I don’t want to go on and on and on about how wonderful Breakfast on TVNZ has become since John Campbell joined because that seems terribly unfair to Jack Tame, but John is such an incredible broadcaster and journalist that he actually lifts every boat.
For too long we have allowed corporate interests and political spinelessness to squander time that could have been spent finding solutions. The time is over. We only have decades now.
So the timeline over the Treasury hack/leak has been clarified. But there’s still an enormous question hanging over all this.
32 years after the Roper Report told us that our Prison system wasn’t working by jailing and punishing too many, we get another Justice Advisory report once again highlighting our debased prison system as deeply damaging, deeply racist and deeply counter productive.
The tribalism isn’t new, the hypocrisy isn’t either (we saw it play out with the free speech debate last year between Chelsea Manning & Southern & Moluneux) but what is illuminating is the depth with which the entrenchment has become.
The poll results last night are the worst possible outcome for pundits because no one has any clear idea which one is right – TVNZ uses 50% landline & 50% cell phones and that methodology suggests something very different to TV3s 75% landline/25% online poll.
The neutering of the Union movement from the radical right wing agendas of the 1990s followed by the nothing Helen Clark did for workers, followed by the subdued fear under the Key has left most Union Leaders too shy to actually demand anything so the explosion of activism from the base has finally put real muscle back into negotiations.
Gen X, (the generation who always get ignored), roared back into life last week by reminding everyone they are a huge target market with a ratings bonanza that has helped ‘Chernobyl’ become the highest rated series ever!
If the SIS doesn’t ‘react’ to threats wtf was their program to spy on Muslims in Mosques?
The vast, vast, vast number of Kiwis who don’t have a Herald subscription won’t hear this story and other media don’t bother competing for the story if it’s behind a PayWall.
If this had been an exclusive on any other news organisation, it would be leading the Breakfast news bulletins.
It isn’t.
Jacinda and Grant will be praying to the PayWall today.