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What is 20/20 up to – are Kiwis that prudish?
A colleague forwarded me an email from a Sydney nightclub about an upcoming event. Very interesting. Hi there, 20/20 – a New Zealand news and current affairs show – are coming to the Hellfire Club this...
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King of the Gobbits, Paul Holmes and Hollywood don’t give a shit: actors are...
You know there’s one very good reason why New Zealand standards of living will never match Australia. His name is Paul Holmes. He is the new poison dwarf in the Gobbit story. If this is an example of...
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Tens of journalists rally to save the Gobbit and Lord Porkpie snarls at...
It is true. New Zealand is Middle Earth, complete with archaic employment laws, ignorant tribes of Gobbits and a semi-rural, semi-feudal social system that honours caste by birth or by wealth. Tens of...
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What’s wrong with this picture: One plucky demonstrator, two an anarchist...
Protesters against the government of Syria set fire to offices of the ruling party today while hundreds of political prisoners were released in a bid to appease the rioters. Syrian protestors torch...
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Consumerism by other means: #UKriots, burning Babylon and #neoliberalism
Guest post by Dr Wayne Hope Identifying the “causes” of major civil disturbances is always difficult, there are so many to choose from. Even the mundane vagaries of the weather have to be taken into...
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The rhetoric of chattering classes disguises anti-worker bias in limited news
When the ruling class feels strong and the political leadership of the labour movement is corrupt to the core, a political paralysis descends on the parliamentary wing of the working class...
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Up in smokes: Free speech fundamentalist shows true colours and logical...
Ah, the logic of fundamentalism. Whatever form it takes it can brook no subtlety, no fine distinction and no possible suggestion that it is ever, ever wrong. This applies to all fundamentalisms, not...
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Dr Windschuttle and Mr Windbag: Part 1 -left brain/right no brainer
Keith Windschuttle has become one of The Australian‘s go-to-guys in the 2012 version of media wars. The weekend edition of the national broadsheet has yet another self-indulgent full page devoted to...
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Media “reformers” drunk on Clayton’s tonic: How to be seen to be doing...
Well Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has finally let the skinny, de-clawed and highly-stressed cat out of the bag. This week he has announced a raft of media reforms that will be introduced into...
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One tweet does not a revolution make: Technological determinism, media and...
This is my recently published piece on technological determinism and revolution – case study of the Arab Spring. Reprinted from Global Media Journal Abstract This paper discusses the problematic...
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