Kate Hawkesby: I'm not sure when the 6pm news decided to be a promo channel for gangs

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 14, 2023 · 3m

I'm not sure when the 6pm news decided to be a promo channel for gangs, or why they wanted to spend so much time eulogising a gang leader, but I thought the way that Mongrel Mob tangi was covered last night was disgraceful.

We've lost the plot in this country - and we wonder why we have gang problems.

The coverage looked like a recruitment drive or a PR video for the gangs. We got so ill served as viewers, the real news was not what a great man other gang members or whānau thought he was, it was not to display endlessly all their patches and motorbikes and burnouts like they're some kind of…