…Brothers and siser, ISIS isn’t fucking threat to us, the biggest threat to us is the very GCSB and SIS who have mass surveillance powers, multi-million dollar budgets and hand everything over to the NSA who are a threat to us.
Look, far be it for me, the only broadcaster in New Zealand to be banned for life from Radio NZ and who has been blacklisted from every political panel show in the country to lecture you all on your craft, but honestly, your coverage of Obama is possibly the most pathetic sycophancy I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing.
NZ owns 51% of Air NZ – like it or not they have a social obligation to provide services to provincial NZ and for Air NZ to attack the new Governments criticism is extraordinary.
The Greens now remain the only party opposed to the CPTPP. That opposition has been predominantly comprised of a series of rousing speeches in the House from MP Golriz Ghahraman. With only 8 seats in the House, the Greens have been left explaining to their voters that there’s not much else they can do to change course.
FEW WOULD ARGUE that journalism is not in crisis. Beset by the manifold challenges of a global on-line culture, journalists struggle to keep pace with the demands of readers, listeners and viewers whose tastes they once led but now must follow. The mainstream news media’s dwindling share of the advertising dollar drives it inexorably towards the sensational, scandalous, salacious and bizarre “clickbait” upon which its profitability increasingly depends.
The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.
Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…
In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.
Our media have a sorry history of being played like propaganda sock puppets by the NZDF. Here they are with full and undisputed evidence that the NZDF lied again and where is the wall to wall media focus demanding accountability?
…we need a rational debate about Police pursuit policy that can’t be derailed by ‘respect my authority’ as a response.