MEDIA WATCH: A desperate person clutches at online straw polls
This is such a bad poll because it makes the Left feel a lot more complacent than they should. This is an online poll and online polls are pretty notorious with their accuracy.
Media Watch
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Waatea News Column: If we legalise Cannabis, Maori must be given a leading role in industry to influence it
If Māori attempt to look like they are gaining advantage in a new industry, the majority will backlash, if Māori advocate for a system that actively seeks to redress the bias of the old law now by entrenching a system that protects Māori agency, the majority will listen.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Chris Trotter vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Winston Peters, Prince Andrew, End of Milane murder trial, Ihumatao
Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Chris Trotter vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Winston Peters, Prince Andrew, End of Milane murder trial, Ihumatao.
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TVNZ-RNZ merger should make NZME-Stuff merger less likely
NZME and Stuff are desperately trying to rehash their merger and are offering some bullshit ‘kiwishare’ promise to counter the power of a monopoly by promising to ring fence news rooms to keep the plurality of voice.
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Waatea News Column: Armed Police & Cannabis prohibition – 2 examples of bias against Maori
The stats when it comes to Māori cannabis convictions and shootings by armed Police make for sobering reading.
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MEDIA WATCH: The irony of refugees fleeing to NZ only to become beneficiaries and realising NZers hate beneficiaries
Terrible story in the ODT about the lived experiences of refugees felling to NZ to live as beneficiaries, only to realise that NZers fucking hate beneficiaries…
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TWITTER WATCH: Ummm – a National Party MP who seems to think we have 1000 years worth of coal to burn
We suspect that National MPs are all climate deniers, Pugh suggests they are climate morons.
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MEDIA WATCH: If you are pissed about Afghan kids dying because of our military incompetence, wait until you realise we are training Iraqi soldiers who are killing their own citizens
This is just the latest example of how this immoral deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq have stained the honour of our armed services.
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New Zealand Broadcasting Agency: The case for RNZ-TVNZ merger
In the age of the deep fake and troll bot farms, a multi-platform source of journalism you can trust has become essential to a democracy.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Mark Jennings vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Feminism 2020, Jones calling farmers rednecks, media coverage of the Millane trial, Winston Peters hearing closes + NZ First-linked forestry company
This week – Feminism 2020, Jones calling farmers rednecks, media coverage of the Millane trial, Winston Peters hearing closes + NZ First-linked forestry company