WaateaNews: Metiria Turei vs Jian Yang – Compare the media values at work
How come a Maori solo mum who stole to feed her child a quarter of a century ago is a bigger story than a possible Chinese spy deeply embedded inside our own Government?
Media Watch
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Can we all acknowledge the speed of how National Party relationship with China has been ignored by the NZ media?
There has been more media coverage of Duncan Garner leaving bloody Twitter than the power Chinese Business interests now hold over the National Party.
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Why Duncan Garner’s Kmart checkout metaphor is actually delightfully perfect
Here is our great anthropologist at work as he wanders into the great snake of the Kmart checkout line…
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Why Lizzie Marvelly’s compulsory voting idea isn’t a solution
If you chose to not engage with the political process, it’s your right to have the agency to do that. I don’t think forcing people to have their say is a positive response to voter apathy.
‘Vote or else’ isn’t particularly inspirational is it?
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WaateaNews: How do Māori respond to the next wave of colonisation?
The impact of the Asian-NZ population tripling in the space of 20 years and overtaking Māori has political, economic and cultural ramifications that haven’t been discussed yet it’s a debate that is already running.
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Let’s seriously consider David Farrar’s offer to the Greens and laugh and laugh and laugh
…the only scenario where the Greens join the National Party is if Hitler resurrects from the grave with a legion of Nazi zombies and declares an ecological war against the Amazon rain forest.
Sorry David Farrar, That’s the only scenario.
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The ridiculous pro National propaganda of Garner, Du Plessis-Allan, Roughan & Kirk
The right wing and their corporate media enablers need to delegitimise MMP and any Labour led Government by decrying Winston, undermining Jacinda and demonising the Greens.
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WaateaNews Column: Election 2017 – Maori Party punished & Labour rewarded
We’ve lost Metiria, Marama, Te Ururoa and Hone as voices for the most vulnerable, Labour’s Maori Caucus must now become that.
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The ‘National won’ propaganda circus and when will the Left stop sulking & fight back?
If enough leading lights of the left could find their way to getting off their arses and adding their voice maybe the faux shockwaves of manufactured outrage about to erupt when Labour-NZ First-Green gov gets announced won’t spook the country so much.
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Blame Labour’s low polling where it deserves to be blamed – on the mainstream media
If there is a disappointment with the Labour and Green vote on election night, let’s put that blame where it deserves to go, the right wing corporate mainstream media.