The Daily Blog Open Mic Saturday 4th April 2015

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  1. Paul Henry’s show is going to be hideous. Snickerfest and innuendo, put-downs and bullying, right wing cant and unpc mouthpiece for the rabid right neoliberals …. New Zealand’s Tea Party….

    Corporate Control of the Media

    “Few people would disagree that information is pivotal for a democratic, free society. When dictators seize power one of the first things they do is seize the TV stations and close down opposition newspapers. As is often said, a free press is essential for a free society. More broadly,
    the way the media and communication — newspapers, magazines, television, radio, the arts, etc.– is owned, produced and controlled has pervasive consequences for the character of public debate, the attitudes people form towards social issues and social conflicts, and ultimately the possibilities for various kinds of social change to occur in a democracy. The problem of how the mass media is controlled, therefore, is a fundamental problem for a democratic society.”

    • ….and isn’t TDB an oppositional media outlet?

      Better inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in?

  2. I’ve taken to reading Australian rather than UK edition of The Guardian online. I’m sure that the UK election is important, and a loss for the Conservative party there will be a good omen for our removing our own tories from government. However, it is pushing all the other news down the page a lot, and there’s still a month to go.

    Another advantage of the OzG is that the time stamp is on the same day as I read it (though 2 hours behind, which is still better than having to mentally add 12 or so hours, depending on daylight saying, to the UK stories). Also they have better coverage of pacific stories, such as:

    The 11 women, who were aged between 14 and in their 80s when the alleged crimes took place, are among 137 local Enga women and girls who had previously been compensated by Barrick Gold Corporation, after allegations of sexual violence, including gang rape and imprisonment, by armed security guards and police officers at the Porgera mine.

    Most of the 137 women accepted the company’s offer of a compensation package under a “remedy framework” set up by Barrick as an alternative to the local judicial system, after a Human Rights Watch report in 2011 identified a pattern of extreme sexual violence by security personnel at the mine.

    But 11 of the women initially refused and argued that the compensation – on average 23,630 kina, which amounts to $8,743 – was not adequate to remedy the multiple and continuing traumas they had suffered.

    One, who was 14 at the time of the alleged rape in 2010, said what happened to her halted her education and ruined her reputation and chance at marriage in her culture. She said she wanted sufficient compensation to start a life for herself and daughter elsewhere.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/03/canada-barrick-gold-mining-compensates-papua-new-guinea-women-rape

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