Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
This disturbing and violent trend in relation to sports teams loosing or winning, is of course not isolated. In New Zealand when The All Blacks win a game the police reported to the NZ Herald in 2012, that they witnessed an increase in domestic violence.
The mainstream media is squeezing the real story. And the real story is that the Left are showing the much-needed signs of a force to be seriously reckoned with.
The mainstream media got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when a number of Pasifika church leaders were photographed at the Manurewa markets wearing blue, Key-people t-shirts.
The last few months have been particularly bad for the shaming and policing of women’s bodies in the media, both in New Zealand and globally.
Americans call these deictic expressions. The effect is that DC is speaking on behalf of the audience, not to it. The technique is used to build a relationship with the audience. But it also goes further: DC is speaking as if everything he says is issued by “us”, the people. The heavy use of inclusive language opens the speech to the audience and lets them impose their own interpretations on it.
What I do know is that over the years there have been many forms of people wanting us to look at them and “pretend that they’re Pacific”. MP’s show up to church at precisely the 3-year election cycle.
David Cunliffe could be a reconstructive prime minister and lead a big change government.