Waatea News Column: ‘How Santa Parades became a flash point for racism’
I’ve always felt, as a Pakeha, that just below the surface of the civility of New Zealand culture, there bubbles something pretty bitter in the soul of many white Kiwis.
Media Watch
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TWITTER WATCH: Politicising a death
Everyone seems to want to twist the tragic death of this young visitor to our shores into their own ideological frame work.
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TWITTER WATCH: NZ Twitteratti woke mob silence journalist
…the irony is that if anyone approached the employers of the Wellington Twitteratti and complained about their online bullying they would scream all day about being doxed.
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Print newspaper market shrinks alarmingly, local news gaps widen – JMAD
The 2018 JMAD New Zealand media ownership report finds that the New Zealand print newspaper market has shrunk considerably. The combined circulation of the four largest newspapers plus 15 regional ones declined almost nine percent from September 2017 to September 2018. Since 2012, circulation of the NZ Herald has dropped 36 percent.
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ACTION STATION UPDATE: Has woke Twitter & the Greens called for the crucifixion of Rachel Stewart yet?
A very interesting column from Rachel Stewart in relation to the anger the trans argument manages to spark off.
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TWITTER WATCH: File under ‘Nuance’
The group behind the expulsion of the Police at Pride have some interesting ideas on crime and punishment that are worth investigating, but their position on child rapists is, how do I say this politely, well, ummmm, ‘interesting’…
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Has Mark Zuckerberg finally gone too far?
Smearing Facebook critics as linked to Soros and hating Jews is charming but if anyone else had pulled a stunt like this, they would be gone, Facebook somehow manages to remain untouched.
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Trans Activists vs Rainbow Community vs Mike Hosking (this is what it sounds like when the Doves cry)
As the wider and older Rainbow Community look to their legacy of inclusion being over run by a new generation of millennial activists who want to exclude, the wider issues of ongoing injustice against Trans people and how to fight for their human rights on social media platforms algorithmically fuelled by subjective outrage olympics remain unanswered.
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Why RadioLive failed
The commercial media market in NZ is at saturation point with right wing pundits and Radio Live never offered an alternative to that and ended up trying to compete for ZB listeners using bait that was not as right wing as ZB could produce.