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This is the first appearance of The Hendo Files this year. I think I was suffering from Hendo burnout - I've been writing about our lib...

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Every day of the week Christian fundamentalists appear on our television screens claiming to cure people of cancer and various other life ...

While I have no love for the Labour Party, it would be nice to think - if just for the sake of meaningful political discussion generally - t...

Get the feeling that this Government, and the Minister of Broadcasting in particular, are not exactly big fans of public broadcasting? Indee...

After recently castigating C4 for axing T he Daily Show I was pleased to learn that Jon Stewart's demise has only been temporary. He wi...

Anyone interested in reading some debate on the New Zealand's media's coverage of the Haiti earthquake and subsequent events I ref...

Suddenly 'nice' John Key doesn't seem so nice after all - especially if you are on a low income or benefit. The proposed tax cha...

Although it might pretend otherwise, TVNZ News bears little relationship to what it might be described as serious, in-depth journalism. Ra...

Trapped within the neoliberal framework which has been the economic orthodoxy in New Zealand for the past twenty-five years, John Key and hi...

Jon Stewart's The Daily Show got a raw deal from Mediaworks which stuck the show on at 10.30pm on the low rating C4. It's an intel...

The figures look bad but we always knew they would be. For the three months to December 2009 unemployment rose from 6.5 percent to 7.3 perce...

It's not so much a case of 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here' but more a case of 'I'm a celebrity, I'm rais...

In Britain last month a socialist electoral alliance was launched to fight this year's general election. It's called the Trade Union...

We are witnessing an American military coup in Haiti, writes John Pilger. The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On January 22, the Un...