Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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We need to start a new meme, Filthy John Key
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I'm frankly amazed that anyone with a functional brain thinks that (a) we have evidence that one side were doing this, and (b) we have no evidence that the other side weren't doing this, actually leads to the conclusion that (c) both sides are as bad as each other.
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shorter nats: yeah, we really are like that, but we don't care, and neither should you
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
the NZ media’s craven approach to this so far
No dissonance allowed in the Key of 7 Sharp.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to SHG,
Gotta say, "everybody does it", "he had no right to those emails", "it's all based on hacked data" is what I'd call corroborative and suggestive. YMMV.
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Party activists will do whatever they can get away with, and it has ever been so. But employees on the public purse are not paid party activists and should not get away with defending their behaviour by dismissing it as "everybody does it". Can't believe journalists don't see past this false equivalence.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Michael Meyers,
And how do you show that someone knows they are not authorised to view something.
Assuming there was supposed to be a question mark after that sentence, you quote what they said about it afterwards.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to William Leander,
All that is required is that the access was done 'knowing that he or she is not authorised'. This would include taking advantage of a poorly configured server to reveal documents that are clearly not meant to be publicly available.
Expect a retrospective law change immediately after the election...
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On balance of benefit, are they more often right than they’re wrong?
Ah, so that's the moral calculus that determines whether ministers stay in Cabinet.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Russell Brown,
I just think it’s deeply cynical of DPF and others to be screaming about racism and xenophobia at any mention of immigrant policy when they endorsed that policy and that speech.
Politics is the art of "creating reality". Just, y'know, not that real sort of reality.