Can someone please help the NZ Greens out with their coms? Please?
Chloe is a brilliant candidate and the fact the Greens got her is further proof of just how useless the bloody NZ Labour Party are.
Media Watch
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Why Story had to get axed, why Duncan Garner isn’t much of a saviour and why the new TV3 comedy news show will probably fail
How can you critique the hegemonic power structures of society when your host don’t know what the fuck hegemonic means? It will probably become fart and dick jokes, with the tall bugger from Jono and Beno hosting and some of their female comedians thrown in to try and make it seem diverse.
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Phil Twyford brings a knife to a gun fight with Paul Henry over By-election
Maybe Phil was expecting a Paul Henry who was slightly humbled by Lizzie Marvel’s principled stance to boycott the show in the wake of his gross description of women’s breasts to a journalist.
Phil was wrong.
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Paul Henry’s dickhead privilege vs Max Key’s dickhead privilege isn’t news
Paul Henry has shot his mouth off in an interview while Max Key yells out ‘Real men ride bikes’ to a bunch of cyclists.
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Q+A vs The Nation TV review
Q+A was excellent, The Nation made you wonder how they get so much money from NZ on Air.
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Will NZ Media buy Police Euthanasia Excuse?
Will the media buy this absurd claim that the Police were just acting on good faith and that this wasn’t a training exercise?
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TDB October Contributions drive – please donate if you believe we need a counter media
Comrades, it’s that time of the month when we put out our begging bowl and ask you our dear readers to contribute cash if you believe the NZ media landscape desperately needs a counter voice. This project of a blog takes up an immense amount of time and it costs us to bring it to you.
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If only the NZ media could focus on Key lying about SAS in combat the way they have over an Australian Rugby Coach spitting the dummy
We are allowing the cult of Rugby to over shadow civic issues far larger than an Ozzie Coach having a rant!
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The Herald’s weird moralistic rant about Millennials, misplaced Tinder angst and toxic individualism
Focusing on the supposed morality in all of this eclipses what I really think the Wright/Tostee story confronts us with.
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TV REVIEW: Wow – Best Q+A ever?
There are times when TVNZ and its true public broadcasting purpose shines so brightly you are reminded, ‘we should probably keep that as a public asset’.