3rd Degree & Native Affairs review

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3rd Degree was disappointing. Again. The only highlight was another good story by the only star of this show, Paula Penfold, about the head injuries rugby causes. Boring story about a billionaire buying up vineyards, and a piece about the brilliant fake doco ‘Propaganda’ that Media 3 did much better a month ago.

Oh and Duncan and Guyon flirted aggressively with each other again.

I just wish they would go out on a date and get it out of their system.

Native Affairs on the other hand was current affairs at its best. A brilliant investigation on how racist our cannabis laws are with a fascinating panel discussion that really carved into the issues in a way the mainstream media never do.

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Excellent story on the injustice of throwing transgender people into male prison where they can be raped. Could not believe Anne Tolley’s position that no rapes ever occur.

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She is bewilderingly out of touch.

Paula Bennett interview is on. Mihingarangi Forbes does a great job of asking hard questions, but I think that the only way to do a Bennett interview is to attack her directly…

INTERVIEWER: “Minister, this is all just beneficiary bashing bullshit isn’t it? You can’t directly dog whistle against Maori anymore, so you do it using code and that code is ‘beneficiary’ and you pop out a new hardline angle everytime the Government needs a distraction don’t you”?

MINISTER: “I find that grossly offensive…”

INTERVIEWER: “What’s grossly offensive Minister is going onto a talkhate radio show like Michael Laws to discuss limiting beneficiary mothers and their daughters from having children. You chose him as a vehicle because you were divisively redneck dog whistling weren’t you Minister?”

etc etc etc.

Don’t allow her to “Yeah, nah” her way out of the horror she commits.

Beautiful wee story on the end about sheep shearing. Gold all round.

Native Affairs is by far the best current affairs in NZ. Intelligent, clever and genuinely attempting to hold the powerful to account.

You can not pretend to be up to date in NZ if you are not watching Native Affairs.