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Climate change is a disaster. It's a slow motion train wreck that threatens the future of humanity on the planet, and an indictment of the short-sighted failures of our political systems (and our thinking in general). As widely reported, 2014 was the hottest year on…
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The team at Scoop are running a series called "The State of the NZ News Media - A Public Conversation". The first piece, by Scoop Editor Alistair Thompson, is called "Reinventing News As A Public Right - A Public Conversation". The second, by Alison McCulloch,…
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James Griffin in the Herald has written an article on things that John Key should set out to achieve in 2015. The article is obviously satire and a not too subtle put down of what is business as usual for the PM. Griffin proposes that Key smiles…
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This the time of year when papers are thin and economic prognostications abound as the pop-star economists from banks and brokers look to raise their public profile. In 2013 the same Cameron Bagrie gave us the "rock-star" economy, this year apparently in Wellington we can…
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Much of this post is crowd sourced from this recent discussion on open mike. The discussion concerned why TV3 should seek comment from Cameron Brewer about Labour's advertisement for a Press Secretary. The position is vacant following the resignation of the very talented and dedicated…
Andrew Little David Farrar Dirty Politics journalism labour Media national same old national spin you couldn't make this shit up
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Raif Badawi is a Saudi Arabian writer / activist / blogger. In 2008 he "established Liberal Saudi Network, a now-closed online forum that sought to encourage debate on religious and political matters". You can find out more about his writing here: "a man who risked…
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https://twitter.com/GenerationZer0/status/555925240098729984
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A complete understanding of great events will often have to wait until well after the shouting and the tumult die away and a longer perspective permits a more objective assessment of what really happened. Even then, though, greater elucidation proceeds at a glacial pace. Today,…
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It makes for great reading and throws the net wider than last time... just Check it out here
Abuse of power accountability Satire Spying uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
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(Originally published at Boots Theory.) An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion of his master’s cellphone records: With the large volume of…
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Poverty was one of the major issues in the run up to the 2011 election. There were some major pieces of work on the issue, such as the Inside Child Poverty documentary: Shock look at NZ's child poverty More than 100 New Zealand children who…
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It appears that like New Zealand the United Kingdom is also negotiating with the United States for improved trade access under the benign sounding Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. But they are facing the same issues that New Zealand is facing, including the suggested provision of…
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Emerson in yesterday's Herald:
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How many governments are using the Paris / Charlie Hebdo attack as an excuse to increase surveillance or otherwise remove civil protections? In the UK the Tories certainly are. But PM Cameron's proposals are idiotic - this piece in The Guardian is particularly blunt: Cameron…
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Reposted from No Right Turn We all got a bit of a shock yesterday when the government announced that GCSB Director Ian Fletcher was stepping down for "family reasons". Becuse we all know that "family reasons" is code for "we don't want to tell you what…
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Remember when politicians' kids were off limits to the media? Not any more. There seems to be a bit of an obsession with Stephanie and, in particular, Max Key. An obsession which ONE News takes to a new paparazzi low today: Max Key plays golf…
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An excellent piece by Dame Anne Salmond in the Dominion Post yesterday (Tracey mentioned this in a post yesterday but it is worth further attention!): Erosion of democratic rights In the wake of the shooting of cartoonists and journalists in Paris, political leaders in New…
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The self righteousness of the leaders who marched in Paris was there for all to see, but few in the media decry and point out the hypocrisy. How smug the World leaders feel, marching for freedom of expression and the media which they largely control…
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For family reasons he is stepping down... Nothing to see here says Chris Finlayson, great guy who did a great job Of far more importance is the arrival in yesterdays post of speeding fines for national's supporters. Woodhouse is moving quickly to say the enforcement…
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"Advertorials" are content that is written by some external organisation and inserted into a media publication in such a way that it looks like content, not an obvious ad. The practice is on the rise in news papers, magazines, and TV. A perfectly natural and…
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There was a fascinating interview on Radio New Zealand yesterday where Noelle McCarthy interviewed Political Scientists Bronwyn Hayward and Mark Boyd. Bronwyn is the head of the Department of Politics at Canterbury University and Mark is a Doctoral candidate for a PhD at Auckland University. The…
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Thanks to Key's fast and loose interpretation of proper process, SkyCity have played the government for fools. The Nats probably hoped to sweep the issue under the carpet with the traditional Christmas bad news dump (this year in brand new super-size!). No such luck. Even…
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An estimated one and a half million people have marched in France in support of freedom of the press and in remembrance of those who died at the Charlie Hebdo siege. The march included a number of world leaders whose commitment to freedom of the press…
Abuse of power Europe International journalism Media Politics the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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