Syria: the mendacities of the mainstream media (part rua)
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” – Eric Hoffer, 1902 – 1983
Frank Macskasy
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Syria: the mendacities of the mainstream media (part tahi)
“The first casualty when war comes is truth…”
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Is this the Political Cartoon of the Year?!
Can this political cartoon from a Fairfax community newspaper be the most insightful and damaging to National, ever penned?
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It is ten seconds to midnight
As predicted by many, Trump has not waited for an investigative team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to carry out it’s work. This despite an OPCW team having already landed in Damascus to conduct it’s investigation.
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One minute to midnight?
At the time of this blogpost being written, the US has not initiated a military response in Syria. As at midnight of 12 April, a little blue marble called Planet Earth is still in one piece…
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Newsflash: apparently our public hospital system is in crisis?!
Regardless of headlines, the content confirmed years of media reports and countless blogposts on The Daily Blog, The Standard, and elsewhere, that New Zealand’s public healthcare system was critically under-funded; over-stretched; and staff were burning out from over-work. The story confirmed nine years of National’s gross under-funding and mis-management of the health system as successive ministers demanded that DHB managers and health-workers “do more with less”;
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What’s up with Richard Griffin and National’s Melissa Lee?
The recent furore over the so-called “secret” meeting between broacasting minister Clare Curran and RNZ’s Carol Hirschfeld revealed that Board chair and former National government advisor, Richard Griffin, phoned National MP, Melissa Lee to inform her that Ms Hirscheld had tendered her resignation. This barely reported event raises several questiins that have yet to be fully answered;
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National pissed off: Labour is nicking John Key’s dodginess!
When it comes to dodgy deals done behind closed doors – or at “informal” events – nobody does it better that National.
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Worse than “fake news” – sloppy news!
Sloppy as in: where a supposedly reputable mainstream media outlet presents a news story, but with a glaring error. Case in point, TVNZ’s story on 25 March, reporting that “$1.7 million of taxpater’s money had been spent last year on airfares and escorts to deport overstayers – more than in any of the last five years”;
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Mark Mitchell – Flights of fancy?!
Former Defence Minister; failed National Party leader aspirant; one-time mercenary-for-hire, and current (for the moment) National defence spokesman, Mark Mitchell, may have opened a 44-gallon drum-of-worms with his assertion that Coalition Defence Minister, Ron Mark, has been “using the Air Force as a personal taxi service”.