Another day, another mass shooting in the US of A *
* but this one involves a media outlet and not a school.
Media
journalism
Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote
Barry Soper in the Herald has fallen for National’s fake news concerning something said by Jacinda Ardern that was taken totally out of context.
Bottom feeding fish redux
Newsroom has released details of media emails sent to the police about the Clarke Gayford rumours.
Then and Now.
Claims that “Russian bots” helped Labour during the 2017 UK General Election…
The right to free speech
This week has seen a number of examples where right wing and religious men have said stupid things and then had their statements defended on the basis that free speech should be protected.
Bullshit upon Bullshit.
Doctors being intimidated.
The political honeymoon that keeps on ending
Media pundits are claiming on the evidence offered by one poll that the Government’s political honeymoon is over. But the same claim was made four months ago.
Gaza
Is it the new by-word for silence?
Still in Denial.
General Tim Keating’s resignation.
The manufacturing of a narrative
The past week has seen the Herald focus on issues concerning Clare Curran to the almost exclusion of anything else, including the perilous state of our Health system and Kim Dotcom’s successful appeal against the last Government’s breach of his rights of privacy.
Love war, fear and hate.
Political power doesn’t respond well when those who are meant to be invisible decide to be visible.
Is youth the new political divide?
There is evidence in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand that youth and not class may be the new political divide.
National’s meh leadership contest
National’s leadership contest is one week old. The latest is a central edict that all candidates have to be nice to each other and a claim that candidates are not offering senior positions to MPs in exchange for their support.
Knighthood Interrupted, and the curious case of New Zealand Defamation Law
Bob Jones is now suing the woman that wants to strip him of his Knighthood over her use of the term “hate speech.” Can we think about perhaps stopping this litigiousness now?
It’s time to embrace nanny state
Rather than apologise, it’s time the Left and the new government embraced “nanny state” as a positive, just as the gay community claimed the previously pejorative term “queer”. A nanny state is clearly economically and socially more efficient. We should celebrate our nanny state and not apologise for it.
Is it OK for a woman with an opinion to host TVNZ’s Breakfast?
It’s great news that Hayley Holt has landed a cool new gig hosting TVNZ’s Breakfast show. It’s not so great that before she […]
Hatchets and Knives.
A little on the (predictable) fallout from Emily Thornberry’s BBC Radio 4 interview.
Media response to Labour’s budget
Media response to the new Government’s mini budget has been overwhelmingly positive.
Another day, another piece of bullshit from someone in the MSM
Misleading the NZ public about a political party, its policy, and how government works actively harms democracy.
Labour to seek consensus over child poverty
Jacinda Ardern intends to reach out to National to try and furnish a bi partisan approach to dealing with child poverty. It is a good idea, but I don’t like her chances.
Revisiting the Chinese-sounding-names story
Data journalist and former Herald reporter Harkanwal Singh talked recently about data literacy and diversity.
The Rugby League World Cup
Something slightly different. Congratulations to the Tongan and Fijian Rugby League teams for playing out of their skins beating the Kiwi league team and for having the most passionate fans.
Heather Du Plessis-Allan wants New Zealand to be more radical
Heather Du Plessis-Allan has shown herself to be a radical progressive in her latest Herald column.
Can Ben Mack please make his mind up
Herald lifestyle columnist has published two recent opinion pieces, the first wondering if Jacinda Ardern will be able to address the many and varied problems the country faces and the second suggesting that the Government is under the control of the extreme right. Can he please make up his mind.
Congratulations John Campbell
Mr Campbell is awarded Presenter of the Year by the Association for International Broadcasting.
The repeal of the Hobbit law
Labour has indicated that as a priority it wishes to repeal the Hobbit law, a clumsy attempt in breach of International Law to prevent workers in the film industry from organising collectively and to divert attention from the fact that the National Government had been played by Warner Brothers.
Turns out voters were pretty chill about it
“Reporters”.
“Once upon a time, in a world far away” we had these people called “reporters”.
An honourable profession, who considered it their job to keep the public accurately and completely informed.
Why Labour may form the next Government
The prospects of a Labour led Government have improved dramatically following the release of the final election results.
Dirty Politics 2017 style
The Greens aren’t going to support a National government, so why is there so much push to make it look like it might happen?
Metiria Turei’s legacy
What she did wasn’t a mistake.
Election night coverage
Some places for lefties to follow the counting and take part in the talking.
The missing story on Collins and the fuel pipe fiasco
The rumours have been going round for a while – but this is an interesting development…
Bryan Bruce’s documentary ‘Who Owns NZ Now?’
Reviewed on Stuff: “Who owns New Zealand now? The NZ On Air-funded documentary that screened on Three on Tuesday, September 12 confronts the housing crisis head on and it’s an eye-opener.”
Kia Kaha Lefties – it’s one poll
Somewhere between complacency and losing hope there’s the mahi that still needs doing.
Rachel Smalley stop telling lies about Labour
I know I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, but this piece by Rachel Smalley is full of lies about Labour. We deserve better journalism than this.