Wait, what? Hosking is blaming Clark with an e for Con with an e’s column?
…Hosking is criticising Clarke for responding to a fellow Herald’s character assassination as if it’s Clarke’s fault????
Media Watch
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The Ben Bohane photo that Facebook censored on an article about Indonesia
The original version of this photo, of West Papuan nambas (traditional penis gourds), which was published in the weekend edition of the family newspaper Vanuatu Daily Post and then by Asia Pacific Report, was deemed to have breached Facebook’s “community standards”. The photo was by award-winning photojournalist Ben Bohane, who lives in Vanuatu and whose work was published recently in the PMC book Conflict, Culture and Conscience.
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After character assassinating Clarke with an e – is the NZ Herald now just a blog with Trolls?
The Herald have had the audacity to pick up on their own columnists smear job on Clarke with an unnamed ‘story’ covering the outrage they created.
Clickbait using clickbait.
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Even for Deborah Hill Cone, this is petty & spiteful
I’ve grown to like Deborah Hill Cone. The neurotic insightfulness of privilege after two bottles of white wine on a Wednesday in Devonport mixed with prescription drugs never sounded so self assured.
There are times she soars with enlightenment, cheers with genuine humour and preaches with conviction.
This hate column attacking Clarke Gayford however, sure as fuck isn’t one of them.
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It’s fair to compare Heather du Plessis-Allan to Ann Coulter
It’s fair to compare Jacinda to Trump in that they are part of the same species, breath oxygen and both have two legs and two arms.
The similarities end there.
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Poisoned spies, diplomatic mocking and hate speech: Tova O’Brien doesn’t like Jacinda much does she?
Tova is of course free to take the lines of inquiry she wants, she is the Political Editor of a main News Network, it is utterly her prerogative, but the results seem to be cheap headline gotcha’s rather than meaningful comment.
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The vomit inducing Lotto advert
Isn’t that just so Kiwi? Cheap, underfunded and requiring a vice tax for social good
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As they whine they weren’t consulted – never forget that NZ Oil & Gas voted to give nothing to Pike River families
Rachel Stewart has once again proven why she is this country’s best columnist (it is so weird that she wasn’t included in this years media awards yet an over rated mummy blogger and Ben Mack eye-rollingly were) with this damning indictment on the NZ oil Industry…
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Can someone please read the Bible to Duncan Garner and Israel Folau?
To be honest, I don’t think Israel understands the Bible he’s standing up for any more than Duncan does.
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The Daily Blog April contribution drive
We have a huge media project TDB are about to launch in the next couple of months which will be the biggest thing we’ve ever attempted, but we are still needing to get to that point and fighting the Police takes up time and energy.