Herald & Fairfax Watch: We are in denial over the why of suicide in New Zealand
The Herald are copying Stuff by running big current affairs campaigns. This week Stuff is looking at cannabis reform and the Herald are attempting to talk about suicide.
Media Watch
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Duncan Greive vs Gavin Strawhan – 2 bald men fighting over a comb
Ultimately the dispute is between two different production cultures from two different generations.
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Waatea News Column – Rethinking Maori Prisons
Building Maori prisons is not the solution to a racist prison system, making society and the instruments of law and order less racist is.
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Watch how badly Bill English self mutilated himself on Breakfast TVNZ – I’ve never seen any thing like this in my life
Breakfast TVNZ just became a must watch each morning, Hillary Barry did more for journalism in that 7 minutes than Seven Sharp has managed all year.
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When bastard spawn of marketing & lite news like The Project can grow a spine, you know National are in trouble
It’s nice to see the impact that Banter on Duke has created by forcing The Project to actually start talking about something of significance.
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Defend Qatar, Defend al-Jazeera
The Saudi-led blockade of Qatar should concern us all. It is virtually an act of war for one country, Saudi Arabia, to cut off all land access to another, Qatar, and then combine with two other countries, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, to restrict air and sea access.
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Q+A review: Has anyone contacted slave pen crusader Matthew Hooton yet?
…this Labour ‘slave scandal’ proves the ease with which a Right Wing blog can still manipulate the NZ mainstream media.
This ability to manipulate the mainstream media is as cancerous in 2017 as it was in 2014.
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Rights groups condemn ‘cowardly censorship’ bid over Al Jazeera
“The attack on Al Jazeera is part of an assault on free speech to subvert the impact of old and new media in the Arab world. It should be condemned and resisted.” One of many global media responses.
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At some point people are going to admit this 2month old story about a Labour intern slave scandal was just a distraction from Bill & Todd
Audrey Young is no card carrying member of the Labour Party so her vicious take down of National when comparing Labour’s supposed scandal up against National’s actual scandal this week is devastating…
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Whale Oil confounded by history
Israel’s imposition of illegal settlements outside its borders and brutal military control of the Palestinian people are war crimes. They are violations of international law that demand the urgent imposition of UN sanctions designed to bring Israel to account.