Every so often the Business Roundtable and the right-wing ‘think tank’ the Maxim Institute bring overseas speakers to the country to tell us...
IT'S A TOUGH LIFE BEING A CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCILLOR..
Christchurch City Councillors earn some $83,000. What do they do to justify such high salaries? Who knows - because they are not accountable...
SIDESHOW BOB THROWS MORE MONEY AT NEW COUNCIL BUILDING
Just two days before the local body elections closed in October last year the Christchurch City Council voted to spend $103 million on new c...
HANOVER FALLS OVER
And now Hanover Finance, New Zealand’s third largest finance company, teeters on the brink of extinction. The company has basically given th...
KIWI FM AND THE YOUTH RADIO NETWORK
I was kind of surprised that Kiwi FM’s station manager Karyn Hay chose to respond to my criticisms of Kiwi FM – this is hardly the NZ Heral...
HENDERSON IN THE HIGH COURT
An application for the liquidation of Dave Henderson’s Property Ventures and Five Mile Holdings was adjourned for a week in the High Court y...
VEITCH RESIGNS - BUT HIS MEDIA MATES DEFEND HIM
He’s gone. Tony Veitch has pulled the plug on his media career - before his two employers, TVNZ and The Radio Network, did it for him. Now h...
SIDESHOW BOB BLOWS HIS OWN TRUMPET
Sideshow Bob has been patting himself on the back again (because no-one else will do it for him), claiming that the ‘biannual residents'...
HE’S A MATE Mmm, I saw ‘lad’ Martin Devlin defending the violent Tony Veitch on TV1’s Breakfast the other day. Hold on – is this is the same...
TVNZ IS A GREAT PUBLIC BROADCASTER! YEAH, RIGHT...
The policy announcement by the National Party that it would scrap Television New Zealand’s ‘charter’ – supposedly in place to ‘entrench’ TVN...
IT'S ALL OVER FOR HENDERSON
Like a B movie, the collapse of Dave Henderson’s property ‘empire’ is coming to its tawdry climax. As it hinted last week that it would, Han...
THE APOLOGY THAT WASN'T
Tony Veitch’s public 'apology' yesterday about his violent behaviour was a carefully scripted and structured performance, designed t...
VEITCH GETS THE RED CARD
The public outcry has been overwhelming and finally, both TVNZ and The Radio Network (TRN) have bowed to public pressure: Tony Veitch has b...
WHEN SPORTS BROADCASTERS GO BAD
TVNZ, the very same media organisation that recently ran anti-domestic violence commercials is the very same media organisation that knew fo...
LABOUR: 'THE PARTY OF OWNERS'
National is the political party of business and farmers so policy is always going to bend in their favour… Martyn ’Bomber’ Bradbury, Tumeke...
JOHN KEY! THE NEW LIBERAL BOGEYMAN!
So author Nicky Hager says John Key and the National Party are using the services of Australian PR firm, Crosby-Textor. So what? Like Hager...
HERE COMES HELL!
Carbon trading schemes are a PR con. Biofuels are depriving the world's poor of sufficient food, leading to mass starvation. James Ayer...
WILL THE MYSTERY CALLER PLEASE SIGN IN...
Credit where credit is due. Like many other mainstream media outlets the Christchurch Press has been guilty of giving right wing ‘libertari...
CHRISTCHURCH COUNCIL RENTS GO UP TODAY- OMBUDSMAN INVESTIGATES
As New Zealand heads into deepest winter and into economic recession, Christchurch mayor Sideshow Bob Parker and his loathsome council suppo...
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