Hard to argue with someone who knows

[Olive]

I'm guessing that the Govt has gone down the route of "the less information we provide, the less chance we'll get it wrong" which isn't particularly useful for many of the so-called journalists who spend their time copy and pasting press releases. All of this probably explains why we have so many opinion pieces masquerading as content these days, void of content and high on bias.

Fifield is a proper journalist, even if she's spent much of her career offshore parroting news from the Chinese Communist Party and using questionable South Korean sources to write about North Korea. She came back to NZ decrying clickbait articles and was keen to be involved with Stuff - who have since increased their output of clickbait. Even the Fifield-edited Dom Post has at least two headlines framed as questions today which is sloppy.

The media has had a decidedly blue tinge the last few months, so we're into 'that' part of the electoral cycle where the opposition gets a little more puff and the people doing the work get a little more criticism. Why report the news when you can make the news?

I agree.   Fifield and Stuff are both disappointments.   When Stuff had its makeover I became a subscriber because I fell for its self-promotion, but, although I held on to hope for a while, John Bishop was too much and I unsubscribed.   The only local news entity I support now is The Spinoff.