In Lizzie Marvelly’s excellent column last week, she pointed out our terrible failings as a society when it comes to sex education. Her follow up column this weekend focuses on the intergenerational theft children in poverty face against an older electorate who simply vote for their interests.
To date most of the mainstream media focus on the collapse of Dick Smith has been the impact on customers not being able to cash in their vouchers. This small minded approach manages to miss most of the real issues going on.
To be honest, I thought this spineless NZ Herald editorial was originally a Toby Manhire spoof. Only Manhire could manage to mimic the subservient tepid fecklessness of the Herald editorial so masterfully.
The fourth estate has obligations to hold the powerful to account, lazy journalism that jumps on social media for news doesn’t do that.
Would we seriously judge a ‘Christian’ nation like NZ on the Klu Klux Klan in America or the Protestant/Catholic blood feud in Ireland? Of course not, and attempting to do it to all Muslims is equally ridiculous.
If TVNZ is ‘glam’ at the moment, I’d hate to see laundry day
It is a hate site and should be pulled down immediately. Complain to the Human Rights Commission here.
Pointing our Whyte rehashed previous arguments is as petty as his own arguement – the issue is the poverty denial not his repetition of it
Is it just me or is the news these holidays far more crap than usual?
As far as the NZ Herald is concerned, it’s never been a better time to live in NZ…