Archive for August 12th, 2005

The law overrules media freedom

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Yesterday a court ruling was made that forced a NZ TV station to have two political party leaders on a televised debate. The 6 highest-polling party leaders were invited onto a political debate for the upcoming election, and two political leaders who weren't invited, because they weren't up there with the polling figures, went to court in order to force the TV station to let them into the debate. In a matter of hours, the court ruled in their favour, forcing the TV station to allow them onto the debate.


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Multiculturalism

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Back in very late 2003 - or was it very early 2004? Somewhere around there - I was seeing Jhen Jhen, a Chinese girl. On this one particular day, we went up the cable car to the top of the mountain. Now, strangely enough, when we got onto the cable car, we were the only two people on it. Apart from the driver. So there we were, waiting for the car to go, when another two people got onto the car.


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