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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If the speaker is biased in his/her rulings and also incompetent then surely there must be a mechanism to remove him or her.
The Governor-General? The Ombudsman (when she's not too overloaded)?
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Those women are so brave and must be so angry. Photo here of them in the foyer together following their walk out or ejections. Interestingly, the article is by one of the press gallery women who is usually very supportive of the PM
On that note, bias among political journos is quite normal. What’s not so normal is when political journos deliberately repackage their partisanism as impartiality - which effectively makes it a case of journalistic entryism and a cynical shifting of the Overton window.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to Questioner,
If Auckland is becoming a city based around public transport nodes why is the Unitary Plan releasing so much rural land for urbanisation on the edge of the city?
I suspect in large part because of pressure from Krum, Quax, Brewer et al. Before then, the Unitary Plan had bigger plans for ‘Manhattanisation’. Can't have any potential pins to the housing bubble, eh?
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Sacha,
However, Kelvin Davis is showing how to keep playing the character line. Will his colleagues follow suit or get sucked into the hand-wringing that Nat strategists are hoping for?
The least they can do is ask: will the real John Key please stand up?
Then: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/286714/key-to-ask-australian-pm-to-release-nzers
Now: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/289358/pm-stands-by-'rapists'-comments
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It does seem to me that that line in particular is a breach of the broadcasting standards.
That in addition to the blatantly deceptive reporting of the numbers is well outside the standards.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to BenWilson,
Housing has fallen into the too hard basket. There is no political will in this country to do a damned thing about affordability anywhere, let alone in Auckland. It’s pretty much out of control. I’m not surprised, because it’s got so bad that no half measures are going to have any effect. But we are at least in control of smaller things.
I've said it before, but it's gotten to the point where the only thing guaranteed to fix it isn't a political solution, but an act of Murphy's Law. Namely a spherical globe filled with air and a loud popping sound.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Russell Brown,
And people sometimes wonder why the Twittersphere runs on raw anger right now. It’s an outlet for people to let off as much steam as they like, in the absence of a proper platform to hold the powerful to account.
It’s normal for political journos to be biased to one degree or another, but there’s something abnormal about repackaging such bias as impartiality. In Britain, for all the underhanded news-gathering methods used, the political colours of journos are at least clearer to readers.
The way things are going, NZ needs Justices Leveson, Finkelstein and Fitzgerald on the same Royal Commission.
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Then again, there are only so many dead cats that can be thrown before hitting diminishing returns. It didn't seem to work for Stephen Harper's final term as Canadian PM. And some issues, like the Chernobyl meltdown or the Great Depression, are inherently too big to throw a dead cat around.
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Speaker: The real balance sheet, in reply to Alfie,
One wonders what Mediaworks’ owners Oaktree Capital Management must think of this fiasco. After all, Weldon was brought in to return TV3 to profit in preparation for its eventual sale. Destroying the company’s credibility and trashing its ratings would seem to be at odds with this goal.
If MediaWorks goes under for good this time, would Weldon and Christie go cap in hand to Prostetnic Vogon Joyce, who has past connections with the company? I can easily see the loss-making TV3 being sold for scrap and split off from the still-profitable radio division.
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Speaker: The real balance sheet, in reply to simon g,
Without scrutiny, what do those in authority do? It’s a rhetorical question, the answer is there in any history book.
Jeremy Scahill put it best: "know what's worse than government propaganda from state-owned media? Government propaganda from non-state-owned media."