Integrating Seamlessly With The Lowest Common Denominator
EVERYONE HAS HAD a good laugh at RNZ’s “Music Strategy” featuring “The Ten New Zealanders”.
Chris Trotter
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Forgetting To Remember New Zealand’s Racist Election.
WHAT’S WRONG with our journalists? Why do so many reporters and columnists memories appear to fail them? Only this morning, the veteranNZ Herald columnist, Brian Rudman, contributed yet another lapse to the Fourth Estate’s growing tally of memory malfunctions. He’s one of theHerald’s best, of course, with years of intelligent and splendidly trenchant commentary behind him, but today’s memory fade is every bit as egregious as the historical deficiencies so apparent in the writing of much younger journalists.
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Jeanette Fitzsimons: 1945-2020. An Assessment
What then, we are left to wonder, did Fitzsimons make of the Green Party in 2020? Did she see it as a source of pride, or as a cause for concern?
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Super Tuesday 2020: “No, no, no, America – you’ve got it wrong!”
Retailing “revolution” in the United States of America has always been a hard sell.
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There’s Method In Shane Jones’s “Racist” Madness.
WHAT IS SHANE JONES trying to do? In speaking so insultingly about the Indian student community he must have known he’d attract the ire of the people he calls “Ngati Woke”. Was he being provocative just for the hell of it, or did he have a more coherent political motive for courting accusations of racism and xenophobia?
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The Response – Not The Call.
Bernie Sanders and his followers have done the United States the inestimable service of bringing together all the planks necessary to construct the most progressive Democratic Party platform in a generation.
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Changing The Climate – One RNZ Broadcast At A Time.
THE LISTENER LONG AGO ceased to be a cultural talisman for progressive New Zealanders.
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Nothing Xenophobic Or Racist About The Chinese Travel Ban
AT FIRST, I couldn’t believe my ears. Morning Report co-host, Suzie Fergusson, was interviewing Isabella Lenihan-Ikin, President of the New Zealand Union of Students Associations (NZUSA).
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MUST READ: Wake Up Call
Behind Peters’ masterfully patriotic sales-pitch, it would seem that there has always existed a hidden but unbreakable connection to a very different New Zealand.
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Little’s Hate Speech Laws Will Destroy This Government.
ANDREW LITTLE has confirmed that the Coalition Government will announce changes to New Zealand’s free speech laws before the election. Clearly, Jacinda Ardern has not been able to persuade her Justice Minister that introducing “hate speech” laws is a sure-fire election loser. Or, perhaps the Prime Minister also believes that attacking freedom of speech is an election-winning strategy.