Dear NBR – strike Matthew Hooton down and he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
Shit!
Media Watch
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What happened at the NBR with Matthew Hooton?
Whatever you think of Hooton, as a columnist he has the right to criticise and critique politicians and as long as he doesn’t defame that politician by lying about them, then his right to be critical of a politician is supposed to be sacrosanct and backed 100% by his Publisher and Editor.
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Moment Liam Dann realised his ‘Don’t Panic’ column last month may have been optimistic
For the last decade, to avoid the horror of systemic financial market collapse in 2007/2008, $30Trillion has been printed and pumped into the global economy falsely creating the lowest inflation rates for 5000 years. That seems about as far removed from the concept of sound market fundamentals as The AM Show is from intellectual curiosity.
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The Nation Review: Dear Matthew Hooton – your boy Simon needs you
Simon passed so much evil legislation in 9 years, it’s hard for him to keep track of them all.
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Clare Curran’s Public Media Panel feels like an enormous missed opportunity
We need a panel who will re-invent the public square, not tick boxes in a pretence of looking like something is changing. We need to use TV far better than it’s currently being used in association with social media as solutions and i don’t see this panel managing that.
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That gross 60Minute Interview and Twitter Offence
He may as well have conducted the entire interview with a can of warm Fosters in one hand while scratching his balls through his speedos with the other. I was half expecting him to start asking Jacinda how she got up the duff and whether he could see her ‘socially’.
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Chinese quisling tells NZers to welcome our new Totalitarian Communist Overlords
After I asked why the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind are so mindlessly apathetic when it comes to Chinese influence in our political system, Chinese quisling Stephen Jacobi demands we all go back to sleep.
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Mainstream media don’t ask Mark Mitchell about dead civilians, they do ask him about saving puppies
FFS – will one of you journalists do your actual job and directly ask…
‘Did you or any of your mercenary mates kill any civilians while on tour in Iraq’
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Final push for February TDB contribution drive
We’ve managed to stay on line over our quiet months of Summer and we have a huge announcement for a new media project we are launching next month, but we are still short of what we need for February.
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Fairfax threatened NZ they would gut journalism if we didn’t give them their monopoly and they’ve lived up to that threat
Relying on corporate media to be our fourth estate was always going to be problematic when their focus is on profit over democratic obligation, it’s time for the new Government to seek a new public broadcasting relationship if we are to have watch dogs rather than corporate lap dogs.