Posts by Stephen Judd
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Yeah, I have met David and followed his career with interest. He genuinely is a very busy guy with fingers in a lot of pies. I am quite certain he does not have the time to impose a sane moderation policy on Kiwiblog.
Whether he eggs the nutjobs on - maybe. I remember him writing a while ago about how he loved Ann Coulter not for what she said, but for how she enraged liberals, and no doubt that applies to his own private wingnut collection too.
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And to extend that analogy, I/S was suffering from those same dogs roaming.
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Maybe what I meant was you don't need to whistle the dogs when they're ravening beasts with spittle-foamed muzzles already.
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I/S and DPF both are avowedly too busy to police comments, and have taken opposite approaches. I don't see DPF dogwhistling so much as having commenters who will seize on anything.
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That was Jeremy who said that. But I reckon we should avoid calling people names because it's rude and wrong, not because we fear a smack in the teeth...
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I agree with Heather, Keith. I've never heard "coconut" used in the way you suggest.
In your urban dictionary link, meaning 2 is the New Zealand usage, all the others are clearly non-New Zealand, with their references to groups that are not salient minorities in NZ (like Mexicans and Filipinos).
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Jason: yeah, an online-only newspaper is not going to earn the returns demanded by its shareholders.
I wonder though whether a co-op, or a lean little owner-operated business (like PA, or TPM) has the same management cost structures as an old-school paper. I don't think they do. A journalist in the "screwed online newspaper" model is screwed because they can't support the admin and management staff and make a decent return on shareholders' funds. Josh Marshall just has to support himself...
Talking Points Memo is particularly interesting. There's no question that they research and break serious, credible stories, in that objective third person voice Keith mentions.
I don't see why in future sites like TPM can't take the place of newspapers. After all the trust and credibility newspapers enjoy fundamentally rests on their readers' perceptions of their reporting. It isn't inherent to the medium. If that were to happen, such sites would still have journalists. They'd be online journos instead of newspaper journos, that's all.
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what is the equivalent term for Maori / Pacific Islanders who have undergone the same cultural shift?
In my day they were called Mallowpuffs.
White on the outside, but partly brown on the inside.
Try-hards.
(I mean that with aroha, of course).
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"I wonder how I would feel if I was Ron."
Very pleased with myself, should think.
I think there is a big difference between expressing opinions that are outside group norms, and deliberately baiting people.
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What about those courthouse step remarks of Rickards about how hard-done-by his mates were? It's not a good look for a senior policeman to effectively say that a successful police prosecution was wrong. Isn't that misconduct?