Posts by stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz
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I noted in her radio interview and in that new column she makes much of people mounting "ad hominem" attacks rather than criticising the "argument". This is a good example of DC's tactics---rather than address the issue, complain about how you were treated by those who disagreed with you. Anyhow, when writing an opinion piece (as the latest column certainly was, and as the N&S column must be viewed, given the way the statistics were used to mislead and reinforce a certain view when they in fact do not support that view) surely, since it is your opinion then you must expect to be attaked for that opinion, and therefore to be personally attacked! The disingenuous, self-congratulatory tone around being pleased to have raised a serious issue that needs debating is intellectually (and surely therefore journalistically) very dishonest. DC uses this cover very often, it seems. Shouting "Fire" in a crowded cinema just to get people talking about how all the emergency exits are locked (and ignoring the "collateral damage" that would ensue) is not clever!
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Suely there's now a law against inciting racial hatred---especially if you do it intentionally? And what reason save inciting hatred (or stoking that which, sadly, already exists widely in NZ) would there be for writing such an article, and then making a big deal about it?
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Something else that has bothered me (perhaps wrongly) but which I heard somewhere near the beginnng of all the reporting on the stadium: Eden Park is privately owned (by a trust fund??)---so why would the tax payer be happy to, presumably, swell the coffers of a trust? Do we know (can we know?) who the beneficiaries would be?