Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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.
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.
Right wing climate deniers will snarl this is just another report from delusional lefties, however, that’s not true…
The Climate Crisis demands we radically shift from dairy but we don’t, so the bottom of the market falling out of the entire industry may well be the impetus for change.
The spectre of the last crash and how close it came to plunging the NZ Shire into Mordor haunts The Reserve Bank, Orr can’t forget that fear as he battles the banks.
Labour & Green voters don’t need to be so tribal about this – Treasury fucked up, not the Government!
Brian Tamaki is not the messiah, he’s just a very stupid boy but the only winner of pink on pink friendly fire is him – he comes across as less nasty than the latest rainbow schism – it’s like social media was created to show us at our worst to our political enemies.