Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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OPINIONS DIFFER ON SHAPE OF EARTH
A Wellington man has claimed that the Earth is torus shaped, provoking sharp disagreement from scientists who point to the overwhelming evidence in favor of the spherical earth model. The man advancing the torus argument has no qualifications and could produce no evidence supporting his claims.
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I'd be genuinely interested to know if schools in New Zealand teach your version of journalism. That would explain a bit.
I think you'll find they do, because impartial, balanced and objective reporting is what journalism is, or at least what it is supposed to aspire to. There are many problems with modern journalism, but the fact that journalists (generally) don't act like bloggers and don't 'fisk' events, try to rewrite the news to flatter someone's value system or advance their own political preferences isn't something I'd like to see change - although things are (unfortunately) moving in this direction.
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No, I'd expect journalists to fisk politicians on either side, as impartially as they can, and for reporting in general to err on the side of scepticism for politicians' utterances.
You might expect journalists to do that but you're going to be perptually disappointed because that's not their job. There are plenty of columnists and analysts around performing that role - go read them.
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Which would make the job of the mainstream media to spread misinformation and spin. Thanks for playing The End of Civil Discourse.
I guess you'd prefer some variation on FOX News where there is no attempt at impartial coverage and the news is just editorial content.
As for media, if you take time to call one guy out when they go gaga you have to do everyone. And the next best option is not reporting it, which isn't much of a goer either.
Exactly. 'The media' can't decide they're not going to report the Finance Minister's statements about the economy, and if the statements are questionable then our whole political system is set up so that the opposition can critique them. We have a really terrible opposition, which is the real problem here.
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Exactly. Our mainstream media is becoming a disgrace. Why are these lying twats not being held to account for their misinformation and spin?
Because that's the job of the opposition?
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But Labour in opposition chose to play a negative role and try and stir up discontent.
Compact flourescent bulbs are burning down our houses!
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It's one thing to say something stupid and racist live on air. It's another thing to follow it up with a considered statement that is also stupid and racist.
It's only stupid if you don't think TVNZ has a deliberate strategy to use racial controversy as a marketing tool to generate publicity and increase ratings.
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My DHB voting system. I met a friend who is a health reporter, bought her coffee and gave her my voting papers and she filled in the DHB section. So I feel like I made a pretty informed vote. Not sure what the 99.9% of the population that aren't friends with a health reporter will do.
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The National, who still hold the #1 spot in my trophy cabinet for their Kings Arms show a couple of years back. First concert's already sold out in 30 minutes, but the second one's still available I think.
Also sold out. Fuck.
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If we're going to have a tax break for healthy foods, it would seem to make more sense to have it for all healthy foods of a certain standard, rather than just picking an aisle in the supermarket that most of them appear in, and then forgetting that we want people to eat healthy frozen foods, healthy meats, healthy breads, healthy snacks etc etc
You could have something equivalent to the National Heart Foundation's healthy choices tick, with some government body deciding what kind of food constitutes healthy, but that comes with a whole bunch of new nightmares: different governments stacking the board with toadies and then lobbyists from different industy sectors convincing them that, say, mutton chops, cream and butter are 'health foods'. I'm guessing that Labour contemplated that option and opted for simplicity instead.