Posts by Russell Brown

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    I love the analysis about the cause of McCully's disquiet :-) Just how many "Dark Princes" does National need?

    I'll have a big Machiavelli and fries with that shake.

    (I'm not sure what I mean by that, but it sounded funny.)

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    Does anybody else think certain people are getting a little bit wrapped up in themselves when this is the first paragraph of the lead story on the New Zealand Herald's website?

    The relationship between the media and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has hit a new low.

    Sorry guys. Go and bitch about it over a drink after work, but don't act like your relationship with a politician is national news.

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    If only the media would stop asking the same questions which he oviously has no intention of answering - and who's going to make him? Perhaps they could instead dig up some of his many previous hypocritical utterances, read them out and just ask him to say where he stands by them now. Lil Winnie may wriggle or refuse to answer but the statements will be there to speak for themselves either way.

    As Clark put it, it looks like a case for the Court of Public Opinion.

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    That is debatable, the fact that he could hide the assets in his family trust and , therefore not declare them, is something that needs looking at and, in my opinion, Winnie was right in bringing it to the fore.

    It seems pretty desperate to me. Unless you're proposing to change the rules on family trusts for everyone, it wasn't a story.

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    Well, John Key could have asked Winston how big his cock is and that would have been ruled out of order too.

    I was going on what Brent Edwards said last night on Checkpoint: that National had an opportunity later, didn't take it and Peters was surprised: so much so that he turned to the National benches and said "Is that it?"

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  • Hard News: Not actually satire,

    I see The Standard beat me to it on the Brethren.

    And Craig Young scooped everyone ...

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  • Speaker: The Ultimate Flip-Flop,

    The first paragraph of Fran O'Sullivan's column today:

    The list of National's economic policy flip-flops has now grown so big that it's tempting to wonder if John Key is auditioning to be Helen Clark in drag

    Quite spooky really.

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  • Hard News: Part of nearly all our lives,

    __Summary stats for Kiwiblog/PA/Scoop are available:__

    Where did they get that info from?

    From the Nielsen demographic panel, which is into the thousands now, I think.

    Y'all are high-earning, highly-educated influencers who use the internet heaps.

    Our male-female balance is 55-45, which is actually pretty good for a blog site.

    Kiwiblog, as you might expect, is 2-1 male, and Scoop, surprisingly, has slightly more female than male readers.

    And yes, we're below the all-sites average for Maori readers.

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  • Hard News: Part of nearly all our lives,

    __evidence (that I don't have a link for, or even the document) suggests that they like to use Bebo.__

    you could put that down to "chain migration" onto an application. much like danah boyd's theory on hi/lo educational splits between facebook/myspace.

    Yes. She also noted that the Facebook migration -- largely by white, middle-class kids -- had the effect of underlining MySpace as the more African-American networking space.

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