours of the Poll going live the entire page was pulled down by Newshub as the results showed a clear preference by respondents to not have Ms Ardern as an option for Prime Minister beyond 2020. As of writing the link to the articles returns a “404 Not Found” page, meaning that the page has been removed – however Google’s search engine keeps a cached copy of pages it finds so you can view that copy here.
We should all demand that media is impartial and that it reports only on the facts, leave the opinion-making up to the reader. Unfortunately the distinction between journalism and activism has been blurred in the age of social justice and click-bait, with agenda-driven opinions being presented as fact.
Intriguing. I agree with your concerns around journalist-bias in NZ. https://wp.me/p51f0Y-y
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Yes we should demand that media is impartial… which is why bollocks like this should not be allowed. You’ve used a doctored photo for the main photo. A newshub page not found error that shows no web address (so it can’t be checked) and your link to the cached poll page (via google) doesn’t work (so it never actually existed in the first place). Do some basic journalism yourself you morally bankrupt moron.
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No, I donβt believe she is experienced enough to run this country. Apart from running it too the ground. Taxing the shit out of life. Our selection in all honesty is poor.
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cache link now removed as well
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Newshub would only pull down a poll like this when theyβve detected itβs being manipulated. This is the responsible thing for a news organisation to do. For a blog thatβs supposedly interested in uncovering corruption, this is the antithesis of that.
Online polls like these are so unscientific that itβs faintly irresponsible that news organisations host them at all. It lends them a legitimacy thatβs not deserved.
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No.. weβve had enough taxation for a lifetime
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Even the cached page has been removed from the web. The link in your article above now returns a 404 page.
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She didn’t win the first election she won’t even get a little bit close this time she’s gone her career is over has screwed up so bad she won’t recover from that ever in glad the treasonous bitch she should be jailed after she gets kicked out the evil bitch
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No way known. She is evil and total disaster for NZ.
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Fully agree, but unbiased journalism seems a rarity nowadays – far too many opinions or repitiion fill the website pages.
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Clearly the poll was manipulated somehow, and thus any remotely credible news organisation would delete it.
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MSM is in a sorry state of affairs.
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No way she should, sheβs just a wrecking ball in a skirt.
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just look at the antics of this fool PM and judge for yourself she has done nothing but talks like she has fixed everything ,shes a bad bad bad a choice NZ
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All Newspapers and Radio Station including TV should refrain from commenting on any policical and just report what the people of NZ actually think
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Absolutely not she needs to go π‘
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PM is a horse head and a muzzrat asse licker.
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Lets face it,Jacinda was like our Obama.We thought she could come in & make a difference for the unfortunate people in our society but like Obama she has failed to deliver,although Jacinda’s inadequacies have come to the forefront a lot quicker.Newshub & the like will no doubt be feeding the public a pack of well orchestrated lies,reminds me of john Key.Why let the truth get in the way? The government has Newshub in it’s pocket,don’t expect impartiality from them.
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SHE WILL DESTROY N Z
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she can run in Yemen,
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Cached version gone as well..
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Jacinda has done nothing to stop 1080 poison, She is out
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Looks like Google has now deleted it from their archive.
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No her transpancy leaves somewhat to be desired
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No – she is daft! An embarrassment to all Kiwis!
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Damn auto correct:
Heads up β I kid you not, when this showed up in my news feed I literally saw the options to like or share disappear before my eyes and the cached view is also a β404. Thatβs an errorβ now.
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Problem with Jacinda and her team is that they have been pretty much like Key and National. Carbon emissions have not decreased, 2 whole years barely any new houses built as promised. Time to give somewhere else a go
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not there now it a 404 now!
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FUUUUUCK NOOOOOO !
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I strongly believe that the media should be impartial also and that they should only report fact and NOT opinion
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Unfortunately the Google cache has been scrubbed too π¦
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