Waatea News Column: Maori Party, Labour & Greens ran the most positive & honest social media election campaigns
Interesting academic data from Victoria University on how the different political parties used social media this election.
Most Recent Blogs
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Can Labour Serve Two Masters?
THE QUESTION to be answered, one way or the other, before 2023 is pretty simple: Can Labour serve two masters?
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 8th December 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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We will need a revolution at the ballot boxes in 2023
Every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.
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A Pivotal Moment
JMAD’s 2020 NZ Media Ownership report is doubly significant. First, it completes a decade of research into a changing mediascape….
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA OWNERSHIP BOOMS POST COVID-19 – JMAD
2020 was a challenging year for every sector, but dramatic change played out in New Zealand’s media. The 10th anniversary New…
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – A Stuffed History means a Stuffed Future
The recent apology by the Stuff media group for its history of reportage that had a strong racist bias towards Maori, has won the praise of many as a major step towards a non-racist media in Aotearoa. Marxists however, see this mea culpa as part of an international move by liberal media to identify racism as a cultural problem to cover-up the deeper causes of racism inherent in global capitalism
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Political Caption Competition
Father Marxist is dragged from the streets after stealing from the rich kids to give to the poor kids
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 7th December 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The infamous TDB Politics Awards 2020
And you thought Tiger King was a voyage into the pettiest idiosyncratic self delusion you’d ever seen!
It was nothing compared to the pandemic election of 2020!