Thursday 29 June
New Current Affairs Blog
New Zealand's "most opinionated man" hooks up with New Zealand's most seditious man to launch a new current affairs
news blog - TUMEKE!
Bomber Bradbury - NZ Listener's "most opinionated man in New Zealand" and host of TV3's award-nominated current affairs
show Stake-out, has entered the blogosphere with Tim Selwyn - the country's only convicted seditious writer.
Resident guest blogger, Bomber Bradbury, says TUMEKE! is daily news and information source that takes advantage of the
freedom offered by today's generation of internet communications technology,
"A lot of the under 40 age group initially turned to digital media because what they were being served up from the
terrestrial mainstream media was bland, mediocre and usually very biased in the favour of the powerful news media
companies who fund them - this site will give people the chance to hear the other side of the argument", says Bradbury.
As well as providing a source for alternative current affairs news and opinion, TUMEKE! is a fulcrum of ideas allowing
readers to comment on news and opinion of the day.
Creator and editor, Tim Selwyn, says:
""Tumeke" is a Maori word meaning to startle and has more recently come to mean "too much". It is in that spirit that
alternative opinion and robust debate - beyond the control and sanction of corporate media - can take place. In an age
where blogs can break news stories and ask the important questions before they reach the mainstream media means we are
often ahead of public opinion in many areas. The blog's brother site
www.tumeke.org offers complimentary in-depth and magazine-style content."
ENDS