Bless them all, but I don’t care about their yearly sound of one hand clapping orchestra where they pass around their awards amongst themselves like a never-ending pass the parcel for rich people who are all related and already have all the presents. It’s like a suburban Game of Thrones but with less violence and more incest.
While our glorious corporate mainstream media journalists are all busy nursing hangovers from their annual self-congratulary piss up, aka the Canon Media Awards, here’s 3 news stories that need urgent attention from them, if they can pause long enough from patting themselves on the back of course.
Let’s keep James doing what he does best, watering down Environmental policy so that Dairy Farmers don’t feel threatened.
On Media Take we are looking at Australia. We discuss Government policy changes and how New Zealanders are being affected with politician Louisa Wall, founder of The Daily Blog Martyn (Bomber) Bradbury and Broadcaster Alison Mau. Business journalist Rod Oram also talks about the pressures on local journalists from their Australian bosses.
Pointing out the selfishness of a consumer culture that society helped build however is a bit like blaming the P addict while you sell them meth.
Andrew Little was on with Jessica Mutch. She pushed Little on Charter Schools and Maori Prisons because when Maori suggest anything that might be designed by Maori for Maori we know Western Civilisation itself is in the balance and may just tip over the cliff and smash into a trillion pieces that can never be put back together again.
Fuck me but Trump openly threatening Comey on Twitter is just such an extraordinarily frightening escalation after his last extraordinarily frightening escalation…
…there is a very clear rational as to why the Government are labelling this report as pushed by “Left-Wing, ant-Government protestors”, and that is because National discovered through the Epsom Tea Pot Tapes and Nicky Hager that their rump voters hate the messenger far more than they are prepared to hate the message.
This is the political Party who champions individual success and claims that the market will righteously reward those who succeed, yet they won’t apply the basic principles of their own political philosophy to a State owned Radio station who is taking on the private players and beating them.
The corporate mainstream media can’t understand why educated NZers hate them or why they walked away years ago to the internet for better sources of information to hold the powerful to account. Listening to the way Rod Oram was treated by Fairfax and the way those arrogant pricks had the audacity to hold him up as their evidence of being balanced while they were quality gagging him is the final nail in corporate media’s coffin.