Posts by Myles Thomas
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Gp a - Brazil and Croatia
Gp b - Nederland and Spain
Cp c - Columbia and Côte d'Ivoire
Gp d - Uruguay and England
Gp e - France and equador
Gp f - Argentina and Bosnia
Gp g - Portugal and Germany
Gp h - Belgium and Korea
Brazil beat Spain
England beat Columbia
Nederlands beat Croatia
Uruguay beat Côte d'Ivoire
France beat Bosnia
Portugal beat Korea
Argentina beat equador
Belgium knock out Germany!
France beat Portugal
Brazil beat England
Argentina beat Belgium
Nederlands beat Uruguay
Brazil beat France
Nederlands beat Argentina
Argentina beat France for third
Brazil beat Nederlands and win.Ok so I'm following form and favourites but it's pretty much preordained.
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Polling has revealed National's chances of winning Epsom have risen sharply after viewers watching Q+A assumed the Bag of Flour WAS National's candidate. Many Epsom voters noted that the Bag of Flour made more sense, looked more confident and understood the issues better than ACT's David Seymour.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to nzlemming,
Yeah yeah. 30 odd years is a trend of non-military GGs. Strange to change back but not conclusive of anything, just unusual.
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Much is made of the appointment of a non-military person to head GCSB. Equally it is worth considering the appointment of a military person to GG.
I remember some uncertainty and intrigue in the news around who would replace Sir Anand prior to Key appointing Mataparae.
With the many able candidates to GG why appoint someone who's just been appointed to a very important role? And why the military man? That's unusual for GG who has been usually an ex-legal or politician.
This wouldn't be the only instance of the PM kowtowing to US bigwigs who just flew in. To town.
Another coincidence.
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I can imagine being in that jokey blokey setting with everyone being more outrageous than the next and it all being harmless fun. And if you sat back and DIDN'T join in you'd be the egg who no one trusts. Context is important obviously but possibly many people don't get the context because they've never mixed in those edgy circles.
People need to stop making uninformed unilateral judgements about each other.
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Roll on public service broadcasting.
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Suzanne's right. Channels take a surprising amount of notice of the telephone logs.
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Hard News: Poll Day 2: Queasy, in reply to The Ruminator,
"We all just think the media is anti-whicheverside-we’re-on"
You're probably right. I certainly do think Gower and many others are right leaning and then am blown away when I read on Kiwiblog claims that the Herald is left wing.
So how would you measure a reporter's and newspaper's left or right wing balance? Obviously the subject, who is interviewed and how shallow they treat it. But getting down to party level bias is harder to gauge. No?
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to andin,
Please refer to the research by Jack Vowles mentioned earlier about voters not bothering if they think the election is a foregone conclusion. And keep your pessimism to yourselves.
Last time EVERYONE said National would romp home, there was a massively low voter turnout and lo behold, National squeaked in. Don't trust the polls, they are proven to over estimate Nat numbers.
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"The great irony of the current broadcast TV environment is that the government has contrived a state where there’s not enough broadcast spectrum to allow it to meet its own policy commitments. Community television either can’t afford a full presence – which means paying Kordia for both terrestrial and satellite service – or literally cannot obtain spectrum on which to broadcast, as was the case for Triangle/Stratos in Auckland last year. The promise of plenty after digital switchover never came true..."
Apparently Cabinet are very soon to consider what to do with the masses of spare spectrum not used by Sky. Likely option is to sell it off to telcos meaning none for non commercial or new ventures.