It sounds a lot like The Platform mark two – but The Common Room has different goals, its co-founders tell Duncan Greive. The Common Room says it is about “big ideas, unpacked”, and primarily produces a weekly video of around five minutes in length. It is the topic selection which reveals the hand of those behind The Common Room. It seems telling that The Common Room is animated by a certain scepticism of political correctness while it also adopts the sort of language it favours. There’s Mike King (Ngāpuhi) doing Mike King things, and Paula Bennett (Tainui) talking about how she became a right wing person.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 23, 2022 21:49 UTC