More Green media manipulation

Fresh from having conned the Waikato Times into profiling his partner as a swinging voter who has decided to vote Greens, their Hamilton East West candidate Max Coyle has sent this e-mail out to various people:

New announcement in the Max’s Daily Green Machine Mission group:
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One of the easiest ways for us to get good steady stream of Green presence in the media is when a good letter to the editor is published.

It’s always a great feeling when your letter is published!

Not only do you get the 3 stars for this mission but there’s also newspaper specific missions you can grab stars for too, check em out

https://my.greens.org.nz/greenmachine/write-a-letter-to-the-editor

Have a wonderful weekend machinists and a huge kia ora for all your work!

So the Greens have actually set targets for each newspaper in terms of how many letters to the editor they want. No, that isn’t manipulation. All parties encourage supporters to write letters, but as far as I know only the Greens assign targets per newspaper, and have an online tool which presumably will insert stock slogans and phrases to use.