MEDIAWATCH: John Campbell on the horror of a new hard right racist Government and why TVNZ must protect him
John Campbell’s powerful and moving review of the spite masquerading as social policy is another reminder of how important John is to Fourth Estate Public Broadcasting…
John Campbell: I hoped to be surprised – actually I’m amazed
OPINION: Climate change dodged, child poverty ignored, landlords and gun-owners dignified. I badly wanted to be surprised by our first formal three-party coalition, writes John Campbell, and in a way I really am.
…no one else has the mana, gravitas and intelligence to critique quite like John.
With the retirement of Kim Hill, he is now the most important journalist in NZ and you can already see the right spitting venom at John for his criticism on the State Broadcaster by arguing TVNZ should be ‘balanced’.
Firstly, that argument is bullshit – John has earned the right to call it the way he sees it and the role of the State Broadcaster is to challenge the powerful, not acquiesce to it!
We have already seen repeated threats by Winston to have Jack Tame sacked for asking hard questions, it is only a matter of time before the ZB Troll Farm starts a petition to have John sacked at TVNZ.
John represents New Zealand and Old Zealand hates him.
Watch for their attempt to take him out because Old Zealand know the threat to their agenda he represents.
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Identity politics and wokedom has single handedly ruined journalism and the media in this country.
100% Jack
Dead right Martyn .
His opinion piece is a beauty.
Hi Martyn,
I’m afraid that John Campbell and Jack Tame will now be targeted by Winston et al while fellow travelers such as Ryan Bridges and Mike Hosking will be lauded. So sad that we have come to this especially now that Kim Hill has has retired.
Reading Campbell s article is fascinating, a description of a past and impending car crash. The past being nearly 40 years of neolib managerialism, the impending being more of the same with venom.
So the cure…to quote Big Norm. Basically there are four things that matter to people: they have to have somewhere to live, they have to have food to eat, they have to have clothing to wear, and they have to have something to hope for.”
So let’s convert that into policy deliverables:
* housing for the people, not the banks and landlords.
* affordable food.
* surplus income.
* an inclusive society that invests in a shared future in enterprise and education.
In other words traditional Labour policy.
If labour had concentrated in those they would likely be into their 3rd term
Please tell Labour
Louise Upston is listed as the new Minister of Child Poverty.
The smoker’ s are going to pay for everything, which is a novel idea.
At Least the Vape shops will close.
Tha dairies spokesman was saying how good it was that they could sell cigarettes again while also saying they were shifting people to vaping so they could quit smoking, I cannot believe that vaping is still considered as stopping smoking but I guess when their income depends on selling to nicotine addicts profit is the main motive.
90% of the stuff at dairies add no value to the economy. Smokes, vapes and sugary food.
Expecting National to do anything about child poverty is like expecting the kid next door to pay to fix your window after they broke it playing backyard cricket.
Ironic that we expected and believed Labour would fix child poverty then.
They have, largely. Benefit and wages are still up, Its just that landlords and power companies keep putting their rents and prices up.
You really are a silly man
Bollocks they have. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/new-zealand-child-poverty-rate-remains-static-despite-ardern-era-push
Isn’t it also racism that minorities can’t get anywhere in modern society without benefits/subsidies/scholarships without whitey? Worse still, if you somehow achieve greatness from these racist programs, you’ll always feel you owe it all your success to whitey. Is that the whole point of this?
I wonder if Hoskings will now ask the hard questions and the insulting pathetic questions now his beloved National party are in…I guess…no, not likely!
Hosking is devoid of the ability to think critically about anything except how much money he can make…shallow as a puddle and a DNA shill for the National and ACT Party.
Expect nothing but a bunch of patsy soft cock questions…he’ll probably write the answers on a bit for paper for Luxo and co. and hand them out at the start of the interviews.
Judging by the interviews of Willis and Seymour on ‘The Nation’ and ‘Q&A’ this weekend they will all need that help that they can get.
It’s pretty clear that they are both clueless, and are going to be hopeless .
Neither were pushed hard by the interviewers on either channel, but both still managed to come across as completely lost around any detail relating to their policies.
One question not asked, when questioning the financing revenues for tax cuts, now the Foreign buyers idea has been canned, was…
If NACTN.Z. are going to rely on increased taxes from more cigarette sales, (to fund their tax cuts for ‘the squeezed middle), and there is a continuous decline in cigarette smoking, as N.Z heads towards becoming smoke free, how can that be in any way, shape or form, sustainable???
Not to mention the quid- pro – quo cost of paying for lung, throat, tongue cancer and heart disease treatment, and, the inevitable lack of productivity from those people, not to mention no productivity any more from those who die.
I can tell that none of this has been factored in to their loopy scheme!
This is going to be a ‘make it up as you go along’ coalition in the hope that Hosking and Bridges can run interference for them on a daily basis and befuddle the easily befuddled sheep out there.
If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny….but it is serious, so it isn’t funny !!
The narrative has definitely changed. The headline on Duplus Allen’s column on the threesome coalition includes the word HAPPY.
She came across as someone who needs to tell herself that the next three years will be an improvement on the previous three years, but has just realised that she is defending a clown show.
Yeah but Millsy the Greens said we would be able to buy solar panels from the Warehouse on the cheap by now to make power cheaper
I agree regarding landlords. Have a proper warranty of fitness or don’t be a landlord.
How about John Campbell to return to RNZ to replace our Kim?
Is anyone going to ask the New Govt why the previous Nat Govt signed NZ up to these So called “Woke” policies, The Paris agreement, the UN declaration of Indigenous people and SmokeFree 2025, John Key obviously signed all these things to look good but had no intention of trying to fulfill the obligations and goals of these agreements. Luxon has scrapped all the things Key signed us up to and then blamed the LAB govt for trying to implement the changes made to meet the goals and obligations set out in these agreements.
Im right is living in cars the new governments policy back to cars be careful what you wish for.
BTF(big thick fuck)is there anything you know something about?
Did you go to school?