It’s neoliberalism, stupid’ New Zealand media and the NZME-Fairfax merger
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Date
2016
DOI
Open Access Location
Authors
Phelan SP
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Volume Title
Publisher
Counterfutures
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Abstract
AT THE JAIPUR literary festival in January 2015, the
writer Eleanor Catton described New Zealand as a country
governed by ‘neoliberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow,
very money-hungry politicians who do not care about culture’.1
The comments generated much media controversy in her
homeland. Catton was denounced for her insolence, ingratitude,
and even traitory. Some right-wing pundits disparaged what
they saw as her politically illiterate use of the term ‘neoliberal’.
Her comments triggered a local version of a reactionary discourse
that regards the concept of neoliberalism as the paranoid creation
of left conspiracy theorists.
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Keywords
Neoliberalism, New Zealand media, political economy, Fairfax/NZME merger, Public media, Ideology, Discourse
Citation
Counterfutures; Left Thought & Practice Aotearoa, 2016, 2 (2), pp. 193 - 202