Choosing your fights

My daily news diet is not what it once was.

It was the TV news that lost me first. Too infantilising, too breathless, too frustrating.

The Herald was next. You could look past the reactionary framing while it was being a decent newspaper of record, but once Shayne Currie began unleashing all his tabloid urges on it, that was just too much.

RNZ? Not much at…