"But social media universalised the issue. It made the world into a road and everyone else into passing cars. Just as you’re more likely to honk your horn and shout unspeakable things when a faceless figure in a metal box cuts you off in traffic, you’re more inclined to deliver a dehumanising screed of obscenities when someone is just an avatar saying annoying things."
#HaydenDonnell, column for @webworm, 2024
"[IDF] have admitted it was deliberate attack, but it claimed that [Anas] al-Sharif was Hamas operative. They called him a 'mouthpiece of intellectual terrorism'..."
#HaydenDonnell, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=36b8bb92-d72c-404b-8948-5850ce600cf6
"I think there's just been a long history of the media not applying sufficient scepticism to claims from tech companies."
#HaydenDonnell, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=ffac314f-a838-4e16-8fd2-b3d963235474
Preach.
#TIL about Get It To Te Papa, a Guy-Williams-esque docu-comedy series presented by Hayden Donnell;
The anthropmorphic cheese cutting a slice off itself is truly horrifying. Who at Big Fresh thought people would want to see that while grocery shopping?
"This is exactly the same mechanism to what free speech campaigners always complain about, which is called 'cancellation', which is just social media mobs disagreeing with you en masse, right?"
#HaydenDonnell, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018923260/midweek-mediawatch-h-ha-over-hui-coverage
No Hayden, cancellation is not people disagreeing with you. It's people trying to demonise you by willfully misrepresenting what you said or did, or making things up. Then trying to get more people to ignorantly echo them.
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"Many people accessing the Jobseeker benefit will be the product of those efforts to right the economy. Some would see a certain meanness in punishing them further given their desperation is in part deliberately engineered. There could even be an argument that beneficiaries are doing heroic work taking heat out of the job market– that they’re on the ground so the rest of us can soar high on the wings of inflation within the target band of 1 to 3%."
#HaydenDonnell, 2023
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-09-2023/is-nationals-biggest-issue-beneficiaries
"... being criticized by the right and left simultaneously isn't always a mark of impeccable fairness and balance, it could just mean that you're screwing up so catastrophically that your foolishness is now the subject of a makeshift bipartisan accord. Hi Elon Musk."
#HaydenDonnell
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018866668/mediawatch-for-13-november-2022
Strypey
