The Spinoff calls for more white people coverage of Auckland Mayoralty – really?
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.
Media Watch
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First ever South Auckland Mayoral Debate
“Vic Crone should come to South Auckland experience cultural diversity properly and not just out her car window on the way to the airport.”
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Breakfast on TV3 vs Breakfast on TV One is a clash between two bald old media monoliths fighting over a comb
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…
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New Bloggers joining TDB
Paralympian Aine Kelly Costello
Artist and social commentator LaQuisha St Redfern
New Green MP and anti-TPPA campaigner – Barry Coates
Arts reviewer – Genevieve McClean -
NZ Herald/Fairfax merger and the burning of the public square
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.
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We need a Housewives of Real Auckland
What’s uglier? The Spinoff fawning over their exclusive relationship with the Real Housewives of Auckland or the NZ Herald’s?
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Dear NZ Herald – The Syrian Golan Heights are NOT in Israel
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.”
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Cash for Copy site The Spinoff has another pointless Poll
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.
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New Zealand First Is NOT Neoliberal – A Response To Frank Macskasy
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.
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BREAKING: In the Interests of Democracy – AUSA + The Daily Blog presents the ‘Anti-Debate’ live streamed 7pm Monday 26th
The Live Stream will commence 7pm here on www.thedailyblog.nz – bringing you exclusive live streamed current events in NZ. We can bitch about the media or we can be the media.