I feel the only way the NZ media would bother focusing on the 21 Afghan civilians we killed and wounded would be if the SAS had instead of launching an attack on the village gone in with lots of booze, gotten everyone drunk, inappropriately harassed 15 civilians and groped 5 others.
It would be great if we could get the same energy and focus on that now, cause you know, war crimes.
Isn’t it time for the NZ Media to start doing their job now Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager have done all the hard work?
Can we move onto that now, because as much fun as cyclists who want brain damage is as a news story, I just care a little more about war crimes we commit.
…screaming ‘racist’ at the Young Nats for a meme that isn’t racist manages to eclipse the real issues and the substantive history of why we owe the Pacific.
…as a witness in this case, it was apparent to me that the Judy didn’t seem to have any comprehension whatsoever of defamation law.
Whatever you think of Hooton, as a columnist he has the right to criticise and critique politicians and as long as he doesn’t defame that politician by lying about them, then his right to be critical of a politician is supposed to be sacrosanct and backed 100% by his Publisher and Editor.
We need a panel who will re-invent the public square, not tick boxes in a pretence of looking like something is changing. We need to use TV far better than it’s currently being used in association with social media as solutions and i don’t see this panel managing that.
He may as well have conducted the entire interview with a can of warm Fosters in one hand while scratching his balls through his speedos with the other. I was half expecting him to start asking Jacinda how she got up the duff and whether he could see her ‘socially’.