According to Herald Media Insider, Shayne Currie, a number of well-known TVNZ faces, including Miriama Kamo, Jack Tame, Indira Stewart and Anna Burns-Francis feature in an E tu union publicity campaign – all lending support to the importance of news and current affairs. This, to my mind, is a pretty pointless
What should be done with TV One? In my view, the answer is an easy one. You have to look no further than across the ditch to Sky News Australia. In a country with a population of 25.69 million, 42 per cent, 11.1 million watch the channel during
The Weekend Herald article entitled ‘Inside the ‘unsettling’ efforts to cut costs’ was a revealing read in terms of the various government departments, their headcount and consultancy spending. The information was gained under the Official Information Act and not all had responded by the time the paper went to print.
Much has been written on the subject of Newshub joining Today FM in the media graveyard. A suitable epitaph might be something along the lines of… In memory of an organisation renowned for leftist spin ultimately leading to its death. Here lie journos who decided their opinion was the story
My previous article was headlined Is Labour a Spent Force? The headline for this article asks a similar question with a different emphasis, implying it most probably is, based on its performance in opposition to date. Bryce Edwards, in a recent article on the Democracy Project, gives numerous examples of
Normally after an electoral drubbing such as the Labour Government received last year one can safely assume that in another two or three election cycles there will be a path back to power. Voters will simply tire of the current lot and therefore there will be an appetite for change.
The Te Aka Maori Dictionary defines Mana and Myth as: MANA – prestige, control, power, influence, status, spiritual power, charisma – mana is a ‘supernatural force’ in a person, place or object. MYTH – the modifier (adjective) “mythical” in this example is defined as “Some mythical tales of the Pakeha should be told
The Labour Party is desperate to light a fire under the Government’s tobacco excise increases. Unfortunately they have a very weak person on the job. It’s the former Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, who, going by her performances in the House, would be hard pushed to light a cigarette,
The Curia Poll released last week was very revealing in terms of what its content told us about where the country is headed. National went up 2.6 points to 39.6% while ACT doubled that increase going up 5.6 points to 13.7%. The interesting point to note
The world is in the throes of two major international conflicts. I do not need to name them. I am writing about a third one: it is domestic. It is between the mainstream media and the Government. The fundamental question is this: are the mainstream media going to destroy the
I know it, you know it, the polls are telling us the majority of the rest of the voters know it. Know what, I hear you ask. The left doesn’t deserve our respect. The numbers in both the Roy Morgan and the Curia polls show they have indeed lost
If it’s not about chasing money, it’s about something else. While Kiwis of all colours and ethnicities are leading normal lives, working, paying taxes and trying to put food on the table, there’s another lot: the elite Maori activists. These are the people who can afford the
It’s a fair question to ask if the entire raison d’être of the left is based on the premise of a socialist dream they had the previous night. There has to be something that possesses these people to come up with the ridiculously half-baked ideas they try to
Baby boomers, of which I am one, have a lot to be thankful for. Looking at later generations, including the one immediately after (for which we must take some responsibility), are very different from ours. The generations prior to ours – involved in two world wars – were subjected to more horrors
Some might deem this article harsh. They would be right. I am writing about the realities the free world has to deal with as a result of the war in the Middle East. They are all risking the peace and order of the world. I intend to be harsh on
If you were in a war, you wouldn’t want the Labour Party on your side: their physical abilities would probably be on a par with their mental abilities. After six years in government we know how seriously their abilities were found wanting. Their reign will be remembered for a
