Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
…the damage Slater and his Dirty Politics advocates caused is still reverberating throughout the NZ political spectrum. The manner in which he was empowered by the NZ mainstream media has never been examined and no one has ever been held to account.
Trump is not the first President to place cheap oil and unregulated corporate greed above the public good, but he is the first to be naked in his championing of those interests without the pretend crocodile tears.
The mad cult worship of consumerism that is Black Friday on a warming planet is a cultural tumour. The White house dropping a major new report showing the full impact climate change will cause on Black Friday is heavy with symbolism…
Throw 3 seperate issues together and try and sweep them all under the carpet at the same time so the Government doesn’t have to show any real courage either way on any of the issues.
You don’t beat the negative populism Trump has harvested with a candidate like Hillary who is wedded to the neoliberal economic framework that has built that resentment and cultural alienation, you only beat that negative populism with positive populism.
As sponsor after sponsor after sponsor march out of the Pride Parade, those Trans Activists advocating for the exclusion of Police in uniform have desperately attempted to broaden the justifications of exclusion because the ‘uniform might trigger Trans people’ argument has looked increasingly flakey.
…my first thought was that Lizzie Marvelly, Alison Mau, Marama ‘white dudes delete themselves’ Davidson and micro-aggression policing millennials at The Spinoff had joined forces and had called Santa out for his heteronormative white cis male privilege, I mean how many other women and people of colour can just break into your house in the middle of the night and hang out with your kids?
…maybe racism this bad just needs the bash?
This smells fishy like political corruption.
We must remember based on the overseas experience, it is people power that has forced cannabis reform, not political leaders, so if we are serious about getting a legalised market in NZ and get the cops out of our lives, it will be people power here that forces the reform.