The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 22nd October 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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Why mass market TV must be kept and why all the talk of technology utterly misses the point
The public broadcasting square of NZ is critical for our democracy especially as online simply leads us to echo cambers and people who think vaccinations lead to autism.
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12 months till the NZ election – what does the political landscape look like?
Okay, we are 12 months out from the next election, how are the Parties faring, what are their internal dynamics and what possible strategies will they adopt?
What issues will shape the debate and what curveballs might trip them up?
Here is the political landscape going into Election 2020.
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How Faafoi buys MediaWorks TV and saves public broadcasting
If Faafoi was bold, he would buy TV3, gut it and relaunch it as a 24 hour news channel run by TVNZ under the editorial auspices of RNZ.
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Dave Macpherson: Government’s $100M rebuild of acute mental health facility the last part of the answer, not the first
Last week the Government announced, with much fanfare, the rebuild of Waikato DHB’s notorious Henry Bennett Centre, a place that was quite literally the death of our son Nicky, and of several other acutely ill patients.
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Dr Liz Gordon: De-prison now!
It is over a year since the August 2018 hui told the government that imprisonment was not working to solve the problem of crime in Aotearoa. The model of high security prisons, guards running around in stab-proof vests, top-down security, very limited access to programmes to solve the mental health and addictions that are rife in our prisons and so on, known as the American model, just makes things worse, is extremely expensive and a blight on our society.
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Political Caption Competition
The Suicide Squad sequel is very underwhelming.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 21st October 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Two Results And A Foreboding
If you’re not interested in politics or rugby then you probably got more sleep than I did last night.
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The NZDF, the Key administration & the corruption of our intelligence system
…let’s not forget that also in 2011, Key’s Office colluded with the SIS to falsely smear Phil Goff months before the election. Key went on to reward the SIS and GCSB with unlimited power through mass surveillance and a huge increase in budgets.