Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The last time we blindly followed Britain into claims of weapons of mass destruction we invaded Iraq, I’m not saying Putin isn’t capable of using a nerve agent to kill a spy, he most certainly is, I’m saying that to date we have had no independent verification whatsoever of what has happened here and unless Britain is holding back evidence they have, it makes no sense rushing into start geopolitical fights.
We can not allow a victim porn media to promote victim culture to the point where compassion and redemption are eclipsed and extinguished by anger and vengeance.
Matthew Hooton is braying in the Herald that Jacinda is stumbling from crisis to crisis. That’s only true if you define crisis as things that piss off Mike Hosking.
I preferred Hooton when he was on the NBR behind a paywall.
We’ve gone from leaky homes to leaky buildings. Thank you National Party, looking at the obscene truth of your underfunding over the last decade, we now know how you managed all those budget surpluses.
This is a kind of insanity.
…ok, so we can’t find any Russian Spies to expel, soooooooooooooo what about any Chinese Spies?
The media focus on the insignificant and judge the Left at a threshold far higher than they ever held National to account.
The simple truth is that the Oil Industry not only has to go, we have to fine them heavily before they go.
Some will say Hirschfeld quitting is unfair but if it had been Judith Collins meeting Richard Griffen in a secret off the record meeting and then RNZ announced a new content sharing deal with Kiwiblog, there would be all hell to pay, but the bigger political issue for Labour is how the hell this leaked out?
If only poor people needed an expensive place to keep their boats – then we’d build them houses!