The death of TV3 News and why Rachel Smalley is wrong
From the people who killed off Campbell Live and brought you Rachel Glucina on Scout, comes the death of TV3 News.
Media Watch
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Mike Hosking’s racist rant against Waitangi Day
Here we go. The usual annual ritual of rich white privileged volk tapping into the widespread garden variety bigotry that Maori complain too much about Waitangi Day.
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This weeks Waatea news column – Largest Union in world supports Maori workers & attacks Talleys/AFFCO
Largest Union in world supports Maori workers & attacks Talleys/AFFCO
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Dick pic artist’s fame a sad commentary on the state of modern media
If you think that cringe-worthy news don’t appear in New Zealand’s media, then consider the endless stories about Max Key or the news of a broken penis which was promoted via twitter by @NZStuff on the same day that the death of 2-year-old Emma-Lita Bourne was reported
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TPPA Town Hall, climate change conference, Table Talk 2016 live streams & a new current affairs show – Summer TDB Contribution Drive
Comrades, in 2016, TDB will continue to bring you unique content that no other blog in NZ can provide. On top of the best progressive bloggers and widest diversity of any other blog we are…
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Lizzie Marvelly highlights why we need a Ministry of Youth Affairs and why we need to lower the voting age
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.
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Vulture funds – Will Dick Smith meltdown be replicated at MediaWorks?
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.
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Most treasonous Vichy Herald editorial ever?
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.
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Herald front page highlights why we need a 5th estate
The fourth estate has obligations to hold the powerful to account, lazy journalism that jumps on social media for news doesn’t do that.
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An open letter to Alan Duff re ‘Muslims’
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.