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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the rewrap for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
All the best, but from the mic Husking Breakfast on
Newstalk said, be in a sillier package, I am Glen
harton today. What is a news influencer and why would
anybody listen to them? Policing? How's that going? Has Mark
Mitchell done what he said he was going to do?
And which is the most desirable stolen car at the
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moment right now? Which is the hot, hottest of the
hot cars? But before that, it's heckoy day. I mean
every day it's been a poor day. Hechoy day, hiccoy day. Anyway,
let's get on with it.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So the good news about the arrival today of this
protest is that after today, of course it's over. Thank god.
This has been one of the more misrepresented activities in
recent years. Hard to know what it's actually about, or
whether those taking part even know what it's about. I mean,
is it about the Principle's Bill? Is it about a
general attitude towards the government and the Maori policies? As
a pr stunt for the Maori Party. Perhaps most importantly
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of all, what does it achieve? And the answer, of
course is nothing. The bill, if that's what it is about,
dies after the select Committee process, and even if it didn't,
although you are more than justified to protest, a protest
doesn't change the right of a government to do what
they promised they were going to do. It's called democracy.
I mean. Democracy is slightly complicated by MMP, which may
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or may not produce what you thought it might when
you voted. But democracy, ironically is what led to MMP
in the first place, because we all voted for it.
So the two winners from my view out of the
so far are the Maori Party, who've got a lot
of attention and drummed up good numbers in various parts
of the country for their campaign. They have of course
alienated themselves from many, but one they don't care and
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two you were never voting for them anyway. The other
is David Seymour, who, whether you agree with him or not,
has argued coherently and eloquently not performing so well. We
include here the media, who yet again have sided too
often with the protest. I saw a reporter. I mean,
I gave you the examples before, but I saw a
reporter singing, you can't make the stuff up, literally singing
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as part of her reportage. I saw a reporter dispute
official figures from the police for the turnout, as though
a dispute is in fact part of journalism these days.
Jenny Shipley talking of civil war was an astonishing thing,
as any of I've seen in recent times. At least
Chris Finlason and weighing and kept his head in a
country with real and serious problems. A bill destined for
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the waistbin is not worth the energy this has been given.
Priorities are all over the place. We have looked shabby,
we have looked unhinged. We've looked violent, We've looked low rent.
We are not living up to expectations of our potential.
This is not the country I grew up in, or
indeed love. It is a wayward place at the moment,
and desperate need of some serious leadership and even more discipline.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hey set the nail on the head though. I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Protests are all about making as much noise as possible
and getting as much attention as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And there can be no argument that they've achieved that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So rewrap and of course the reason they have achieved
that is because so many people have covered this in
so many different arms of the media. It seems to
be daily front pages on the Herald for some reason.
Today there was one, even though nothing had happened yet.
So we're previewing news with the front page.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Now, the figure of ten thousand versus thirty thousand some
of the media, the Herald came up to thirty, so
it starts off up to thirty thousand people are expected.
I mean, if you watch the lead on TV one
last night, they were busy counting how many people were
coming when they clearly don't have a clue. Victoria University,
in the Herald article to quota, Victoria University told students
and staff more than thirty thousand people reestimated to take part.
How do they know? Literally, we're making numbers up, Mike,
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catching a train from hut to Wellington much busier, lots
of children going to protest. And then that's another side story,
I guess, Mike, Why is Chris Hopkins going to the
march today reinforcing to voters that he agrees with to
party marriage to potentially lose more labor voters. He's misread
this appallingly. He can be against the legislation, but he
knows as well as anybody else the legislation is going nowhere.
He knows as well as anybody else. You would hope
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that this basically is a recruitment drive for the for
the Mari party and this is their thing, not his.
And to appeal to middle New Zealand, which you have
to to be a major political party in this country.
You do not hang with fringe players. Mike, Yes, absolutely,
Education is trying to wreck the profession. It's run by
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unions in the left wing Education Council n z EI
has told their members to attend the hekoi and encourage
their students to the reference. I was asking before the
seven o'clock news are people on jobs? Are people actively
within their own industry ie the media looking to destroy
the credibility and thus the jobs, And then I'm watching
TV or what passes for TV three news last night
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in reference to the protest, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can be a big gila and you're gonna have a
front row seat to it. So enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Enjoy yourself, and that's how these clowns handle the stuff.
This is no longer use its shits and giggles. It's
fun time. Its carnival coverage. There's a social media post
featuring a Radio New Zealand host which has now been
taken down. It did not meet Radio New Zealand's editorial standards.
This particular person is the co host of their Saturday
morning program. She's snuggling up to Eru Kapakini, who's the
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organizer of the protest criticized by the ACT Party. Broadcaster
Radio new Zealand, funded by the taxpayer, not acting in partially.
Radio New Zealand, in the usual spineless way, is subject
to integrity and conduct standards, including those of impartiality. It's
time these standards were up were enforced. This is the
ACT Party. The social media post did not meet the
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editorial standards, but you're ready for it, but was posted
on a channel not operated by the broadcaster. So that's
the same as this place. So I flop my you
know what out on Facebook and enzid me then go, well,
I'm sorry, it's on Facebook. It's got nothing to do
with us. You think they're going to let me get
away with that? Of course they're not man, you do
one new dive bomb exactly. So that's where the media
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is at, and that's that's my whole thing. And I've
got a very interesting study this morning from the Pure
Research Center telling us why media is where it is,
how they've dug themselves this massive hole, and where everyone's
gone to get their news coverage from, and none of
us given the behavior of the aforementioned what was it
they was saying on TV three, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's gonna be a big day, Jilla, and you're gonna
have a front row seat to it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You enjoy yourself, political leeditor, go and enjoy yourself, and
you wonder why they're in trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I didn't even enjoy having to play that cart back
this morning. I imagine having to hang around with.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That lot cheapest creepers rewrap. So are those people news influencers?
I don't think so. I think news influences these people
that have been banned from mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I do quote unquote the air they say that, and
then now I have to go on to some fringe
website to broadcast their hate and disinformation.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Then we come to the media generally, and this research
I alluded to earlier on this morning out of America,
but it's global. From the Pure Research Center, twenty percent
of Americans regularly get their news from news influencers these days.
Why are they turning off the television? Are just going
to watch the television to see why they're turning off
the television for news and traditional media is going down
the gurgler, unfortunately at a rate of knots. But so
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much of it, unfortunately, is driven that way by the
behavior that's people in the traditional media. Sixty five percent
said they found the information they got from news influences
helped them better understand the world. Forty percent of adults
under thirty who are included in the studies say they
stay informed from independent social media figures. The shift has
been playing out since at least twenty sixteen, part of
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its convenience. Of course, x remain the most popular site.
Eighty five percent of influencer respondents reported being on the site. YouTube,
of course is in there as well, along with Instagram,
So as the old fashioned If you like media dies,
I would argue many of them got no one to
blame but themselves. But you can see from those numbers
where they've gone guys.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Guys, guys, it's as simple just do what I do
and completely ignore the news. It's so much better. It's
so much better for your mental health. I mean, I mean,
obviously I still want you to keep listening to this
podcast and you know, indirectly the Mic Hosking Breakfast, but
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just really focus on the bits that ain't anything to
do with the news.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They are the best bits anyway, rerap right.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So they've had over a year now, has the government
really reformed the way policing happens in this country?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Are the criminals all on the run?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Mark Mitchell said that he'd be out if he couldn't
make changes.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Have the changes been made?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Mark Mitchell, Minister of Police regular on this program, was
doing the beat walk with the coppers in the Capitol.
Yesterday's breaking new crime figures. You will remember he said
he would quit if things don't improve under his watch.
Have things improved under his watch? He says? Yes? I
say he's right. Can you find specific figures and stats
and crimes that have gone up though, yes? But will
you always be able to do that? Yes? Can you
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find figures that have dropped? Yes? But the key metric?
Do you feel better? About crime around you. Does the
same level of fear and sense of things being out
of control pervade the landscape as it previously did under
the last government. I would argue no. Headlined a couple
of weeks ago on the recidibous youth offending being down
though and seemingly knowing why in a sense does it matter?
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Is it possible they've locked a few of the snots
up and when you've locked up, you can't commit crime.
Someone asked me, just over the weekend, when was the
last ram rate? I mean ram raids, if you remember
a very short period of time ago, were a national
and regular scourge. They appear to be largely contained. There
is not a shadow of a doubt that the approach
to policing has changed under the new government, and A
Yurin it is not unfair to suggest that one of
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the most practical, sensible, popular and effective changes the new
government has made is around illegal behavior. Gangs have been
gotten to, laws are being changed and coming to effect shortly.
A lot of the crime stats are trending in the
right direction, and dare I suggest you get the sense
that not only does the public enjoy the approach the
police do too, as Mitchell continues to say, as early days,
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of course, and there is much to do, but we
have to accept, if not embrace, the simple truth that
in a comparatively short period of time i e. One year,
we have seen a marked, if not remarkable change and
the crime landscape, and we're all the better for it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The same you can't stop people doing stupid things. Though.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Outwalking yesterday and there are a couple of young guys
on one was appeared to be on like a motor
criss bike and one was on some avida, very loud
kind of bike, and they were laughing about and.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Whining each other up.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And then as this is a while I'm out walking
the dog and you could hear them doing the little
burnout or whatever they were doing all over the neighborhood,
and then background on the road.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I have become such a grumpy old man, especially today.
Sorry guys, the re rap. Actually, while we're talking about
idiots and motor vehicles, well it's time to update you
on the most stolen car right now.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
While I'm on the broad theme of crime, what cars
are we nicking? Remember years ago, the old Subaru, the
Sabaru was the most nabbed car going.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Last I heard it was.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It became Demoos, but it was Sabaru many years ago.
And then Sabari did a very clever technological thing where
they sort of put a thing in it that sort
of beat beaten, set it off. Then came the Demigo.
But now there's been a complete shift in the market.
So the number one most stolen car in the country
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is the Highlucks. Now, it could be that because there
were so many Highlights or high LuxI as they like
to say a toyota and plural. Because there are so
many high LuxI, that sort of stands to reason that
they will get next. But nevertheless, here's also this comes
from money Hub. By the way, an analysis of stolen
vehicle dart from the police over the last six months.
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Important to point out it's only the stuff that was
reported stolen, so a lot of stuff isn't reported stolen.
One hundred and seventy one Highluks are stolen or highlux
Ie stolen. Top four models see if you can spot
the theme here. Top four models stolen of the High
Ace well, the Highlux obviously followed by the High Ace,
followed by the Ford Courier, followed by the Nissa Nevara.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So it's because they're full of tools, right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Not bad, Glenn, We don't know that for sure, but
they are commercial vehicles hence step.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
By the way, the plural of highlax is actually high
lie highlight.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
My apologies, So seventeen high lie gotten next.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, it's the same logic as you know.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You steal the whole safe from the bank and then
you can spend as much time as you like later
on makes you figuring out how to get into it.
I've been refused to tools make the number of times
very annoying. So Matt Matre hasn't quite solved crime, I think,
but you know, I'm sure it's only.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
A matter of time. I am grampily in hat.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I will see you back here again tomorrow with more moaning.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
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