Wednesday, 17 December 2025 10:25

Rural bias?

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: After years of ever-worsening results from our education system, the startling results from a maths acceleration programme stood out like a dog’s proverbials – the trial producing gains of one full year in just 12-weeks.

Despite this, the country’s major media outlets ignored the story, preferring to cover woke principals who prioritise ‘Te Tiriti o Waitangi’ in schools over achievement.

Luckily this sort of selective media bias doesn’t exist in rural media, right?

Wrong! Just ask Groundswell, the Methane Science Accord or any other group not toeing the establishment line how often rural media, other than Rural News, will cover their activities.

They don’t, preferring to run the party line from the Wellington ag-establishment they are joined at the hip with.

Your old mate reckons these chinless wonders have forgotten their job is to challenge the powers that be, not parrot them.

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