Comments on: UPDATE: GUEST BLOG:Catherine Delahunty – “Doesn’t It Just Make You Want to Vomit?”: Breakfast TV, the C word and the stolen Alpaca

By: David Stone

David Stone — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:09:32 +0000

In reply to John W.

your first steps are good but they are a necessary fix of the capitalist system rather than a transfer to socialism to my way of thinking.
But a good start.
D J S

By: John W

John W — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:16:06 +0000

In reply to David Stone.

David clear thinking and honest are needed to examine the best way forward.

The first step would be to get media ownership out of capitalist hands and remove the gravy train from banks.

While the media, politicians and public opinion are all controlled by private wealth stolen form society using the capitalist monster, then we will not develop a way out of this mess.

Capitalism and corruption are genetically entwined.

By: savenz

savenz — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:20:03 +0000

I don’t watch MSM but I would more if there was something serious to watch. I’m not really turned on by communism but I think modern Capitalism has gone seriously wrong somewhere – there is defiantly room for debate on bigger pictures like ideology and new ideas.

We are in the 21c and I think what we need is a different approach from both modern capitalism such as the US and UK and modern communism like China.

I always enjoyed Waatea Fifth Estate and hope it returns! At least we got real news and run by a real commentator who had panels with different views not faux different views like MSM and Fairfax Lite like Spinoff.

As for focus on trivial, it is defiantly being promoted out there. I vomit when I get FB pics of people’s dinners, coffees or what have you. There is an alternate reality out there all right but it’s fake!

By: Victorina

Victorina — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:37:05 +0000

Did you know there’s a big peace march tomorrow in Samoa about the government selling customary land to pay off debt to China.

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By: Heather Tanguay

Heather Tanguay — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:30:25 +0000

Makes me want to vomit about what has been discovered at Middlemore Hospital. Not really discovered, Lester Levy and Coleman would have known about the shameful condition of this hospital, where children were in hospital because of damp and mould and the hospital just gave them some more of the same – now that really makes me vomit.

By: David Stone

David Stone — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 06:52:00 +0000

The start of a debate could be to present a structure of a socialist society identifying the necessary decision making processes, and the power hierarchy ; who decides what everyone does, how are these people chosen, how are peoples needs assessed and distributed etc. “Socialism” without any such detailed description / explanation can only conjure up in peoples minds the historical attempts under the name of socialism, namely the Soviet Union and Communist China. Neither worked except by way of vicious dictatorship and a complete lack of personal freedom, and both failed. With their failure improving the outlook for the population in general.
Rampant lassez faire capitalism isn’t the answer either, but a balance between the two is probably the best compromise with money interests having much less power, and government being much more truly representative of the welfare of the majority. Our democratic system is failing to serve the interests of the majority.
I would genuinely like to see what the ideal structure of a “socialist” society would be. How it would work. From someone as conversant with the philosophy as you are Catherine. Could you do an article on that?
I guess you don’t get up to Coro that much now that Esther is in AK.
Cheers D J S

By: Francesca

Francesca — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:01:44 +0000

In reply to Aaron. and you also employ the most shallow and vacuous so they wont inadvertently get serious about something

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 01:05:54 +0000

It’s not a conspiracy theory to say the rich and powerful use their unfluence to stifle debate that’s inconvenient to them – it’s just common sense.
I’m mean, why wouldn’t they use their power that way?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 01:01:14 +0000

Privately owned and rubbish I don’t watch this anymore it is not news it is garbage.