Palmerston North public meeting today - packed out main theatre, packed out overflow hall, people sitting in the foyer - not one mainstream media turned up. They are following all other parties eating ice creams, eating sausage rolls, reporting on who stood by who in a years old photo, showing would-be politicians standing by themselves in front of a microphone announcing “another commission review kumbaya” policy. We have been packing the halls across the country and the main stream media have been complicit in bringing the level of democratic debate down to “who is this in a photo”. We announced just yesterday the removal of the climate tax from fuel - that’s an immediate address to the cost of living of 12-14c off every litre of fuel. Any reporting in the media? ZERO. This is clearly deliberate. It is increasingly hard to not get angry or frustrated let alone disillusioned with where the mainstream media is heading - for the main reason of the people of our country needing to be properly informed about what is happening in our policy debates and politics so they can have an informed vote. That is every kiwis right. And it’s being diminished. Instead they get clickbait, politically driven biased gotcha moments, personality attacks, candidate set-ups, and glossy media driven narratives. NZFirst is the ONLY party who is talking directly to the people across the country and we have been packing the halls every week since March this year. The media can either do their job in this democracy, get on board, or get out of the way of the people and watch on election day how wrong those mediocre media really have been.