Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: The next election is shaping up as trio versus trio, and a “riveting and ridiculous” new drama on TVNZ that’s worth putting your phone down for. But first: All 33 malls in Auckland ranked from worst to best.
Madeleine Chapman: “This is the hardest ranking we’ve ever done. A ranking of Auckland’s malls has been talked about for literal years in The Spinoff offices but every time it’s been floated, the sheer size of the task has quietened even the loudest of opinions and soon we’d pretend it was never mentioned. But when Joseph Harper filed his truly exceptional ranking of all 14 malls in Christchurch last month, we knew it was now or never. The task was too big for one person, and also would not have been a fair process. A single mind ranking something as broad and location-specific as 33 malls would be too much. So instead we called on seven Auckland-based Spinoff writers to divide and conquer, (re)visiting the malls in their designated regions before arguing for their places in the rankings at a roundtable. What we learned in doing this ranking is that ‘best Auckland mall’ is an oxymoron, in the same camp as ‘best traffic’. It almost feels wrong to give an award to any shopping mall but we’ve done it anyway.”
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