Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Beneficiaries are treated little better than cattle by a large number of burnt out frontline WINZ Staff, and adding to that underfunded hopelessness are counter-productive policies driven by ideology and not empirical evidence.
I don’t buy complex and convoluted conspiracies that require the planting of explosives etc etc etc, but I certainly believe no one exploited this tragedy with quite as much ruthlessness as the Bush administration and their military industrial complex allies.
Every time Key is challenged on poverty or inequality, his default position seems to be to blame it on drugs.
I’m no prude. What consenting adults wish to do in the privacy of their own lives is their own business and no one should be judged or penalised for that, but that’s not really what happened here is it?
It was fascinating watching the media response and the social media response at the same time. The mainstream media ran huge headlines for the supposed sexts and juicy details, yet there were no similar headlines when it turned out that Williams hadn’t actually seen this sext message.
Unfortunately the dildo collection of a rich woman on Real Housewives of Auckland can generate more media attention than a Government’s continuos manipulations.
The speed with which the National Party have conned the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind to just hand over their civil rights is truly astonishing.
If all RNZ and The Nation can muster is a regurgitation of vested interests from a bunch of candidates whose positions are well entrenched, then what’s the point of doing the debates in the first place?
The grim brutality of America’s genocidal war against Native American’s has been thrust into the spotlight this week by the violent protests in Dakota on behalf of an Oil giant against the local Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…
The National Party have lost total control of Parliament today in one of the worst cock ups I’ve ever seen.