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EXCLUSIVE: Dear Netsafe – you can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands
ByMartyn Bradbury 6 April 2017

Netsafe demanded that I respond within 48 hours as to whether or not I would comply with their requests for censorship, so let me respond publicly to Netsafe.

You can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands. The content you have asked to be censored is not defamatory and allowing secret censorship of political blogs is the most dangerous and disturbing part of your powers.

This blog ain’t for turning

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The new media focus on under 30s who have managed to buy houses is life style envy porn
ByMartyn Bradbury 4 April 2017

The myths of neoliberalism are vital for it to continue as the dominant ideology, and the most important myth of neoliberalism is that with just some hard work from the individual you can be rich.

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Why TDB has walked away from Google Adverts
ByThe Daily Blog 3 April 2017

You might notice the site looks a bit different today, we’ve dumped our google adverts.

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Why Liam Dann’s Gen X pragmatism would be the death of NZ
ByMartyn Bradbury 2 April 2017

That’s not a solution, that’s a suicide note to sovereignty. Sometimes pragmatism has its limits and agreeing to property bubble migration settings to justify rupturing our domestic engineering market seems to be that limit.

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Q+A Review: Why Gen X and Gen Y are the bitter neoliberal harvest we can’t ever mention on mainstream media
ByMartyn Bradbury 2 April 2017

The most amazing part of the discussion was how the mainstream media pundits and TVNZ staff refused point blank to consider that the Gen X and Millennial disgust and aversion of politics is a perfectly normal and rational response to the out right greed and contempt of the current political landscape because of neoliberalism.

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Mainstream Media complaint over Hit & Run
ByThe Daily Blog 31 March 2017

I am writing to complain about a story and associated comment by Barry Soper relating to our book Hit and Run. The story says that we were wrong about a type of weapon cartridges pictured in a
photo in the book and that this casts a shadow over the accuracy of the the book.

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Has the Commerce Commission gutlessly caved into corporate media?
ByMartyn Bradbury 29 March 2017

Look at the NZ media elites joyfully declaring the Commerce Commission has gutlessly been bullied by mainstream corporate media threats into flipping on their decision to stop their Newspaper Monopoly…

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Human Rights Lawyer walks out on Duncan Garner’s Bullshit
ByMartyn Bradbury 29 March 2017

The AM Show have made the claims of war crimes into a joke and they went up against a person who takes it incredibly seriously.

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TV3’s The Project – A Babyboomer lowers the boom
ByThe Daily Blog 27 March 2017

If Mediaworks is attempting to cater to Babyboomers, then shite offerings such as ‘The Project’ will not cut the mustard. It is a pale, immature, sickly parody of professional journalism. What else can you call something that is fronted by people whose day-jobs are comedians?

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Public Broadcasting takes another mutilation in election year
ByMartyn Bradbury 26 March 2017

The National Party have been intent on killing off public broadcasting because the fewer media sources that are trying to hold the Government to account, the better for them.

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