By sacking not only RNZ Concert’s presenters, but also its producers and librarians, and reducing the station to an automated purveyor of classical music in-between parliamentary broadcasts, RNZ’s CEO, Paul Thompson, wasn’t simply announcing an operational shake-up, he was declaring war on one of the most important guardians of New Zealand’s cultural traditions.
That’s it, warp factor 9.9 Mr Worf…
As TDB has been pointing out for some time, the Greens are in trouble.
You can censor ideas that trigger you and strangle off free speech AFTER the election you morons, don’t do it before the election!
It has already been widely reported that NZ ignored advice to stop the measles epidemic erupting, but the official report is now out and it is so far more damning than anyone imagined…
Tamaki’s speech at Waitangi this year where he described immigrants as “parasites” and “termites” betrays yet more of his self-serving version of Christianity. It unashamedly flies in the face of the message of love and tolerance that, as I understand it, most people who call themselves Christians proclaim as the guiding principle of their lives.
The clamour got so loud and so persistent, and the idiot stuck his head in the sand for so long, that even the mainstream media acknowledged the impact concerns about the state of mental health were having on public perceptions of the various parties, and elevated it to a ‘key election issue’.
Thank you Simon Bridges for finally coming up with a good reason to vote Labour in 2020.
If anything, we are underpaying the significance of this event, not overplaying it.
Listening to Boomers tell me replacing their precious Concert FM for a commercial free youth station is a ‘neoliberal agenda’ is like being lectured by Trump on feminism.