Following yesterdays story Washed up rapper kicks Ryder while he’s down on Scribbler’s twitter comments, the Herald and Stuff both jumped on the bandwagon today by running their own stories on the rapper desperately trying to claw his way back to relevance. But one thing he needs to learn is that people saying dumb shit on social media never goes unnoticed, and they will be crucified for it.
James Deen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Last week Stuff repeated an glamified article on porn exploiter James Deen speaking at a University in the US under the headline: “Is this Porn Star Dangerous?”
Stuff (and any newspaper they published it in) are a disgrace for two reasons – they clearly did no research and YES he is dangerous. Why? Because, by his own admission, he is prepared to assault/torture damaged women for money.
A small amount of research will turn up a particular style of video this man does. It is actions not to different from what Michael Edward Farley has been arrested for in Canada. In one particular piece of “art” (his words – he compares himself to Warhol) he berates a 45kg woman for not paying him money she owes. To get his money’s worth out of her he systematically slaps her many times (about the head and various parts of her body), drags her around rooms by the hair, electrocutes her vagina, penetrates her many times despite her saying NO! (also many times), hits her frequently with an object, strangles her, causes her to vomit, etc and ad nauseum . In another he simulates a bondage rape – with a child like girl who must way all of 40kg. I stopped searching at that point (who would be a film censor?) Read more »
It looks like Stuff has caught the Herald Disease.
They really made a hash of their coverage of Shearer’s re-shuffle:
They aren’t even close to approaching the awful job the NZ Herald is doing with digital media.
Rule number one of the modern repeater – Never let the truth get in the way of a good story..
Stuff’s good story – “shock as tonight’s lotto winner collapses of near win“:
The truth: Fat contestant slips and trips off the stage: (Animated gif)
Yesterday, it was “a teacher from Auckland”. That’s all we knew.
Today, the Herald has a piece on how a letter was sent home to parents in which they are instructed to uphold the name suppression order. No gossip, no social media, nothing.
But at the same time, Stuff ups the anti:
A West Auckland primary school teacher has been arrested and charged with indecently assaulting his pupils.
The teacher, aged in his 60s, was arrested last week as the result of a “full and thorough” investigation, police said.
Just like the New Zealand Olympian with Name Suppression, and the New Zealand Comedian with Name Suppression, give it a few more days, and we’ll all know who the West Auckland Teacher with Name Suppression is.
It’s because the papers leak little bits of information over a number of days. They have always done so. And they never get taken to court for it.
We all know that the Herald Bombs…now Fairfax has caught the disease. I note there is no-one calling for the banning of knives.
Sean Plunket sits back and laments the lack of hard news this time of year by phoning in his Stuff opinion column. He put together the nation’s 12 worst Fails of 2012. (Really? That’s it?) It’s not worth reading all of it, but he got this one right:
To have a conspiracy to overthrow your political leader you need at least one other person to conspire with and it is a really good idea to shut up about it in the meantime. It takes real talent to make David Shearer look tough and mean but Mr Cunliffe managed to achieve that.
Percentages. They’re hard.
From Stuff Politics today:
Voters have responded by giving it a marginal fail for its performance this year – on a scale of zero to 10, the average score was 4.9 per cent.
Tracy Watkins deserves a D on a scale of zero to 10.
Has there been some management decision at Fairfax to engage the NZ Horrid to a race to the bottom? It certainly appears that way as they have another pearler today trying to stick one to the Government.
It seems Aucklanders Melanie Daniels and Terry Clarke are having a particularly bad time of it living at a Housing New Zealand property:
A year of dead rats, arson, tagging and burglary has finally driven an Auckland family out of their Housing New Zealand home.
Melanie Daniels, Terry Clarke and their son Simon, three, have been the victims of a campaign of torment since March.
Dead rats began appearing in their Randwick Park mailbox in March and then the mailbox was set on fire.
Tagging came next, but the last straw came on Guy Fawkes night when someone broke into their home and smashed it up.
Yikes. That sounds bad.
The family has been having issues with one of their Shifnal Dr neighbours and claim it was just a matter of time before something like the break-in happened.
”We’ve warned them and the police have warned them that this was going to happen.
”It needs to be sorted out now – there’s a three-year-old child here and it has just gone too far.”
Well, it seems pretty nasty alright. So, who’s to blame for this? Housing New Zealand.
Yes, you read that right.
They claim it has taken months of complaints and appeals to Housing NZ to get anything done.
“‘It’s ridiculous – Housing New Zealand’s not helping,” Daniels said.
They’re not helping!
[Daniels] said it seems Housing NZ didn’t want to know about the situation and claims they led her to believe she’d have to pay for the damage caused during the break-in, something the Government organisation denies.
Housing NZ Tenancy services manager Denise Fink said staff had met with Daniels and Clarke and are taking their safety concerns seriously.
The family was given the option of applying for a transfer which they had taken, she said.
Oh, they are helping.
When there is a feud with a neighbour, it is a police matter. But according to the Stuff longbow hitsquad member Jay Boreham, it’s another reason to write a government hit piece.
The real story, how it all started in March, why this feud is still going on, why the Police haven’t been able to act, and what our Newspaper Article Couple of the Day have done to deserve this response seems to have been glossed over.
But it doesn’t matter. It’s Housing New Zealand’s fault when you get a rat in your letter box or have your TV smashed during a burglary.
Stuff put up a nothing piece about a US Spy visiting New Zealand and insisting John Key reveal who he is.
Straight away that’s a nothing article. Who in their right mind expects a sitting Prime Minister, who is in charge of New Zealand’s own spy agency, the GCSB, to name a visiting intelligence professional?
By demanding an answer of Key, who had to politely decline in a number of ways, they asked enough questions for Stuff to fashion some sort of atmosphere of denial, suggesting all these goings on are super secret and there is something the public needs to know.
Key, in his usual way, takes the air out of the tyres:
“I don’t track every [US security] official that comes to New Zealand. People come all the time. Some come on planes, some don’t … I don’t bother going to ask who’s on those particular planes.”
He agreed it must have been a senior figure in US President Barack Obama’s administration.
“There’d be lots of senior and important people that come to New Zealand.
“If someone parks a US plane at Wellington airport, in my opinion, that doesn’t count as a secret.
“If someone was secretly trying to get into New Zealand you presumably won’t park a marked plane at Wellington airport.”
The article speculates about the possible reasons and sources of the visit, but apart from Key’s denial, they have nothing to go on.
That’s where the non-news article should have ended – if published at all.
But no, Fairfax/Stuff takes out the longbow and leaves readers with these final two sentences
[Overseas security officials meet] regularly across the globe. They are believed to have met in New Zealand in September.
Within days Key ordered an investigation into illegal spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) on internet piracy accused Kim Dotcom.
I’m sure Key was also seen in a set of toilets the same day and people, who are yet to be identified, were in the stalls next to him. Some observers “are believed” when it is thought words may have been exchanged.
Within days, the GCSB tape that was believed to exist by a senior government official believed to have strong links with the Labour Party, is believed to have been destroyed, because it has not been located since.
It’s interesting to note the Stuff hit piece is published as a “Fairfax” article, and no journalist has dared to put their name on it. The headline for this hit piece? “Key refuses to identify visiting US spy”.
Oh, and they managed to mention Dotcon.
Do journalist get paid under the table by Dotcon for every mention of his name? It is believed they do.
