Waatea News Column: Dear Labour – keep the Police on a short leash or the people will turn on Jacinda
This week we found out the NZ Police were using questionable mass surveillance facial recognition without any permission whatsoever.
Media Watch
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Te Ao with MOANA – “Something is seriously wrong with the decision making of Government” Professor Jane Kelsey
Emergency powers need proper scrutiny. We don’t have that here.
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Rebuilding Paradise review and Mark Jennings current affairs blindspot
News Guru Mark Jennings has produced a great interview with Paul Henry over his month long stint on Rebuilding Paradise.
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Ummm – so we need to talk about Tova O’Brien’s conspiracy allegation the MoH are lying to us about the pandemic
The only way this could be a worse day at the office for Newshub’s standard of journalism would be if that office was in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
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Te Ao with MOANA – “Checkpoints are a health risk” Plunket, “What a load of rubbish” Moana
Sean Plunkett and Moana shared their honestly held opinion on the value of community checkpoints.
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MEDIA WATCH: Soooooo – why would we allow a foreign owned media company to buy another foreign owned media company for just $1?
Big ideas are needed, but allowing one foreign owned media conglomerate to have a monopoly over the entire newspaper market is NOT a solution.
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TWITTER WATCH: Ummmm, so the US Treasury Secretary is in a twitter fight with Axl Rose – this is who we are now
We are staring into a chasm of insanity and think this is normal.
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Te Ao with MOANA – What does Level 2 mean for us?
Sarah Hall breaks down what today’s announcement means to Aotearoa. We hear from Dr Rawiri Jansen, Dr Matt Roskruge and Te Reo Māori advocate and father, Jeremy MacLeod.
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Waatea News Column: Maori Party asks Simon Bridges where are the Maori voices?
Last week, Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer demanded to know where the Maori voices on…
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Does NZME’s last gasp for newspaper monopoly spell doom for Stuff?
Clearly NZME knows something that the rest of the market doesn’t.