We'll be looking at media coverage of the Budget on Media7 this week: examining the language of Budget delivery, its subsequent interpretation and who really had something useful to say. I'd like you to help me crowdsource that analysis. ¶
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Here's the thing about economics: it determines the way we live our lives, but most of us are shut out from discussing it -- by language or privilege, or simply because it seems too hard. Thus do assumptions go unchallenged...
There was some outrage recently when a feature in the Dominion Post put Paula Bennett, who had just announced the government's intention to fund long-term contraception for beneficiaries, in the same frame as Josef Mengele, the Nazi "doctor" at Auschwitz...
"I think," tweeted Gemma Gracewood from New York, "that the TVNZOnDemand version of the feature-length episode of Shortland Street should be ungeoblocked just for my birthday." ¶
Good point, I thought. Global distribution deals notwithstanding, doesn't the diaspora deserve a break...
Jed Soane has been taking photographs for Field Theory for a while now. Along with Mike Roseingrave (now in Melbourne), Jed has followed me on some crazy adventures over the years. ¶
Recently Jed has upped his game with the Beer...