Why the Slater defamation case is so important for democracy in NZ
Do we want secretly funded fake news campaigns to be able to derail serious public health issues in favour of commercial interests? Is that the kind of public policy debate we want?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The only thing worse than mass shootings
Only thing more grotesque than the damaged gun culture of Amerika & horror of mass shootings are conspiracy theorists who claim these attacks are manufactured. Apart from the insanity of those claims, it white washes the deep cultural changes needed.
It is a denial beneath contempt.
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Wait, what? Can we just go back to that story about Police spying on prison activists?
This story demands far more media attention than it has been given. Please share it widely on your social media networks.
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List of things people believe who are calling for a National-Green Government
The frenzied delusion being coughed up by the corporate mainstream media and their puppets demanding that the Greens work with National would be funny if it weren’t so desperate.
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America’s latest mass shooting self mutilation
Once again, the toxic cocktail of a deeply paranoid culture mixed with a vicious gun industry that manages to tap every deep seated fear of the national identity has reared its ugly head and committed another American mass shooting.
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The who, how, why and ramifications of killing the Māori Party
National used the Māori Party as political camouflage and the policy crumbs the Māori Party received for providing National with that political camouflage wasn’t worth losing their mana over.
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Only middle class activists would wait another 3 years to change the Government
Only middle class activists with cushy public jobs in Wellington that won’t be impacted by a change of Government would cry that Winston isn’t good enough to change the Government.
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Comparing the negotiating teams
The negotiating teams of each of the Political Parties vying to form the next Government say much about the relationship each of the Leaders are needing and how they expect a possible coalition alliance to play out.
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Remember that time Labour identity politics activists tried to expel Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor
Remember the young labour party identity politics activists who signed a letter to expel Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor from Waitangi Day at the beginning of this year?
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When National supporters scream National has the majority – show them this
The Right wing in conjunction with the right wing corporate media are desperately spinning a line that National won the election.
That is a total fabrication.
Here are the facts…