Posts by phplad
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Would those who are disparaging of Assange please consider that the lawyers for Assange have suggested, and I think have for a while suggested, that Assange be interviewed by Swedish Police within the confines of the Ecuadorian Embassy,yet have consistently declined this opportunity.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/12/julian-assange-lawyers-appeal-against-swedish-ruling
In terms of the rape allegations the Guardian wrote the following in 2010, its not exactly bedtime reading but it does offer some context.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-swedenBack to the actual topic : I'm concerned that the appearance of Snowdon, Assange and Greenwald was ridiculed by the NZ media. Perhaps it's because I'm not very media savvy but I can not work out where in the chain our journalists are manipulated to the point they usually arrive at exactly the same conclusions and consistently fail to address the important questions, surely it is not just peer pressure.
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Speaker: The End of Trust, in reply to Pete,
My apologies Pete, you are correct that I have escaped from Kiwiblog and Stuff and yes it is taking a while to acclimatise to a more ideological environment :). It was an analogy relating to ignoring warnings and then mindlessly blaming politics as though it inherently bound to corrupt practices.
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I was in the car the other day, travelling on a wet slippery downhill road with off camber corners.
On the radio they had some road safety experts ranting on about being careful.
I immediately rang the radio station and accused them of conspiracies and fear-mongering and grilled them on where they got this information from
Unfortunately in what must be an unrelated coincidence, this caused me to slide off the road into a yard where some children were playing.
The police arrived , I shrugged my shoulders and said "ah well, thats just physics"
I hope my insurance will pay for the mess. -
Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Russell Brown,
thank goodness !
Now, how to nominate whaledump for the Canon media awards :) -
Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
yes, there would need to be a way of removing barriers to voting so that everyone could. It surprises me that our "polls" are made from 1000 potential voters , yet there are 3 million devices. The electoral commission also needs to release an electoral role API so that devs can authenticate unique voters without holding the whole role. Ironically it's not available for such purposes. It needs thought and discussion.
What gave me the idea was infact Hagers book and then suddenly finding myself listening to radio commentators interviewing guests who quote the NZTU for example. If I had a guide to tell me who sleeps with who I'd find it easier to compartmentalise their views :) whilst that knowledge might grow over time and with interest it should IMHO be disclosed to a reader, especially a vulnerable one. -
So, what to do.
How to unbreak this obviously broken system.
How much would the world change if we got rid of lobbyists and confidence and supply agreements. I keep going back to this idea of a model closer to direct democracy where politicians would vote exactly as their regularly polled constituents wished them to.
That of course puts even more power in the hands of media.
Is the media the broken system, could we fix it with a few tech innovations such as making the public aware of all sides of a story, surely we could show what and where they absorb media from and who wrote it, a crowd sourced opinion on the authors various view points, previous associations etc and of course who funded it.
So sad these last few weeks. We have simply shot and smeared the messenger, thats almost laughable in a what I assumed was an intelligent society, bad presumption on my part I guess but now I am worried for the intelligence of society moving forward. -
Poor old dotcom. Failed by the digital millennium act, the us copyright lobby and even our media have compromised their professionalism as they hacked him to bits over books and hitler hats. I fear the public wont know a smear campaign from a news article soon. I was going to buy the paper this morning but I didn't want to take the bmw out in public. Just in case.