Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to FletcherB,
The entire content of the "news article" is a commentary repeating what other non-entities have said on twitter (or similar) ABOUT the earlier comment/action.event..
Why or how is this news?
Strange watching the transition of newspaper websites into social media aggregators.
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I have no issue with journalists using twitter or similar to source stories - I enjoy interacting with them in that space myself.
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Ignoring the timing of funding commitments and election campaigns may be convenient for evil astroturfers but don't training courses still instil the basic 'Ws' in journos?
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Of course not. You can see why people might resort to physical violence against privileged establishment shitheads like that.
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to eszett,
As the "founding father" of the TPU he quite likes to push the "scandals" they have uncovered.
Sheesh. Who do you think creates them?
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to Anne Elliot,
It's her editors, to be fair. That piece of copypasta crap should never have been published if media were still operating to any professional principles.
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't want to bash a single journalist, though. This is really systemic.
Yes I realised after I wrote that. Main problems are pressure on often junior journos to file stories fast - and lax, unethical oversight from editors and publishers.
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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to MxDEJ,
Who was the Herald 'journalist' credited with the story?
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Hard News: Music! That one album, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
And as RNZ's Alex Behan says, her 2nd listing for the final night means new material for sure.
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Slate picks 2016 as word of the year, notes other awards.
Oxford Dictionaries chose post-truth. Dictionary.com selected xenophobia. The Cambridge Dictionary picked paranoid, and the Collins Dictionary Brexit. Merriam-Webster is coming later this week, but fascism is leading its pack.
It’s “Word of the Year” season, when lexicographers and linguists name one word that best sums up the top cultural themes, online look-ups, or language patterns and innovations in the past 365 days.
So far, the winning words, capturing the ascendant bigotry and factual relativism that marked so much of the year, aren’t trying to hide that 2016 was pretty bleak—which is why the 2016 word of the year shouldn’t be a word at all. It should be a number: 2016.