MEDIA WATCH: Homophobic attack against Aziz Al-Sa’afin
This terrible act of homophobic violence against Aziz Al-Sa’afin was deeply moving this morning.
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Commentary Is Free – But Facts Are Sacred
POLITICAL COMMENTATORS tell us a great deal about themselves when they turn their gaze away from home, and towards events unfolding overseas. Domestic politics inevitably presents a rather muddied picture. There is so much happening: so many players – all with competing agendas – that achieving clarity is extremely difficult. With events overseas, however, there is much less in the way of clutter. The issues seem so clear, and the players so compelling, that the temptation to apply only the brightest primary colours to one’s analytical canvas is very hard to resist. Muted palettes are best reserved for the politics of one’s own homeland.
The commentary currently being offered up to New Zealand readers on the crisis playing-out in Venezuela strongly confirms these observations. And nowhere is the tendency to apply the brightest colours with the broadest brushstrokes more in evidence than in the commentaries of Liam Hehir.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Heather lectures PM about knowing the Treaty verbatim
Fresh from doubling down on her view that Pacific Islanders are leeches – it was only fitting that Heather du Plessis-Allan recycle the “gotcha” story of the week that Barry Soper had rushed to publish on Waitangi Day.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – The Dangers of main stream media
At least, on the DAILY BLOG, one has the opportunity to challenge wishful thinking promulgated by contributors to media, who in my view are little more than political agents.
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MEDIA WATCH: Lizzie Marvelly wants to blame everyone else for Pride debacle
When you empower extremists to decide who to cast out and who to include, there are consequences. Understanding how you helped create those consequences is the first step to ensuring todays mistakes aren’t caused tomorrow.
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The Sean Plunket ‘Working Group’: Waitangi Day, Shane Jones, and KiwiBuild
The Sean Plunket ‘Working Group’: Waitangi Day, Shane Jones, and KiwiBuild
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Prepare for the deafening scream from middle class Millennials, Xers & Boomers at Capital Gains Tax
The only way you can win a war like this is by making the homeless, the poor, the beneficiaries, the first home buyers and the renting class as self interested as the property speculators because kindness is only going to get you so far when you tell the Millennial, Xer and Boomer middle class property speculator that you are taking 20% of their imaginary wealth.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Democratically Offensive? I don’t think so
Business is democratically offensive by nature and it’s a pathetic argument that workers must conform to an industry wide democracy before the aligned oppressive decision making minority can be brought to the negotiating table.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The media can do so much better
It is good to see Andrea speaking out like a lone voice and to see the media attempting to hold the media to account.
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Is this Kate Hawkseby’s worst column ever?
…I thought Kate’s hateful attack on a garden in a prison and her weird attack on Meghan Markle were pretty awful columns, but basing an entire one on what MPs wore at a retreat seems so shallow it’s difficult to do anything other than mock it.