The real question behind our horror housing stats – where the hell were the media for 9 years?
How come an avalanche of social damage can build over 9 years and collapse without the mainstream media of NZ noticing for almost a decade?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The headline shouldn’t be ‘National support Bill’ it should be ‘Bill English refuses to let Judith Collins become leader’.
Sources to The Daily Blog have said Bill’s decision to hold firm was because he was utterly against the possibility of Judith Collins becoming leader.
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Another Dow Jones 1033 point meltdown – Don’t Panic/Do Panic – the conflicting messages being fed to the NZ public
We have a global economy that has been fed $15Trillion in quantitive easing, $10Trillion in bonds and the lowest inflation rates for 5000 years. This market is so distorted now that the computer algorithms are mercilessly punishing human greed by forcing massive technical corrections.
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TDB names next Cyclone Gerry
Because climate change is a political problem & not a scientific question, The Daily Blog is naming all cyclones after our MPs and Companies who have done so much to hold back genuine climate change reform
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PART 1: Julie Anne Genter vs Marama Davidson for co-leader of the Greens (plus Lucy Lawless?)
Firstly, how lucky are the Greens to have two spectacular candidates compete in what will be a respectful and challenging contest?
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The new media narrative about Global Warming
I’ve noticed a new narrative line being developed in the mainstream media towards climate change.
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The problem with blaming the computers for the crash
Blame the computers all you like, but also acknowledge that the 10 years of distorted markets due to trillions spent on quantitive easing has created a perfect storm where the AI of the computers becomes ruthless with the greed of the humans.
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Matthew Hooton is now Mongolia’s Honorary Consul in NZ?!?! This wondrous absurdity made today worth living
Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, the actual truth is far weirder than fiction. Hooton has been doing consultancy in Mongolia for a very long time and visited the country as a Uni student.
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The myth about ‘market fundamentals’
What we have isn’t a fully functioning market secure with all the fundamentals, we have a waiting time bomb.
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So what the Unemployment rate really says is we are all working harder and longer for less
There is little to cheer in these stats. We have a part time work force with a Precariat class who are at the whims of a brutal market while the wealthy plump up the medium wage.