Whaleoil throws wobbly on Social Media over Police decision to back down over illegal Hager raids
The great man is down – but could he be out…of NZ?
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The death of TV3 News and why Rachel Smalley is wrong
From the people who killed off Campbell Live and brought you Rachel Glucina on Scout, comes the death of TV3 News.
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Mike Hosking’s racist rant against Waitangi Day
Here we go. The usual annual ritual of rich white privileged volk tapping into the widespread garden variety bigotry that Maori complain too much about Waitangi Day.
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What do global markets have to do before the NZ mainstream media focus?
What would it take for the holiday grad students staffing the news rooms to pay attention to the meltdown of global stock markets?
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Dick pic artist’s fame a sad commentary on the state of modern media
If you think that cringe-worthy news don’t appear in New Zealand’s media, then consider the endless stories about Max Key or the news of a broken penis which was promoted via twitter by @NZStuff on the same day that the death of 2-year-old Emma-Lita Bourne was reported
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Duncan Garner, Josie Pagani and the NZ Herald walk into a bar…
We can not. Must not allow our own democratic sovereignty to be ripped from us for 30 pieces of silver and 3 magic beans Key and Groser have managed to get after trading all our cows at market.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Mediating Marx
There is a big debate, including on TDB, on the bias of the corporate media, and the need for an independent media to correct this bias. Marxists have long debated the role of media in capitalist society, so what do they have to add on top of the usual corporate blah blah and radical alternative arguments?
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BREAKING: Dow Jones meltdown by 392 points after China loses 3.6%
The continuing meltdown on stock markets around the world didn’t slow down. China lost 3.6%, European markets slid hard and the Dow Jones just closed down 392 points.
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Vulture funds – Will Dick Smith meltdown be replicated at MediaWorks?
To date most of the mainstream media focus on the collapse of Dick Smith has been the impact on customers not being able to cash in their vouchers. This small minded approach manages to miss most of the real issues going on.
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Most treasonous Vichy Herald editorial ever?
To be honest, I thought this spineless NZ Herald editorial was originally a Toby Manhire spoof. Only Manhire could manage to mimic the subservient tepid fecklessness of the Herald editorial so masterfully.