Why does the blog exist?

The blogosphere in New Zealand has become highly blogospherical—it centres mainly around itself and only hesitantly networks with other forms of media. This is insular and problematic because it has meant that you get three types of blogs detailed below:

Partisan Hackery: You have the big right wing blogs versus the big left wing blogs. Both side taking great pleasure in trying to prove the other wrong. You also have x amount of other blogs out there dedicated to pushing a front of agendas.

Teen Angst: I’m going to go cut myself. Life is so hard. I’m telling the world because my parents don’t listen to me. Here is some poetry I wrote the other night when I cried myself to sleep after seeing a dog get hit by a car etcetera etcetera.

Corporate whore: Blogs which aren’t actually blogs but cunning marketing ploys by companies like Fairfax, APN and others, to make you think that their writers actually have lives. This is a lie.

This situation was allowed to develop for a couple of reasons. Firstly that journalists are underpaid and under appreciated. It is a sad unspoken truth that many stories come directly off some of the most partisan blogs.

People are constantly presenting things wrong. Whether this is because their opinions get in the way of facts, their misguided world view skews the truth. We don’t know why this is. We really don’t care. What we do care about is that people are wrong. We will correct the wrongs and we will ridicule those who get things wrong.

We are never wrong.

Target

While goals of the two absolute geniuses seem divergent they are complimentary. Mr Wood will be catering to the newsy side, Mr Miles will be providing the ranting side of blogs that you’ve grown to love.

Our target audience goes further than normal left/right paradigm that has developed in the New Zealand blogosphere. We hope that the information, opinion and satire we deliver will be non partisan, free from spin. Or at least, will spin both ways, because we know that’s how you like it.

Path

Provide painfully digestible information about our opinions on politics, media and the blogosphere without actually

Try and go beyond the conception of what a New Zealand politics blog currently is by providing actual reporting, not just opinion, interviews, video snippets and guest posts

Mission Statement

To provide incisive satire and amazing analysis of politics, media and current affairs in a way that makes unintelligible dialogue fun and easy to engage in.

Authors

The current absolute geniuses writing for this blog—we will hopefully be adding more soon—are

Jackson James Wood

A philanthropist at heart and a devil in the sack, Mr Wood is a former editor of the Victoria University of Wellington student magazine Salient. He  ran in the Mount Albert by-election as an independent candidate.

Disclosure: Jackson works for Parliamentary Services and has vaguely left wing-liberal leanings. Currently works as a Political and Media Advisor to the Green Party in Parliament.

For Jackson’s full profile slaughter a newborn child and read the entrails.

Daniel J Miles

A melancholy, morose man, Mr Miles aims to lighten the absurdity of life by trying to laugh at it. He tries to live life vicariously through those poor unfortunates unlucky enough to meet him, most recently campaign managing fellow author Jackson James Wood in the Mount Albert by-election.

Disclosure: Daniel doesn’t believe in Satan, works for too little pay, and has vaguely right wing-liberal leanings. Politically celibate, he has never been a member of a political party.

For Daniel’s full profile and contact details, pray.

Trust us. We’re absolute geniuses