Posts by Don Christie
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Pick up the phone and ask for it.
That's surely not how parties are briefed about legislation that's up for debate, is it?
No they have to arrange to meet first. The Herald blog said Helen Clarke, no less, called McCully to make such arrangements and was told to shove it.
Key: The way it was relayed to me was that she [Clarke] rang him [McCully] and said, look, as they have said to us on before number occasions `we'd like to get this thing over the line and we have always made it clear, carve out complementaries and we are there.
Herald: If the Prime Minister invites National to a briefing about the proposal why didn't you say yes.
Key: I wasn't aware of it. She didn't invite me to a briefing.
That is breathtaking.
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At that time Apple Computers were at the nadir of their commercial history.
Steve Jobs is a tit isn't he? There he goes claiming credit for Apple's resurgence when all the time Shortland Street was responsible. Time for some Wikiality I think.
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I'd start with accuracy. Saying someone said something they didn't say, or is something that they are not, is unfair
Quite so. But summarising someone's case is often done by journalists, unless their job is to simply regurgitate press releases.
The arguement is therefore whether that summary was an accurate representation (as opposed to putting words insomeones mouth). My point is that given the context and supporting comments by FF, it was.
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Don - I still think that a little unfair to FF.
Graeme, if you want to stick up for a group that thinks rights for children are PC nonsense be my guest. Where would you draw the fairness line?
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but above all reduce class sizes.
Amen to that.
Although no doubt these groups were afraid to bite the hand that feeds them.
Correct. Who is paying the Families First bills? And please, spare me the "concerned citizens" line.
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“All of these young people have entered a system of education and society where discipline and responsibility are being replaced by the politically correct nonsense of childrens’ rights,”
Graeme, I think that this part of the quote is a fair basis for the Herald byline.
Since when have "childrens' rights" been "nonsense" anyway?
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The Herald *is* a biased, authoritarian-conservative paper
Is that a change of tone in recent years? I must admit I have been quite surprised on the odd occassion recently I have picked up the Herald at just how reactionary it seemed. In a way a hadn't noticed in the past.
This from a DomPost reader, a paper whose roots are in the business community but which seems remarkably balanced in comparison.
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10cc
Oh.
I thought it described my first motorbike.
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Actually, I take that last sentence back. I realise this is select committee report, apologies.
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Now I have not been accused of being a big critic of this Government, but surely this is one of the worst bits of legislation that has been passed in a long time. Something that hand over the right to make criminals of folks to the whim of corporates is just nuts. I also confidently predict that not a single NZ artist will be better off as a result of these changes.
Judith Tizard, if it is she who is still responsible for this, deserves all the brickbats coming her way.