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  1. "I think the Green Party in Britain has adopted your wealth tax policy. But the centre-left Labour Party is not going to do that, are they."

    #GuyonEspiner, 2025

    rnz.co.nz/news/political/57927

    I don't want to pick on Guyon, but this is a classic example of news media defining 'centre-left' as 'whatever the largest liberal party says at any given time'. You'd think the NZ Labour of the 1980s would have showed them that's not a meaningful way to define it.

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    #30 #GaryStevenson #RNZ #podcasts

  2. New trains on way for lower North Island: 'This is a game-changer'

    I assume that as they now have toilets onboard they will extend the regular service from Waikanae to Levin or even Palmerston North. 🤔

    rnz.co.nz/news/national/572430

    #RNZ #WellingtonNZ #Trains #PublicTransport

  3. The RNZ Mediawatch team seem shocked that the emergence of TikTok has brought concerns about addiction, bullying, and so on:
    rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

    Clearly they haven't been listening to Douglas Rushkoff, Aral Balkan, Jaron Lanier, and the many others who have pointed out why all this is a natural and predictable consequence of corporate ownership, centralized platforms, and particularly datafarming revenue models.

    #RNZ #Mediawatch #datafarming #DouglasRushkoff #AralBalkan #JaronLanier