Which is the best construction I can put upon the presentation - at the head of the hourly news bulletin - of an item midday today (and at 1 p.m.) upon RNZ National, dealing with an interview Yours Truly had listened to after the 7 a.m. News with host Jim Mora and regularly 'appearing' opinion pollster **Em(m)anuel Kalifatelis/Kalifitavis (of Research New Zealand)...
To wit, Radio New Zealand highlighted only one of *three opinion polls recently conducted by Research NZ, the one showing that most NZers would support moving from the present three-year to a four-year term of national government...
...all too conveniently failing to include that another of their latest polls shows kiwis opposing in no uncertain terms the much-touted and endlessly promoted lowering of the voting age from 18 downwards...
...and, wonder of wonders, even youth themselves (the 18-30-year age demographic or the like) majorly opposed doing so (by a margin of 70:28%, apparently)...
Yes, the news always looks a whole lot better and in sync with one's own political preferences when we only mention the bits we like and oh so conveniently sidestep and even positively ignore those we don't...
But, folks, last I heard that's called stacking the deck in one's own favour and/or giving viewers/readers/listeners only half the story...
...though perhaps I'm a little wet behind the ears, naive or gullible, and perhaps that's really what ***said media actually want their devotees to hear...
...i.e. only those so-called 'facts' that just so conveniently happen to suit their agenda...
-and yet they'd have us believe that only the likes of Donald J Trump major in 'fake news'...
*Please forgive me for presently forgetting what the other of those polls was about/over.
**Depending upon which of the various items posted under said gentleman's name express the correct spelling!
***Unlike Newstalk ZB, incidentally, which upon their 5 p.m. news bulletin included both these polls.
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