Sloppy Journalism Part 11

Watched Espiner G on what passes for TV News. He was commenting on the package that John Key announced today. Fatuously he compared it with the Australian package, which he said was 100 times the size of the package Key announced.

He made no attempt to explain that the Australian economy was quite different in many of it’s characteristics from ours and very much bigger in size. Nor did he really draw attention to the fact that the ratings agencies would downgrade NZ if the Key administration took on too much debt or was seen as profligate. Thus he managed to leave the impression that Key could have delivered an infinitely greater stimulus.Typical sloppy journalism from the state broadcaster.

The NZ economy does not have the wherewithal to spend like the Australians, indeed it is possible the Australian economy does not either.

Unfortunately we are paying the price for the last 9 years when big announcements over promising were made, but under delivering. There was the usual clip of Goff being critical without saying what, if anything, Labour would have done.

Personally, Adam is of the view that using the staged release technique Key is actually being quites sensible.

Of course where Adam made his mistake was in assuming that TVNZ and Espiner G would give any real analysis to the issues.

Then this is only my opinion, others might have a different view.

Another entry in the sloppy journalism stakes.

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