These right wing media pundits who keep claiming that Labour+Greens are somehow too left wing would’t know a Left wing position if Zombie Marx rose from the grave and bit them!
With all the focus on populism, it seems to have escaped many of the political punditry in NZ that we already have a populist Prime Minister.
Duncan Greive’s weird scorn of Viceland in the NZ Herald seems less Opinion piece and more Advertorial.
Creamy coffee, artisan doughnuts and art – what’s more to love?
Oh. My. God Viceland on Sky TV 13 is the best thing to ever happen to NZ Journalism.
The live stream of the Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report yielded an incredible insight to how precarious the current state of journalism really is.
Key’s ability to promote empty aspiration and vacant optimism while the social statistics groan under his draconian neoliberal welfare state reforms is truly one of the great political swindles of the 21st century.
The Fringe Festival is the best season for culture in dear old Auckland. The explosion of brilliant performance art gives a beautiful kick to the start of the year and gets the creative juices flowing.
What is the National Government hiding and who are they protecting by refusing to hold an independent inquest into historic and current child abuse by State services?
In other countries with a sophisticated enough media, such threats by Media Corporates would dominate headlines alongside a critical analysis providing insight into how these media monoliths undermine the quality of our democracy. Unfortunately we live in NZ and have a media with the maturity of your average can of coke.