Let’s never forget what MediaWorks did to Journalism in NZ
…no wonder NZers are so utterly blind to what is happening in their country.
Martyn Bradbury
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Mainstream media finally catch up to mass surveillance concerns over beneficiaries
The counter productive problems with National’s mass surveillance of beneficiaries is that vulnerable people who are already too terrified to engage with any Government agency will actively avoid getting any help so that the neoliberal welfare state can’t track them down and punish them.
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The evil that is Fonterra
While Fonterra get NZs favourite rugby boof head to sing their praise in TV and while the industry tries to hide the damage they do to our water and environment by flooding the country with cow shit, these buggers have been caught doing this…
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EXCLUSIVE: Dear Netsafe – you can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands
Netsafe demanded that I respond within 48 hours as to whether or not I would comply with their requests for censorship, so let me respond publicly to Netsafe.
You can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands. The content you have asked to be censored is not defamatory and allowing secret censorship of political blogs is the most dangerous and disturbing part of your powers.
This blog ain’t for turning
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Interesting new Poll shows 77% of NZ First voters want Labour led Government & majority want Labour
Two interesting polls out yesterday through Horizon.
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The new media focus on under 30s who have managed to buy houses is life style envy porn
The myths of neoliberalism are vital for it to continue as the dominant ideology, and the most important myth of neoliberalism is that with just some hard work from the individual you can be rich.
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6 months out from 2017 election – why Maori, Women and Youth vote could determine result
The Housing Crisis is still paying political dividends to National as the property speculating middle classes continue to back Bill English, but if Millennials and Gen Xers turn up angry at the polls, it could spell an end to National’s dream of a fourth term.
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Paula Bennett and the Ministry of ‘Yeah-nah’ – why she really hates a tourist tax
I think it tells us something about the failing landscape of journalism in NZ that the National Party can make hard right ideological decisions confronting the nation, and there isn’t the intellectual depth within our Press Gallery to even recognise and call it out.
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All Bill English is saying, is give war a chance: The vicious calculation behind National’s war crime denial
It is insane that we can live in a country where there is a bloody investigation over how a drug dog was shot at Auckland airport but there won’t be an investigation into serious war crime allegations.
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Why Liam Dann’s Gen X pragmatism would be the death of NZ
That’s not a solution, that’s a suicide note to sovereignty. Sometimes pragmatism has its limits and agreeing to property bubble migration settings to justify rupturing our domestic engineering market seems to be that limit.