GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Beyond our latest domestic media feeding frenzy
If you only rely on mainstream television broadcasters for your news then your understanding of world events and their possible…
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Waatea News Column: If your baby is being stolen by Oranga Tamariki, you must immediately start live streaming it
New shameful footage of Oranga Tamariki using Police to take a new born Maori infant from a mothers arms has emerged from Auckland Hospital and the outrage should be deafening.
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Waatea News Column: The latest Oranga Tamariki outrage
Last week, Amnesty International harshly criticised Oranga Tamariki for allowing 14 year old children who have been uplifted from whanau or taken into custody by Police to stay for up to 48 hours in Police cells until they are found appropriate accommodation.
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MEDIAWATCH: The Spinoff Labour Party Sex Scandal
The extraordinary journalism on display today at The Spinoff by Alex Casey demolishes any facade that the allegations were a mistaken interaction that has been over hyped.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – KiwiBuild reset, Governments water plan, free speech case + Boris & Brexit
This week – KiwiBuild reset, Governments water plan, free speech case + Boris & Brexit
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Save The Ship!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you discovered a deranged crew-member deliberately endangering the onboard atmosphere of your spacecraft? Obviously, the delicate mechanism responsible for scrubbing the air and keeping it breathable is absolutely crucial to the survival of the ship’s entire crew. If you allow the saboteur to continue his destruction, everyone on board will die. What is your optimal course of action?
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On John Roughan’s Curious Distaste For Journalistic Privilege
Now, I hesitate in the extreme to term The Herald’s John Roughan a “genius”. Yet every time I read one of his more “ideological” columns, that sort of sentiment seems to spring to mind. A sort of more-cynical/paranoid version of the famed ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ – “never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
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National and petrol taxes – when journalists get it right
It’s not often that it happens, but every so often one will stumble across examples of journalism that probes deeper than the immediacy of the here-and-now, and actually takes a step back in very recent history to put political events and utterances into context.
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TV Review: Te Ao with Moana – 5 stars
Why the living Christ do Māori continue to make the best current affairs in this country?
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Waatea News Column: Tracey Martin finally talks the talk & why Kelvin Davis must not resign from Corrections
Two major events occurred last week that require comment. Minister for Children, Tracey Martin, finally criticised Oranga Tamariki staff last…