Daily review 04/05/2023

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12 comments on “Daily review 04/05/2023 ”

  1. Johnr 1

    Today I got an email from Hobsons Choice (Brashs brain child) signed by someone called Cassie. I haven't opened it but the heading was. " Did you see us in the Herald". Well no. Who buys and indeed reads the Herald ?

    My mother who died last last year aged 101 had access to the Herald all of her adult life, in the last 20/30 years she read the front page, letters to the editor and did both crosswords. If the crosswords hadn't been printed she wouldn't have bought it.

    This brought me to thinking. How do we receive our information today.

    My four children most who are in their 50s, their children (all voting age) and their grandchildren. Do not read newspapers, do not watch TV news or listen to current affairs radio.

    How the hell is anybody with political ambitions going to reach our modern society.

    Be interested in reading your guys plan B

    • weka 1.1

      How the hell is anybody with political ambitions going to reach our modern society.

      Social media and the internet. I go through phases of listening to RNZ, but most of my news and current affairs comes from TS and twitter. I follow many of the MSM outlets and the new media like Newsroom, the Spinoff, as well as journos. I follow links to MSM, social media and blogs. I ask people stuff.

      It's pretty easy to be connected if one wants to be. Whether one wants to be is another matter entirely, but I'm not sure it's that different from when we were all watching broadcast TV, listen to the radio and reading the local newspaper and the Listener.

  2. Stuart Munro 2

    How the hell is anybody with political ambitions going to reach our modern society.

    Ask Chloe – best communicator remaining in Parliament. If they wanted to win, the Greens would recognize that.

    • Johnr 2.1

      Yep, your plan B works for me

    • Anker 2.2

      Chole will have to come out as non binary. They can't get rid of Marama because she is Maori. And well James and Chole wouldn't fit the need for inclusivilty. Two cis gendered people leading the party. No no no no no!

      • Stuart Munro 2.2.1

        I suspect a few members understand the validity, especially for very small parties, of the ability to win an electorate seat.

        Marama probably remains quite popular, in spite of her anti-male rant, because it has not been her defining moment.

        EK … , well, the membership will decide. Not sure she's a hill they want the party to die on.

      • weka 2.2.2

        Chole will have to come out as non binary. They can't get rid of Marama because she is Maori. And well James and Chole wouldn't fit the need for inclusivilty. Two cis gendered people leading the party. No no no no no!

        Are you being wholly sarcastic? Davidson can be replaced, and besides, she's not immortal. The rule is one co-leader needs to be Māori. eg if Tuiono was male coleader, Swarbrick could be the other coleader.

        Or the coleaders could be Davidson and Swarbrick.

    • weka 2.3

      what makes you think they don't recognise that? She's third on the party list for the election, she's fronting MSM regularly.

  3. RP Mcmurphy 3

    Nationals party got drubbed at Question Time in the house today. Willis lost her temper and it was all downhill after then.

  4. SPC 4

    Taking the role being part of the of the alt media too seriously, Glenn Greenwald claims Jen Psaki State Department Spokesperson is a sociopath, has no moral code and has a broken soul.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DogPuNGE430

  5. tWiggle 5

    Classic example of not listening to the words used.

    Psaki states it is 'the policy of the US government' to support legal transition of governmental power, implying internationally, as well as domestically. Policy, simply, is not the same as action. A government will act against policy when it suits its interests.

    She is a government spokesperson, and telling unvarnished truth is not her job. Psaki did not lie, but she did look uncomfortable.

  6. Thinker 6

    'We're not accountable to U': Te Pāti Māori not revealing Whaitiri correspondence with Speaker (msn.com)

    This from newshub…

    I don't fully understand the rules and laws behind it (maybe someone can elaborate), but it seems to me that, if she hasn't resigned from Labour – and, surely someone would have told Chris Hipkins if she had, even if wasn't Meka – then Labour ought to grab the bull by the horns and start proceedings to expel her.

    Does someone understand the politics behind all this? I'd like to figure out what's going on backstage…