The Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report
The live stream of the Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report yielded an incredible insight to how precarious the current state of journalism really is.
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Boy in Police cell for 6 nights but we have money for tax cuts?
Key’s ability to promote empty aspiration and vacant optimism while the social statistics groan under his draconian neoliberal welfare state reforms is truly one of the great political swindles of the 21st century.
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Australia’s shame
We think of human rights abuses occurring in far off places. But 4000 km to the North is a country that has been taken over as a prison. There are 1200 people held against their will. They were sent there for six months to processing their applications for refugee status. Three years later, they are trapped on Nauru in despair.
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4.30pm Live Stream today – Journalism, Media & Democracy 2016 Media Ownership Report
This annual New Zealand Media Ownership Report is the only one of its kind. To celebrate the release of this year’s report you are cordially invited to watch it live today here on The Daily Blog. To understand why our media behave the way they do, you need to know who owns them.
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Kim Hill destroys Anne Tolley and are National protecting paedophile rings?
What is the National Government hiding and who are they protecting by refusing to hold an independent inquest into historic and current child abuse by State services?
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GUEST BLOG Comrade Dave Brownz – Climate Crash: The case for Survival Socialism
The recent news about the lack of ice in the Arctic has “shocked” mainstream climate scientists even if a few have been predicting such abrupt changes for years.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Fidel Castro- A Revolution is not a Man
This blog is not the place to give an exhaustive examination of the Cuban revolution, its achievements, its mistakes, and its attempts to overcome them. However, with Fidel’s death it is worth taking a moment to reflect on the lessons of the Cuban revolutionary experience.
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The biggest threat to NZ is not terrorism, it’s poverty
The government recently announced an extra $20 billion in military spending over the next 15 years. When the greatest threat to our sovereignty comes not from war and terrorism, but from unaffordable housing, health and education, how can we justify this?
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Fairfax & APN threaten Commerce Commission if they don’t get their monopoly
In other countries with a sophisticated enough media, such threats by Media Corporates would dominate headlines alongside a critical analysis providing insight into how these media monoliths undermine the quality of our democracy. Unfortunately we live in NZ and have a media with the maturity of your average can of coke.
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Banana Split: David Seymour’s Latest Declaration of Intergenerational War
THAT DAVID SEYMOUR’S latest effusion of political bile is being hosted by The Spinoff is entirely fitting. The ACT leader and his hipster enablers cannot wait to get into the political engine-room, and their chosen path to the centre of power is via fomenting an intergenerational war.