Cash for copy site – the supposed saviour of journalism – The blue/green millennial Spinoff has felt a certain amount of pressure recently over the blurry line between their cash for copy products and their copy…
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
“Vic Crone should come to South Auckland experience cultural diversity properly and not just out her car window on the way to the airport.”
The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…
Paralympian Aine Kelly Costello
Artist and social commentator LaQuisha St Redfern
New Green MP and anti-TPPA campaigner – Barry Coates
Arts reviewer – Genevieve McClean
From Paul Henry in the morning to Mike Hosking at night with a merged right wing newspaper monopoly in the middle. An unbroken chorus of neoliberal mythology masquerading as successful fact.
We have become a one media state.
What’s uglier? The Spinoff fawning over their exclusive relationship with the Real Housewives of Auckland or the NZ Herald’s?
A news item in the NZ Herald published yesterday (14 September 2016), reporting on a missile that landed in the Golan Heights, commented: “The incident was the fifth case since last week in which fighting in Syria has spilled over into Israel.”
The Daily Blog in conjunction with AUSA will be hosting and live streaming an ‘Anti-Debate’ where the candidates who have had no coverage by the mainstream can debate what Auckland needs.
I ordinarily have a lot of time for Frank Macskasy. His pieces are usually trenchantly researched and thorough. On top of that, he was the first journalist to ever give me a proper interview.