None of these male broadcasters have had to deal with the horror and cruelty of WINZ. None of them have had to crawl on their belly in a demeaning manner to just pay the bills. They have no idea of the life Metiria had to live, yet in they go with all the judgmental beneficiary bashing neoliberal cultural hate that has become the corner stone of most mainstream media.
Being on the State Broadcaster carries obligations to the taxpayers who have built that asset up, which means his salary should be transparent.
NZ First’s extraordinary claim that deciding the fate of the Maori electorates with a binding referendum is not only dog whistle politics at its worst, it’s also incredibly unfair and utterly unjust.
This mornings offering managed to scrape a barrel lower than their normal standards by having Shane Jones as a guest. The Jonesy, the great waa waa of the North, the orator of Whangarei was on blowing hard on gangs boxing.
Grandad is on twitter again, this time Winston’s bizarre twitter storm against Metiria has to be read to be believed…
George Orwell argued that power is defined by the ability to inflict pain. It is, therefore, vital that those who wield decisive power in our society be insulated from the social pain that secures it. To preserve their dominance we, the vast majority of citizens, must be persuaded that the people in charge are just like us – ordinary, decent Kiwis. And that all will be well in our beloved country so long as enough ordinary, decent Kiwis “get together” – and vote for the National Party.
Hi, wrote this in response to SpinOffs article talking about 7 things that will stop the left from winning. Thought it might raise some interesting points for some of your bloggers.
Under its broadcasting standards Radio NZ is supposed to reflect both sides of the argument. It has totally failed to do this and has only reported one side of the argument providing the false impression that it is business-as-usual when it comes to the Antarctic. We are told that calving happens all the time, that this is “normal” – an in this regard I could hardly believe my ears when the Arctic was mentioned. This was not verging on but has crossed the line into climate change denial propaganda.
Today our blogs and critical analysis of the Green Party kamikaze attack on NZ First led news headlines, but the way they were used says very different things about the news outlets who used them.
Here is Paddy Gower being Paddy Gower…