Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The mainstream narrative of the budget surplus and future warnings for the economy that were revealed in last weeks PREFU were sold to voters as ‘no room for election lolly scramble’. There was much that the mainstream media wilfully ignored in the PREFU.
I back my good friend and hopefully future leader of NZ one day, Councillor Efeso Collins, in his righteous smack down of Easter trading laws in Auckland on The AM Show this morning.
I’m voting Greens because I stand with Metiria and because they are the only Party who are actually promising to do something about poverty in this country. Labour are too gutless and spineless to increase welfare, the Greens have the courage to do that.
Unfortunately I’m not sure the Greens will be able to get to the finish line without self-mutilating themselves into oblivion.
Where do I even begin with this one?
As National strategists desperately scramble to make Bill English seem as empathetic as Jacinda Ardern, Bill’s opened up about his pain.
The only reason the bloody corporate farmers who are intensifying dairy suddenly care about the water is because they sense the outrage from voters at the way they have stolen and polluted our water ways while giving us expensive product because they charge us what they can get off shore.
Jacinda’s popularity is based on hope, emotional intelligence, compassion based reasoning and the ability to connect personally and empathetically to voters. Painting her as emotional and flakey with no policy as Matthew Hooton did when she won the leadership is a sexist wishful fantasy on behalf of the right, and it should be shown the contempt it deserves at the ballot box next month.
The simple truth is that TOP can only implement their policy with Labour, they can’t do it with National, but the TOP electorate are alienated by tribal identity twitter politics so TOP can appeal to them by outraging Twitter.
Imagine if the media held English to account the way they did Metiria?
Lot’s of ’10 years ago today’ stuff last week marking the beginning of the meltdown in global markets as weapons of mass destruction derivatives forced a global market collapse that almost tail spun the entire planet in a steep economic depression.