Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Newsroom NZ recently claimed social media’s ability to turn elections was overblown because research shows it can’t persuade people who have already made up their minds. What such analysis utterly misconstrues is that the Right aren’t using social media to persuade anyone, it is using it to find older white male voters who don’t vote!
Judith has a new tell all book coming out and rumour has it that the title is ‘Stabbing Simon in the face’.
On a rapidly warming planet, NZ will increasingly be the life boat for Earth and the tyranny of our distance will become our blessing.
Simon Bridges kicked things off yesterday by making the first strategic blunder of the 2020 election by going waaaaaaay too early in ruling NZ First out.
One of the original members of the Fish n Chip Brigade that built the neoliberal NZ we know today has passed.
In a move that increasingly shows how serious this situation is becoming, NZ has announced the blocking of travellers from mainland China…
Simon Bridges has made the announcement today that he is ruling out cutting a deal with NZ First post the 2020 election.
The Republican Party is held hostage by Trump’s egregious corruption and toxic self-aggrandisement. For them to intellectually lower the bar so low is not the philosophy of supporters, it is the mantra of the hostage.
Watching National & Labour sock puppets on social media arguing over who is going to build the most roads only highlights the low horizon imagination NZ politics has descended into.
In 2016, John Key was in a bit of a pickle.