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.
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Donald Trump doesn’t understand climate change or global warming
This would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous because I’ve seen clowns across social media claiming that because America is gripped in a frozen storm that global warming isn’t happening.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Duncan Garner is a dork
After record spending on Health in Budget 2018 – Duncan Garner savagely blamed the coalition for the recent Junior Doctors strike saying the government only has itself to blame for strikes after hyping up pay expectations during the 2017 election.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Has Angry Andrew Dickens found Jacinda yet?
Yesterday Andrew Dickens ( Newstalk ZB ) was worried sick because Jacinda had missed her ten minute chat with Mike Hosking – a mortal sin that deserved a load of fake bullshit and fist shaking revenge.
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MEDIA WATCH: Big Dairy Water Propaganda is world class
…that’s right folks, Dairy doesn’t shit into our rivers or steal our water! They didn’t get National to privatise 49% of our state owned energy assets to create an irrigation slush fund worth $400million to convert as many square inches of NZ into intensified dairy farms! No, they create a miracle juice that helps the sick and needy while keeping our rivers clean.
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MEDIA WATCH: After the ‘unruly tourists’ story, the media have moved swiftly to the next big issue – tooting in a Wellington tunnel
If this is the fourth estate holding power to account, power is having a field day.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Stacey Kirk and the disinterested pursuit of the truth
Journalists should be interested in their pursuit of the truth here – not sweep this stuff aside.
National had successfully told the press to bugger off and talk about something else – like Karel Sroubek for five weeks.
Now Ross was guilty of bringing up the matters they thought they had artfully dodged.
None of this context was covered in Stacey’s article today.
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Andrea Vance lances the New Conservative pus of David Moffett
I am hoping that New Zealanders are smarter than this, but I also fear that a cultural backlash to the woke may propel the New Conservatives into a position of power.
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MEDIA WATCH: Gillette – the best a progressive can get?
I was personally pretty cynical towards the Gillette advert and wrote it off as corporate woke wash, but watching in disbelief at Roastbusters wanting to launch a music career this week forces me to put that cynicism aside and acknowledge the deep need for the message Gillette is pushing.