Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Bart Janssen,
flub
Not yours - the site doesn't honour end quote tags straight after certain characters. Inserting an extra trailing space is the workaround.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Before MMP, majority governments resulted from every FPP election in New Zealand from 1935 to 1993.
FFS, how can a senior journalist not grasp the basic concept of majority.
One of the reasons we ditched FPP was the way it allowed parties with a minority of votes to be the government. How do we make the editors and producers who let such lies into print or on-screen accountable?
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to BenWilson,
What I found was that NZF voters were very hard to distinguish from Labour voters. The most dividing question was not (as I’d predicted beforehand) something to do with immigration or opinions on gays. It was whether the person trusted internet banking. This was pretty clearly a proxy question to a demographic distinction (probably age).
You sure it wasn't an indication of *who* they trust, more broadly? Private sector, state, community, family, self - that sort of thing. Did any other questions bear on that?
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Our expectation is the media has the role of bringing truth to bear on the state.
I'd like to see journalism activities regulated more explicitly, given that the media industry has shown us quite clearly now that it cannot be trusted to keep to basic ethical standards.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
two track dirty politics
but this time it only needed one track - which most media obediently followed.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I like that idea.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to simon g,
He's a great statesman, you know.
and such tasty boots.
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't have the time or energy to write something new today
If only that were true of our media, who will insist on spraying reckons for the next couple of weeks even though there is nothing new to base reports on.
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DPA eagerly awaits
We deserve more active advocacy, community organising and leadership than that.
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Kia ora. Closing this thread now to ensure we meet the provisions of the Electoral Act. May open again after 7pm tomorrow.