Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Alfie,
Which sort of ignores the sworn statement provided by the Prime Minister, doesn't it.
English carefully avoided saying that Barclay was not present in the office at the time of the recordings, so his statement does not prove all the elements of the crime were present and chargeable.
As you say, a search warrant may have helped, but perhaps the plod thought they did not have enough to get one of those.
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Hard News: Our own fake news, in reply to Rob Stowell,
the taxwhinger's union
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Hard News: Our own fake news, in reply to simon g,
Why? Because they can. Not because they care. And that is on them. If they don't know the difference between censorship and basic professional standards, they really are a big part of the problem.
A good summary of the problem across media outlets: abandonment of editorial and journalistic standards where privileged broadcasting arrangements/licenses were only granted on the basis that those safeguards apply. Time to renegotiate the social contract?
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to Hilary Stace,
To be fair there has been a lot of opposition this term, but much of it happens in Parliament and not many people are watching.
If it is not competently publicised, it didn't happen.
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to nzlemming,
ah, that's right. class act.
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Investigation unfolds:
Police are now investigating National Party board member Glenda Hughes over her role in the Todd Barclay saga, Newshub has learned.
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Conformation from the PM's regular media conference today:
Prime Minister Bill English opened his press conference today by noting today's launch of the new Social Investment Agency Oranga Tangata. He said it's data-driven approach to seeing how well social spending succeeds would be rolled out to all Health, Education, and Welfare spending if a National government wins the election.
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Hard News: Friday Music: a New Zealand story, in reply to Shaun Scott,
one of the beauties of these types of lists is that it gets people posting other stuff that "should be on the list"
RNZ did leave open the prospect of further rounds.
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Hard News: Meth Perception, in reply to william blake,
It would seem to be in everybody's interest to have a meaningful standard of contamination.
Yes. Sadly this is not it.
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A Standards-setting committee stacked with rogue testing companies - what could possibly go wrong?