TDB 2019 Media Awards
It was another year of mediocrity ruling and the banal winning in media.
Media Watch
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The Spinoff witch trial ends in sexual assault inquest that finds serious questions of credibility
So this Spinoff hit job destroyed the young staffer, destroyed the President, defamed Simon Mitchell and allowed the insinuation that Jacinda covered it all up, all in the name of middle class woke feminism and hashtag activism?
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The modern rule of politics post Corbyn – woke social media is death and white males quite like their privilege thanks
The modern rule of politics post Corbyn that easily intimidated Journalists frightened of invoking social media lynch mobs & desperate politicians trying to win need to appreciate: If it’s popular on woke Twitter, it’s electoral death.
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MEDIA WATCH: NZME/Stuff merger vs the Duncan-Grieve-Centipede-NZ-on-Air-funded-echo-chamber Syndrome
I’m just assuming Fairfax now donates to the NZ First Foundation.
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TWITTER WATCH: National’s social media misinformation campaign a new dark dawn for NZ Politics
The structural reality of how National intend to make this the most negative election ever by playing directly to that negativity must be consistently pointed out and explained to our whanau so that they don’t get scammed into voting hatefully in 2020.
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Waatea News Column: Why is the Politics of Kindness failing our poorest children?
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…
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Waatea News Column: ODT Cartoon outrage misplaced
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Chloe Swarbrick vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Cannabis Referendum, ODT Cartoon, latest poll & Folau saga
‘It’s like having a cocktail’: Sean Plunket, Chlöe Swarbrick find common ground on weed Radio host Sean Plunket –…
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MUST READ: Professor Wayne Hope – Our Public Media Crisis
New Zealand’s entire media system is in crisis and public media institutions are struggling to survive. What follows is a step-by-step analysis of where we stand and what might be done.
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MEDIA WATCH: BSA ‘Jew’ ruling really, really, really bad
I think the BSA needs to reflect on this ruling because it’s pretty outrageous to say it and even more outrageous to shrug over its use.