Posts by George Darroch
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Oh yeah, and Sullivan is always good. Real good.
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So, political junkies...
Without using Google, which presidential candidate was arrested this week?
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Also of interest: The Victory Lab. While this isn't quite as insightful as I'd hoped it would be (and the author's book is apparently good but not great), it's worth a read for a look into how the most polished and well resourced and researched campaigns in the world are trying to advance their politics.
Any other links of similar import about campaigning, particularly the science/'science' now applied, are gladly received.
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Also dissapointed to see Paddy Gower labelling the race a 'tossup'. Probably the horse-race mentality behind that.
I'm not disappointed. The New Zealand mass-media fairly consistently present politics through a horse race frame, rather than as a war in which individual battles, supply lines, troop morale, and many other factors make up an overall victory. Given that this is a contest in which criticisms of 'presidentialization' of politics are actually invalid, it's entirely unsurprising that they'd seek to maximize the dramatic potential of the contest, even if that comes at the expense of accuracy.
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The question of the ability of surveys to capture information, especially information which is as immeasurable as a secret ballot, is a fascinating one. A recent comment from a pollster on the Dim-Post put it into context locally. Having worked a few years ago as a telephone interviewer and now spending a great deal of my working time designing, implementing and analyzing surveys, it sounds quite right.
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it's knowledge
Knowledge, bro.
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Presumably the details that Ira disclosed in those conversations weren't specific enough.
What's likely is that the details were quite specific; if you're pointing out a bug or security hole you tend to do so. It's how people who work with computers work, in my experience.
What's even more likely is that those dealing with it had insufficient incentive in the form of either positive or negative consequences to do anything about it. The mere existence of a massive opening to tens of thousands of people's lives was not enough.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Martin Connelly,
Martin, Keith did not name him. Someone at some level of the Ministry named him. This post exists because once someone is in the public eye, they deserve a right of reply; thus Keith is speaking for him.
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This angers me. Ira is a kind and gentle man. This act of revenge - which is all it can be described as - is entirely undeserved.
Whoever released this obviously thought they could get away with it...
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Can I say that I dislike them both, passionately. I can't watch either without a deep feeling of sadness. Campbell Live may be the better of the two, but in tone, style, and substance, both lack acutely the measured and rational coverage I can take for granted when I'm watching Australian reality-based television.
You notice it. In conversation, people are shaped by the information they've consumed, and when talking to people in either country who consider themselves well informed, they take their agenda and discussion points from the previous week's current affairs television. Those tend to be much more limited in New Zealand, and those conversations then feed into the national psyche and how we understand ourselves and the country and world we live in.
Commercial television is worse in Australia, but the elites and public television watching public are informed. The problem exists where that gap becomes a gulf, and it plays out frequently in the contorted behaviour of their current government. I'll shut up now, before I become the annoying expat.
On a much more positive note, MSF Australia have just launched a TV station. It's an incredibly interesting experiment, and so far the results are rewarding.
http://www.msf.tv/