Media Release
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Media must start asking the hard questions
The saying that people get the governments they deserve seems unduly harsh yet, viewing the New Zealand election results
and the staggeringly low voter turnout, perhaps there is some truth to the saying, according to Democrats for Social
Credit Health Spokesman David Tranter.
“However, given the media’s non-coverage of crucial issues during the campaign it is inevitable that the triviality of
so much of that coverage played a significant part in election outcomes by fudging - or completely ignoring - crucial
issues” Mr. Tranter said.
“How else does one explain that a party which has just been given an almost clear majority vote is pursuing so many
policies that are either directly opposed to what so many opinion surveys show - or who appear to have no ideas
whatsoever to deal with such matters as the utterly failed international banking/finance system?
“Given the huge worldwide turmoil over finance and the predictions by many informed commentators that the existing
system is doomed to fail again unless it is radically changed, any half-competent media people would have made a real
effort to elicit from the politicians what their parties stand for on financial policy” Mr Tranter said.
“Surely the public are entitled, especially during an election campaign, to know what all parties intend doing about New
Zealand’s continuing adherence to the centuries-old banking rort which continues to ignore that money, originally
intended as a convenient means of exchange, has become the preserve of the international rip-off banking/finance
industry which ever increases the gap between the haves and the have-nots while racking up absurd, un-payable debts for
most countries, including the supposedly “richest“ nations. It is painfully clear that the Democrats for Social Credit
are the only party with a credible policy on finance but DSC views are consistently ignored.
“Then there’s Nationals’ recent legislation on the foreshore and seabed which puts at risk the public’s right to freely
access the beaches while also compromising access to resources out to the 12 mile limit. Adding insult to injury is that
this policy is a complete reversal of National’s position prior to the 2008 elections. Where was the media’s searching
interrogation of National regarding this outrage?” Mr. Tranter asked.
“A further example is National’s policy of more privatisation of publicly owned assets, typically opposed by around
two-thirds of respondents to opinion surveys. And for what purpose, since history repeatedly shows that, at best, the
selling of public assets merely provides a temporary, superficial massaging of government debt figures followed by the
inevitable long-term worsening of the country’s financial position consequent upon the loss of those assets.
“The growing world-wide frequency of street protests - many of them violent - opposing what people are increasingly
coming to see as grossly unfair systems of government may seem a far cry from New Zealand society, but if the current
divide between the haves and the have-nots is ignored by those in power here it is only a matter of time before the more
disadvantaged in New Zealand are going to see that form of protest as the only course left open to them, just as is
happening overseas” Mr. Tranter concluded.
ENDS