John Key will flee the country right after Flag Referendum announced (for real)
Part of brand Key is that John Key don’t hang around no losers, even when that loser is himself…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Hold on – Wicked Campers are our biggest issue in Tourism?
I think Wicked Campers are a tasteless, gross, needlessly offensive trash can of a company. The sexist rape culture crap they decorate some of their shitty cars in requires creative vandalism to sort them out. But is that really the big issue in Tourism?
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Hold on – Key is going to illegally use public funds to pay off a defamation case? And that’s not a problem for everyone?
…Key’s appeal is that he’s not like the other politicians which is true, in so much as no other Politician before him has abused power to the levels he and his Office have.
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PM pays cameraman out in defamation case
Bradley Ambrose joins Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager as journalists who have had to be paid out by the Government or employ legal measures after Key has slandered and denigrated them.
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UPDATE: Is the online Flag Referendum easy to hack?
The tipoff line is suggesting that there is an easy way to hack the overseas voting option on the Government’s website…
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What the flag referendum – win or lose – might mean for Key and why the stakes are so high
The results of this vanity project will be out by Thursday this week – for Key, the high stakes game of chicken he is playing with the public will have either two results, he wins his flag choice or he loses it.
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Winston Peters, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump
So let’s be clear about this, going forward. Pretty much every “X IS DONALD TRUMP!” comparison you hear going forward is going to be little more than a petty political barb wrapped up in current affairs like takeaway fish and chips. The only substance involved in many of them is hairspray.
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Interpreting the new Roy Morgan Poll
National’s popularity is kept high due to the property prices going up. Middle class support stops the moment that bubble pops, the Opposition still has some way to go to beat National – but it’s far less pessimistic than the mainstream media or Matthew Hooton are braying.
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NZ mainstream media surprised corporations have enormous power
I like Matt Nippert, he is one of the best journalists we have, but the surprise so many of his peers seem to have had at his piece on how multi-nationals avoid paying tax says more about them than the corporations.
It’s like some have just discovered Santa Claus isn’t real.
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Nicky Hager displays Police destroyed evidence – but the stain still remains
…this is the biggest story of the year and yet the bloody Bachelor or Max Key gets more attention.