To be honest I bit my tongue at the time and waited for the giants of our media landscape to step forward and say something. Because you know, what happened was terrible and it demanded a response that had all our Journalistic best and brightest lining up to turn attention onto what occurred and to denounce it in no uncertain language.
Surely the NZ Government has to assure us the people that the surveillance powers they are about to grant the GCSB and the SIS can’t be misused by foreign spy powers, otherwise everything they are gathering is effectively intelligence for the Americans.
Jacinda appeals directly to the generation who don’t vote and she has built a huge social media presence. Andrew Little is not so shallow and needy that he has any problem sharing the lime light to reach out to electorates Labour have lost.
The day to day sexism, the gender pay gap, the double standards, the lack of justice when it comes to sexual assaults and the domestic violence rates all conspire to create an ongoing civil war against women.
The grim reality that policy is built for baby boomers and the rich is blindingly obvious to 18 year olds who have a cynical view of politics. The difficulty in getting them to engage is that they are actually right, the system is built by those who profit from it and numerically that’s baby boomers.
With shorter life spans, it is unethical to allow Maori, Pacifica, working class and unhealthier generations to wait two more years to get to Super so National can bribe the electorate with tax cuts that benefit the rich.
Q+A and The Nation return for 2017 this month, so the line up of political news shows on TV amounts to a dozen shows in Election Year.
How depressing.
So here’s the 12 NZ mainstream media news shows ranked from worst to best
English has clearly fumbled Superannuation and rather be seen as being too weak to change things, he’s decided to go all in and signal a rise in eligibility to 67.
What English has in fact created are neoliberal welfare state agencies that are more aggressive than a Police Dog on meth. The beneficiaries are terrified of talking to any government agency now because that information goes to everyone and suddenly the beneficiary who is asking for help from Housing NZ are then facing a bill from WINZ for a relationship they didn’t disclose.
What many Journalists still don’t appreciate about English is that he is a hard core ideologue. He sees superannuation as simply the next benefit to attack, just like CYFs, just like state housing, just like public prisons.