Over the last few days the online news media have been getting increasingly wound up over some Australian expat guy who’s apparently said some rude things about New Zealand on his blog.
I usually don’t bother with this kind of insufferable tabloid crap, but as the outrage continued my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to have a look. And it’s even more mundane than I expected.
I mean, the guy’s talking about his bike rides in Eskdale, complaining that Rotorua smells and saying something about how New Zealand breweries don’t put enough hops in their beer.
It’s all a bit bloody pedestrian to be honest. Why our media think it’s worth whipping up a national outrage over is beyond me.
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