Authentic voices: It’s NOT the economy, stupid
Who are the authentic voices in the election campaign? And what do they think are the big issues? NewsWire’s LAURA FRYKBERG and JENNY MEYER cut through the spin and talked to Kiwi workers to find out....
View ArticlePre-election polls stacked up, the pundits not quite so much
JIM Bolger’s oft-quoted “bugger the polls” flew out the window on election night as the pollsters’ claims of a swing to the right stacked up. NewsWire‘s September poll highlighted the poor reporting of...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of blogging
DID RIGHT-wing bloggers cost Helen Clark the last election? “Traditional” commentators ridicule the idea, but some in the blogosphere see signs that it is an influential participant in politics. FOR...
View ArticlePublic half starved of real debate on election eve
Bryan Bruce. IMAGE: TV3. THE mediated public – malnourished as they are on a diet of superficiality and high sugar political rhetoric – should get to dine out on naked truth, at least once, before they...
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