Today’s content
Campaign
John Armstrong (Herald): National careful not to name NZ First as spendthrifts
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Election 2014 like a James Bond plot
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Press Leaders Debate 2014
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Will Labour abolish three strikes for repeat serious offenders?
Newswire: Panel backs Cunliffe's warning
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Election 2014: How to make sense of spending promises (paywalled)
Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): 60 tweeps to follow this election
Dave Clarkson (Stuff): Man admits defacing National Party billboards
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The irony of National's housing policy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Maori Party list
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is it weird Radio NZ ban me yet still have….
Mark Sainsbury (Herald): Animals still need help after election
Simon Wilson (Metro): Meanwhile, Down On The Farm…
Andrea Vance (Stuff): The slick and the dead calm
TVNZ: Bill English plays down tax cut talk
Newswire: Labour policy to protect gay students
Claire Trevett (Herald): Mine blast rings on in PM's ears
Herald: Cameras to nail election billboard vandals
Herald: Newcomers jump up the party list as Williams dumped
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Govt looking at charter rules change
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour's three gender options for passports
Herald: Editorial: Abandoned policies show Labour's new responsibility
Grant Shimmin (Stuff): Editorial: Time to be informed
Michelle A’Court (Stuff): Could Mary please stand up and take charge?
Stuff: Campaign Diary: Tuesday, 28 August
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Pike River families face PM
TVNZ: New Zealanders want parole scapped, Colin Craig says
David Snell (Stuff): Capital gains tax: Exempting the family home
Brook Sabin (TV3): Pike families dissatisfied with PM's visit
Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Division over KiwiSaver's future
Claire Trevett (Herald): Government to continue $50m rural broadband levy
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe quiet on assets
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour will give policy on state asset buy-backs
Radio NZ: Conservatives release party list
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Tax cuts policy still elusive
Mark Hubbard (Life behind the iron drape): New Zealand’s Race Debate: Classical Liberalism & Partnership Separatism - Parallelism - with Maori
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): National's Deputy Leader in the dark over Ministerial staff rules
Election songs
John Armstrong (Herald): Hip-hop song scrapes bottom of rotten barrel
Russell Brown (Public Address): Media Take: Election Songs
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): It’s alive!
Claire Trevett (Herald): Key says daughter should be off limits
TVNZ: Police assessing 'Kill the PM' song
Jono Natusch: That joke isn’t funny anymore
Radio NZ: Musician seeks Planet Key ban repeal
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Hip hop death threats – the selective outrage of our media
Man of errors: @Peace
Anthony Robins (The Standard): Condemning the obvious
TV3: Family First condemns 'Kill the PM' song
Dirty Politics
Anne Salmond (Herald): Royal commission needed to clean up dirty politics
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Dirty Politics should add spice to TV debate
Stuff: Cunliffe: New Zealand's grubbiest election campaign yet
Craig McCulloch (Radio NZ): Judith Collins digs in over Dirty Politics
Brent Edwards (Radio NZ): National told to get rid of 'rogue elements'
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): PM urged to rethink relationship with blogger
James Ireland (Stuff): Collins stays confident about Papakura
Kate Davis (Daily Blog): An Old and Honourable Profession
The Standard: All Antennae – No Compass
Richard Swainson (Stuff): When privacy goes flying out the window
Stuff: Plunket apologises over Gower ambush
The Standard: Tapping the media: subverting democracy
Nelson Mail: Collins conspicuous by her absence
Giovanni Tiso (Ban beam bean): The Jane Clifton continuum
Chloe King (Daily Blog): An open letter to David Farrar: Please, be that guy
Zayrd Wilson (Wanganui Chronical): Wanganui man outed in Hager's book
New Zealand First
Hamish Rutherford and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Asset shopping may woo Peters to Labour
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): NZ First is Luigi Peters
Tova O’Brient (TV3): NZ First's Andrew Williams out, Ron Mark on the up
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters' Two Wongs joke a bit of fun - poll
Derek Cheng (Herald): Andrew Williams set to be dumped after clash with party leaders
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Polished Winston finds himself in a home for the bewildered
Ian Llewellyn (Election data consortium): NZ First - Those Aged Over 65 Could Decide Next Government
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ First wipes Andrew Williams from list
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The NZ First list
Simon Wong (TV3): Andrew Williams quits NZ First
Internet Mana
Grant Miller (Stuff): Internet-Mana could influence election
Herald: Pam Corkery offered to resign - but won't apologise
Stuff: Corkery offers resignation after media clash
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Dotcom's 'bomb drop' could involve Assange
Other
Julia Hollingsworth (Newswire): John Banks' story backed by US businessmen
Radio NZ: Study links cancer to childhood poverty
Herald: Tests done in diplomat case
The Press: Editorial: Our job market; our rules apply
Dominion Post: School pressure will not be tolerated
David Killick (Stuff): Land key to housing crisis
Michael Fox (Stuff): Police draw a blank on Hone office shots
Matthew Beveridge: Guest post: Vernon Tava
No Right Turn: Monitoring the OIA: The view from FYI