Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Just in case you forgot what Tory Whanau looks like, the Dom Post has some more photos of her

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I remarked to a friend this morning that if the Wellington mayoralty is determined by the number of times Tory Whanau’s photo appears on the...
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Monday, August 29, 2022

And they wonder why media credibility has nosedived ...

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  Readers may have noted David’s comment yesterday under my post about the Stuff documentary Fire and Fury . David, a journalist of long e...
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Sunday, August 28, 2022

A few thoughts on Stuff's Fire and Fury documentary

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I didn’t intend to watch Stuff’s video documentary Fire  and Fury , but after reading Stuff columnist Jenny Nicholls’ gushing review (headl...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

A few thoughts on the Sharma affair

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Overwhelmingly, the opinion of press gallery journalists – including some for whom I retain a degree of respect – seems to be that Gaurav Sh...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

"Coconut"? I thought New Zealand left that sort of language behind in the 1960s

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Simon Wilson reports in the New Zealand Herald that Auckland mayoral frontrunner Efeso Collins, who is of Samoan and Tokelauan descent, de...
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Let Arps stand and see what happens

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There’s been a lot of squawking and hand-wringing over white supremacist Philip Arps’ bid for election to a Christchurch high school board. ...
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The obituary the Dom Post couldn't be stuffed publishing

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Alan Burnet (pictured) died on July 18, aged 101. I offered to write an obituary for The Dominion Post but was turned down. I assumed at ...
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