Spineless media to blame for banning of Planet Key

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So the Electoral Commission were utterly wrong in banning the only real political satire we managed last year – the hilarious song ‘Planet Key’.

We here at TDB never took our post of it down, but almost every other spineless mainstream media outlet in NZ did, and this is the problem. The Electoral Commission can’t force anyone in NZ media to censor satire, they can only suggest, advise and bitch to you about it. Sure they can contact the cops and report you for a breach, but you can fight the charges in Court. What we saw here was a spineless media simply roll over for the Electoral Commission and self censor themselves.

When you consider all the commercial yuff radio stations just shrugged and accepted this ruling, you wonder where their radical and rebellious edge actually is. This was a sad moment in NZ political satire history, everyone should have told the Electoral Commission to politely go screw themselves when they threw their tantrum, not pathetically just accept their tantrum.

How easy is it to control the people when the media don’t have the courage to make a stand?

The Electoral Commission should stick to what they are good at, which is ever decreasing numbers of NZers voting in elections.

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  1. This video should have been played before last Septembers election ,the Sabin sleaze should have been brought into the open. It might have stopped National in its tracks.

    The latest trade deal to be negotiated is TISA, it will send jobs offshore, allow our economy to be run by corporations and the biggest kick in the butt is pensions will be done away with.

    We are being set up to give all control to the American corporates via John Key,NZ is on the road to poverty and depression ,how did we get conned into having JK as PM? .
    TPP, TISA all cons to take everything NZ and other countries have worked for and built, by secret negotiations John Key is involved in.
    TISA is being negotiated right NOW!
    While we half heartedly protest TPP. John Key must be laughing at us while he negotiates with America to install TISA an even worse trade scam.

    Go to. Economy In Crisis, New Trade Agreement being negotiated in Secret. TISA. See, America’s Economic Report Daily.

  2. I hope you point that out to paul henry if you take up his offer .

    And are the media being gutless ( read terrified ) or are they being genuine quislings to neo liberalism and have pictures of yankee doodle jonky-stien on their bedroom walls ?

    An easy way to control the media would be to grossly over-pay them then threaten to take their pay away if they get out of line . How much do all the Ron Burgandy’s of NZ media get paid ?

    I clearly remember an NZBC reporter telling of how he was threatened with the loss of his job if him and his crew broadcast an interview with my father with regard to amalgamating NZ farmers with urban trade unions . It was one of those hugely popular political movements no one’s ever heard of . Funny that .

    And that was back in the late 1960’s .

    The irony that you use a satire depicting jonky as a hayseed twanging his fork while surrounded by cows isn’t lost on me .

    Why is he not depicted kissing foreign banker arse with an erection while covered in milk , honey and money as he tramples over hungry kids who will be hoping crumbs fall off his pointy teeth ?
    I guess I must have missed something there .
    What are you missing @ Martyn Bradbury ?

  3. Totally right. ‘

    Music is available on iTunes so if you enjoy the satire – support them!

    I hope they do a sequel video and song. So much to sing about in God’s zone!

    Remember ‘splitting image’ the satire show? Was great viewing too, gone. the MSM are at least putting themselves out of business by having such a low brow approach that is alienating more and more viewers.

  4. Who pays the piper calls the tune.
    Didn’t the Nats pour millions into the radio network once ruled by their Campaign Manager? No doubt other nefarious largesse has been passed to other pipers…. no surprises there, are there?

  5. Very true Martyn, I have been thinking about this for a long time, people seem to need reeducation on what good music, art and film is. OMG the airwaves are clogged with saccharine po(o)p, serving not only as propaganda but more as an meaningless anthem to neo-liberal capitalism these days (consume, consume, consume, die, die, die) and the public are wallowing in this shit, and calling it music, art and film. It is idiotic, how does Transformers the movie make so much money it is total brain dead scrape it off my shoe naff shit. I watched an awesome movie called Assault On Wall Street, the German director is calling out the Transformer’s director Michael Bay as a “fucken retard,” not pc at all I know, he’s an outsider. Such a massive vacuum of creative integrity in anything being promoted these days, no music with a powerful political message (except Shihad who didn’t get promoted like fucken lorde) or a more than timely environmental message. Instead the public is served a steady diet of brain-destroying institutional art except mine, ha ha. And I am an outsider of the art scene in boring (NL) NZ, it is embarrassing.

  6. Well as die-hard lefties you and I both know that whoever controls the media controls the masses. Why do you think the first place taken over in revolutions was always the radio stations?

    You talk about a spineless roll over media and you are quite correct. But you also seem to think that once upon a time the media here actually had cojones. I arrived in 1967. I have no memory of an independent media anywhere in NZ. The brown nosed licky-bum nature of journalism was always a striking fact of NZ media.

  7. As today is Good Friday, I hope even agnostics and atheists will take a few moments to honour the memory of a man who p****d off the authorities so much that they crucified him.

  8. How easy is it to control the people when the media don’t have the courage to make a stand? ……… Very easy !

  9. Crucify Key, you crucify the media under his thumb. Crucify the media on Keys pay role, you crucify the backers and corporate magpies. There goes the control of the masses, thereby reversing the role. Start taking out the main interlocking conspiracy, take out Key, collapse that empire of inequality.

  10. I read an interesting tweet from Kim Dotcom that said Newsmedia still owes the government the $43 million it borrowed. Aside from Steven Joyce being a former owner (or something close to that), this fact alone would make it a bit of a neutered political poodle.

    • Bring back McPhail & Gabsby indeed.

      Good post Martyn,

      That shows how Key/Joyce (Goebbels) Propaganda machine hoodwinked all the public and were extremely deceptive as the MSM was also.

      Simply by not pointing out that we are not under a compulsory scheme here at Election time.

      MSM should have actively fought for our free speech , and have always had satire, as good as Planet Key around always in past elections.

      “Face lift” was yet another more recent political satire series, but since the Nasty NatZ high priests of deception took over and corroded our freedoms and free speech to advantage National we must banish these NAZI style extremists forever.

  11. Spineless, or simply compliant.
    My feeling is that the Electoral Commission just gave the pro-National MSM an excuse to ignore some legitimate, accessible criticism of John Key’s Government.
    Imagine if The Feelers had released a song in 2008 called ‘Helengrad’, that was immediately banned by the Electoral Commission – Fairfax and the Herald would have been up in arms about the end of free speech and “political correctness gone mad”.

  12. Thanks again Martyn for keeping on keeping on. Expose the crooks every chance we can get. Wake up the sleeping voters and those blindly following a corporate owned govt that is out to lunch and out of touch.

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    This outlet is not bought or controlled by corporations. They may ? be swayed a bit because I can not figure out why they cancelled two VERY hard hitting and popular shows recently. These were shows that did not hold back and they may have been too much of a threat. Not sure.

    Check out shows like “THE BIG PICTURE” and “MAX KEISER” and previous shows like “BREAKING THE SET” and “THE TRUTHSEEKER ” (on Youtube also) and many more shows on :
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    Their popularity is growing BIG TIME and fast because it is quality journalism that can be trusted and that is an extremely ! ! rare thing.

  13. “The Electoral Commission should stick to what they are good at”

    Changing the lines to suit what ever the current party says?

    Why is Ranfurly and I think Cromwell in the Waitaki electorate??? WTF??
    Who set that up??????

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