Posts by Russell Brown
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ADVISORY:
This week's Media 7 should be a goodie. We're discussing drugs and the news media with a panel comprised of Ross Bell of the NZ Drug Foundation; Police Association spokesman Greg O'Connor; and Nandor Tanczos.
If you'd like to join us tomorrow evening at The Classic in Queen St, hit "Reply" below the original blog post (or, if you're logged in, the little envelope under my name to the left of this message) and let me know asap.
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The Radio NZ interview with Hager is here.
I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm surprised that he's cited the childless-Clark stuff. I really don't think that's been in play at all.
The drumbeat has been "Clark/Labour is out of touch", backed up by a run of soft press opportunities emphasising Key's ordinary-chap credentials.
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And so we go on...yet another beat up by Nicky Hagar. Is it unusual again that Hagar trys to wow us with the 'secret' theme again.
As I noted, that the strategic advice is "secret" is hardly news. Strategic advice ain't much use when everyone knows it.
But this is a controversial firm. Do you think that when asked a straightforward question about whether the party and its leader have been using its services, National should just give a straightforward answer?
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Russell, I fear the dark arts are a feature of all political parties, even the organic Greens, to some extent.
Yes -- although the Aussie consultant they used in 2002 didn't do them much good at all in the end.
My hope is that come the actual election campaign, the rules of fairness, accuracy and balance will kick in and the electorate may just get some objective coverage to inform their decision?
The actual party of government will, rightly, always be held to a higher standard -- its decisions matter.
My guess is that, if National forms a government, the end of the honeymoon period may come as a bit of a shock. Clark went into government with a charmed press and still copped it soon enough -- I don't think anyone really feels that way about Key.
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Anyway, folks, here's some intercepted footage from a strategy meeting at Crosby/Textor
Excellent! I think you've gauged my tone better than Graeme did ...
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The two parties have more in common that they have differences
The sky will not fall
Indeed, it won't.
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Russell - evil? Seriously? On the day on which Robert Mugabe was 'elected' you're flinging that at a political consultant?
You may have mistaken my tone: I wasn't being entirely serious. But Crosby/Textor have been involved with some bad politics in their time.
Aren't you just playing their game of heightened rhetoric - making every election seem like the most important ever, a turning-point in national or international history?
Read the bit about keeping things in context. I actually don't really think any focus groups have been asked which political consultancy they most strongly associate with the word "evil". It was a joke.
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Not sure if this is the place to ask, but did anybody else notice the blatant dog whistling on 3 News last night?
That was Scott Campbell again.
In the same report he described the Treelord settlement as "a highly lucrative contract" and blathered on about Cullen being "the man with the chequebook".
For goodness sake, every government since 1984 has been more or less willing to resolve these grievances. To imply that they're election-year pork is just fatuous.
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Unimpressed with all sides' rhetoric over the smacking referendum, Craig Ranapia holds that the result of the Citizens' Initiated Referenda Act is "nothing more than opinion polls held at public expense" -- but without the rigour.
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People really do feel that Labour do not know what it is like to try and raise a family, drive a car and keep a their heads above water
I think this perception is the real problem for Labour
Well, I think that's precisely the perception the advisers have been seeking to propagate.
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