From Stuff on Wednesday the 1st of April in an article on the cost of power increasing. When media search for an image for an article from an image database they search using keywords. To ensure that suitable images are easy to find they are loaded with lots of keywords
The Free Speech Coalition Less than 24 hours after celebrating our partial-win for New Zealand media, our worst fears have come true. While ethnic and rural/community newspapers have been spared, the same cannot be said of the magazines the Government has forced to shut up shop. A few
An NZ Herald cartoonist, a nasty, spiteful, leftist, oik at the best of times, recently published a disrespectful cartoon depicting his version of Simpson and his donkey. He even tweeted some commentary: If only it were true that Jacinda Ardern had finally cracked the Aussie nut. The truth is actually
Media Henry Cooke (Stuff): There’s no easy way for Government to save media drowning. But a fast fix is needed Rachel Stewart (Democracy Project): Can the noble cause of journalism be restored? Rick Neville (Stuff): Why the Government must take some blame for Bauer Media’s closure Martyn van
Today’s cabinet decision Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day dawns for PM Jacinda Ardern over Covid-19 lockdown John Armstrong (1News): Why New Zealand has to remain in lockdown Pattrick Smellie (Herald): Govt needs to lock down convincing exit strategy (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): What will be on cautious PM’
Eliminating Covid-19 Derek Cheng (Herald): Eliminating Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern’s trailblazing mission that we may have already won (paywalled) Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why the hero-worship of Jacinda Ardern is unhealthy Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: The Challenge of speaking “truth to power” in a time
Election Josie Pagani (Herald): Contest is between the haves and the have-yachts (paywalled) Tim Watkin (RNZ): Gulliver’s Election… and is Labour angling to govern alone? Stephen Levine (The Conversation): Stardust and substance: New Zealand’s election becomes a ‘third referendum’ on Jacinda Ardern’s leadership AAP: Analysis: What
Greens and Labour coalition deal Matthew Hooton (Herald): Green deal radically strengthens Ardern while gagging Shaw and Davidson (paywalled) Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s agreement with Greens shows her iron fist Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour gets to be magnanimous, the Greens get a good deal Herald: Editorial: Jacinda Ardern
David Farrar Free Speech Coalition In a matter of days the Government has reconsidered its definition of “essential media” so that it will now include those publications which meet the following criteria: serves a need for hard to reach rural communities, with reduced connectivity, and/or serves non-English speaking
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Claire Trevett in the NZ Herald reports: “PM Jacinda Ardern gets blood out of a stone from Australia – this time.” Again I’m forced to read between the lines (and BS). I understood that when Australia’s PM Scott Morrison announced his Government’s “Job Keeper” package, it was a
Enforcing the lockdown, civil liberties Heather Roy (Democracy Project): The Long Road Back to Full Democracy Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Lockdown solution to Covid-19 deserves far more scrutiny, former Labour speechwriter says Democracy Project: Mark Blackham: Working class bearing the brunt of Covid-19 (interview) Scott Hamilton (Spinoff): ‘Let
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Public health strategy Derek Cheng (Herald): Lockdown ‘not enough’, top professor tells Govt video conference Derek Cheng (Herald): Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant (paywalled) James Fyfe (Newshub): Sir David Skegg urges Government to show clear plan to eliminate COVID-19 Jamie Ensor (Newshub): New Zealand still
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