Posts by Juha Saarinen
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OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to Keith Ng,
And I never said you were a journalist. *BOOM*
I know. Have never quoted the ACR, see...
On a more serious note, your post is a very good example of something that gets on my bröstvårtor regularly. Unfortunately, the tobacco stuff is just one example though. Having followed the intellectual property, "free trade" and copyright circus for a while now, I've seen lots of made up "facts and figures" not just become part of stories but also ended up as accepted, trusted facts that laws are based upon.
Media is meant to hold the rich and powerful to account but since there's absolutely no sanctions against lying and hiding the truth, no matter how damaging such actions may be, it just doesn't work very well.
The ratio of PR people to journalists is three, maybe four to one currently. Leaving aside that they're better paid and equipped, PR people may say that lying doesn't work but at the same time, they're under no obligation to tell the truth.
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Give up, Keith. Now. It's about Content, which is apparently king. As long as you produce Content, all is well in this world and you make up stuff like the Auckland wharfies earning $91,000 a year while working 26 hour weeks, and therefore deserve to be fired at a cost to Aucklanders of around $24 million. Or something like that. What do I know? And, I'm not your friend.
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Keith. You are a drain brain.
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Well put. This is getting completely out of hand.
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That reminds me of... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McCann_Erickson_Truth_Well_Told.gif
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I want Lemmy to replace Bradbury.
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Hard News: Auckland, so much enormity to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Pshaw! What next? -ize instead of -ise?
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Speaker: The great New Zealand phone…, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Fixed now...
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