2017: Parting shots from the Right: tantrums, bloated entitlements, and low, low expectations for our Youth – tahi
Taking personal responsibility Mike Hosking-style
Fake News
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Once Upon a Time in Mainstream Media Fairytale Land…
You can feel mainstream media’s frustration with the news-vacuum created by the two week period necessary to count the approximately 384,072 (15% of total votes) Special Votes that were cast this election.
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Trumpwatch: Fake News, Soft News, and Non-News
Trump’s mis-use of the term “fake news” – to attack and dismiss as untrue, actual news stories – is a corruption of the term for his own purposes. Trump’s actions, statements, tweets, and behaviour has all received media attention – and quite rightly so. Trump is no longer a private individual and his actions and words are no longer unimportant. As the elected leader of the United States, much of what he says and does will be reported.
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More fake news from the corporate mainstream media Summer news teams
If we leave the 2017 election to be reported on by the corporate mainstream media, we will get the same result we did in 2014.
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MUST READ: Charter Schools in a Post-Truth Era
For many on the neo-liberal Right, education is a business not a public good and therefore should be no different to electricity supply (semi-privatised); Air New Zealand (semi-privatised – again); or a whole host of other services and assets that were once owned by the tax-payer but have been sold off over the last thirty years.