Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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?
…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.
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.
The tipoff line is suggesting that there is an easy way to hack the overseas voting option on the Government’s website…
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.
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.
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.
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.
…this is the biggest story of the year and yet the bloody Bachelor or Max Key gets more attention.
Let’s just remind everyone what actually happened here.