I sometimes give the NZ Herald the epithet Waikato Invader in recognition of its origins: a newspaper established by Auckland business interests to press the case for a war of colonist oppression and confiscation and annihilation.
Not that they put it that way. But that’s what it was.
Its response over the weekend—the Waikato Invader— to a vast coming together of tangata whenua, a gathering of enormous meaning and power and emotion, was to all but ignore it. Given their extensive front page coverage of irate white men on tractors in recent times, it's hard not to see bias.
