Heather du Plessis-Allan and Millennial entitlement
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.
Media Watch
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TV REVIEW: Q+A – Andrew Little looks Prime Ministerial
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.
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TWITTER WATCH: Trump openly threatens former FBI Director on Twitter
Fuck me but Trump openly threatening Comey on Twitter is just such an extraordinarily frightening escalation after his last extraordinarily frightening escalation…
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MEDIA WATCH: Action Station playing into Government’s hands over People’s Mental Health Report
…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.
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Radio NZ ratings and what does it need to do to satisfy National Party philosophy of success?
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.
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Corporate Mainstream NZ Media suddenly realise NZers are being lied to but don’t see their own role in that
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.
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MEDIA WATCH: Rod Oram steps down from Fairfax after ‘editorial differences’
While blue green hipster wank blog, ‘The Spin-Off ‘, cravenly worshiped the corporate media against the ComCom decision, the best economic columnist in NZ, Rod Oram, has stepped down from Fairfax for ‘editorial differences’ after he wrote a column in support of the Commerce Commission decision to stop Fairfax’s newspaper monopoly…
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Why is Duncan Garner such a dickhead? The argument against sending 4 year olds to school
Duncan couldn’t understand why starting school at 4 was a problem for anyone, here’s why it’s a problem Duncs. The Government wants to lower the age of starting school to 4 so that they can force beneficiaries into work a year younger and they can save on the pre-school costs.
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TV REVIEW: Survivor NZ
While I won’t review a show as sexist and backwards as The Bachelor, (no matter how much I want to rip to pieces the contestants and the shallow world of narcissism they inhabit), Survivor NZ has no such protection and it’s open season.
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Mainstream Media focus on smearing Willie Jackson – ignore 4 Government lies
This week really highlights why you can’t trust mainstream corporate media.