David Fisher’s Green Party PR Masquerading as News: A Case Study in Blame Shifting
David Fisher’s article is a masterclass in narrative spin, using unverified claims, a discredited ‘expert’ and selective outrage to protect Doyle while dismissing serious allegations.
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Wellington Citizens Are in It
Sewage, after all, is brutally egalitarian: it does not care about your values, your slogans, or your intentions. It simply goes where neglect sends it – and Wellington is swimming in it, some say, deservedly.
Have the Greens Lost Their Mojo?
They enter election year with their poll numbers trending down, their internal organisation in flux, and their strategic positioning unclear. Friendly observers could be forgiven for asking: have the Greens lost their way?
Can We Look Back in Anger Yet?
Tolerance must not be a suicide pact. Every time a politician chooses comfort over clarity and a journalist downplays jihadist violence they are laundering ideology. This is how a society talks itself into paralysis.
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Face of the Day
‘I think it’s my time, I’ve given a lot here, and when you give a lot here it takes away from other spaces’ – Henare
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… prototype (noun) - 1: an original model on which something is patterned : archetype 2: an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type 3: a standard or typical example 4: a first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type or design
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
