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Apr 13, 2020Liked by Hamish McKenzie

Worth reaching out to Joseph and the team at scoop.co.nz they are in the process of transforming their entire model and I thought might be able to provide some awesome support here.

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Fantastic piece. Even more relevant now!

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Whether or not you are talking up Substack, there's an enormous amount of cogent thinking in here. Thanks.

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Sounds great to me.

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Hamish I'm sure that you know that for the last several years of overwraught Covid drama (I'm being kind) that the NZ government has been subsidizing NZ media so much that it almost feels like we're in the Soviet Union circa 1974 and the only media that we're allowed to read is Pravda, the truth. And basically the NZ Government has not only claimed to be the one source of truth (source Ardern) but actually have been the one source of truth (in Pravda style of course).

Did they not send any of this funding your way?

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Didn’t know that Substack was partly NZ owned. This makes me extra happy to be here!

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Moving from printed media to easily shaped non print digital media. Or as Chris Hedges puts forward in his book Empire of Illusion. The cultural embrace of illusion and celebrity culture have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, which creates vast wealth for elites. Corporations have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. Hedges exposes the mechanisms that undermine our democracy and divert us from the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now."

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