Category: News
Regarding “call-out culture”: the uncontained fury of the imagined teenage Tumblr feminist
- Morgan Davie
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Recently Jonathan Chait generated a lot of heat online for a New York mag piece raging about a new era of political correctness.
Read MoreRelaX-Factor
- Nick Fone
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I figured the Rumi needed some sort of trashy blog about this reality TV shitstorm to demonstrate site diversity.
Read MoreTV3: Seemingly prepared to help the Nats with a dirty deal
- Lord Sutch
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I’m a big defender of our media. I’ve copped some flak for it, but I think that on the whole our reporters do a reasonably good job
Read MoreJohn Key: I don’t even know what the GCSB is
- Guest Post
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By New New Zealand News correspondent Charles Harrison In a belligerent press conference, John Key has admitted he isn’t sure what the GCSB does.
Read MoreAll sorted for Es and Whizz
- Lord Sutch
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So people are up in arms, in ARMS about the Police’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards speeding over the Christmas period. And by zero tolerance I mean that if you went over 100/kmh by even 2km you got a ticket.
Read MoreThe case for stricter surveillance laws/the case for fewer surveillance laws
- Lord Sutch
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On the afternoon the Martin Place Siege was happening, I tweeted the following (and no, don’t worry, it’s not flippant):
Read MoreNicky Hager and the false flag
- Lord Sutch
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So a lot of people are up in arms about the raid on Nicky Hager’s house. According to reports from media and a statement from the man himself, the police showed up when he wasn’t there, executed a search warrant and took a bunch of stuff from his house.
Read MoreMy list of things I probably won’t be dressing as this Halloween
- Lord Sutch
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Halloween is approaching, and though in New Zealand we half-ass it in comparison to our American friends, a lot of people still get into the spirit of it.
Read MoreŌtautahi Spring
- Donna Robertson
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Christchurch is verdant, floral, and blossomy.
Read MoreMedia media media
- Lobby Lud
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I have to disagree with my mate Rumi. I don’t think the media are our friends and I’d rather they weren’t.
Read MoreThe mainstream media’s secret agenda
- Guest Post
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By Cameron Murray The following is an opinion piece, that opinion is mine.
Read MoreThoughts on media coverage of the election #3
- Lobby Lud
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Media rant 12 days to go
Read MoreThe media, they’re our friends
- Lord Sutch
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Hello New Zealand, you seem a touch angry. We at the Ruminator tried to cheer you up by reminding you that New Zealand is pretty amazing
Read MoreThoughts on media coverage of the election #2
- Lobby Lud
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Media rant 15 days to go
Read MoreBoomtown/Ghost-town
- Donna Robertson
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Where are we at? Four years ago, on 4 September 2010, Christchurch and Canterbury was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. This morning I went back to my old stomping ground.
Read MoreCh-ch-ch-changes
- Donna Robertson
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I worked in Christchurch’s CBD until Labour weekend last year. Now I work in Linwood, but I still commute via the CBD. It gives me a good chance to keep an eye on what’s changing around the central city.
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