NZOA: National par for course

Of course National has spooked our broadcast authorities over "political bias" around the election. National, like much Conservatism, is no lover of true free speech or, indeed, of a "free market of ideas". As all purportedly market-driven ideologies turn out, they are as interventionist as any social-democratic governments, and much more likely to intervene, or threaten to (in the guise of protecting democracy), on behalf of their interests as an Labour-led government. Remember - free market ideologists legislate , and free market ideologists define free speech as that of the propertied classes. Once one has understood this, the media brouhaha becomes comprehensible!