A beatup non story

I honestly cannot see how this is a story. I mean is it reporting? I don’t know christopher bishop and I dare say our politics are not aligned but I simply do not see the story being worthy of being published:

Reason one: it’s a he said she said classic case. Of who invited who… pic.twitter.com/1wtcmMkdEQ

— Matthew Tukaki (@tukakimatt) April 25, 2026

This non-story was the lead item on every major media outlet. It is not a story. Chris Bishop attended five ANZAC Day services. There was some sort of muckup at another service where someone thought he had been invited, but he had not.

Matthew Tukaki is no fan of the Government. So when he is calling this out as a bullshit non-story, you know it is really bad.

To make the media look good by comparison though, we have Labour activist Greg Presland:

In West Auckand I attended three Anzac day services today. There were Labour MPs at each of them. There were no National MPs at any of them.https://t.co/TWXRRBNbqI

— Greg Presland (@GregPresland) April 25, 2026

Presland gets rightfully savaged in the comments for his incredibly lame attempt to politicise ANZAC Day.

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