People who are economically hurting and feeling excluded didn’t care about the facts and the legitimate news sources, they were overloaded on information and selected the candidate who didn’t make them feel belittled.
Prime TV and Sky TV deserve to take a bow. Their courageous Pike River Mine doco on Monday night was riveting, full of drama and finally gave NZers a chance to understand the abomination that our insanely under regulated safety standards allowed to occur.
That the news media can be so easily manipulated by forces it only vaguely perceives and understands is a bitter pill to swallow. But it is far from being the most unpalatable of the home truths which Trump’s election served up.
Long live the Queen!
The funding freeze on Radio NZ because the National Government hate them for asking hard questions is looking more and more dangerous with every passing natural disaster.
The new format will be a mix of the Tonight show with the Daily Show – which is going to be an incredible challenge because our standard for political satire is bloody 7 Days. Fart and dick jokes aren’t going to make this show work. The Project in Australia is pretty sophisticated and bloody smart, unfortunately we have a pretty shallow pool to work with in NZ.
Past the earthquake and shock at Trump’s win, last week another disturbing lapse into dirty politics was undertaken again by NZs largest newspaper, the NZ Herald.
TDB is proud to present the Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report live streamed exclusively on The Daily Blog, December 1st.
Did the NZ Herald just slur Labour’s Mt Roskill by-election candidate based on National Party lies?
As the Republic of America begins to unravel in the wake of the shock election by Trump, the Fourth estate, our democratic watchdog of the powerful, are attempting to decipher the meaning and the anger of the decision.
