Good satire attacks those in power, rather than punching down on the weaker members of society. NZ media don’t criticise or attack power, they suck up to it so sharp satire like John Oliver can’t get funded or supported in NZ.
…of course no one saw anything!
It’s not because corporate media are de facto members of Key’s Caucus, oh no – the bias is simply ‘structural’ rather than ‘political’.
Everywhere you go John, we will be there to protest loudly and angrily. Everywhere.
I’m not sure what Richie is running to.
The story told by stuff is of a popular Key being mobbed by fans at Big Gay Out and the Opposition making obligatory visits…
We hate poor children right? We blame their parents for being hungry (despite welfare purposely calculated so that beneficiaries are hungry), we blame parents for their kids freezing to death in cold houses (despite privatising state houses and subsidising slum lords) and we blame poor kids for underachievement (despite under resourcing public education).
..what a shallow, baseless society we have become when the war on drugs trumps basic reason.
Where the 4th estate has failed, the 5th estate must succeed. Next week a new current affairs show to go up against Story and Seven Sharp at 7pm will be announced. If you want to help this new endeavour – spread it on social media.
…I don’t use the word fuckwit often, but it seems the only possible response to this foolish idea.