Posts by Alfie
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
You think Anthony Hubbard is part of a pro-government PR campaign???
I don't know the guy from Adam so I wouldn't say that Matthew. I am saying that his rhetoric struggles to qualify as journalism.
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Here's another example from today's Sunday Star Times -- a piece entitled "Get rid of our embarrassing relic of a flag" from someone called Anthony Hubbard.
Labour has shown that when it comes to the flag they are an odious bunch of hypocritical cowards.
Does this count as journalism? Seriously?
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
It looks suspiciously like an almost coordinated pro-government PR blitz. Tell me it aint so.
It's hard to view it any other way Tom. While we expect patsies like Hosking & Henry and the usual Nat fanboys to promote the PM's preferred choice of flag, a whole pile of b-grade celebs have been wheeled out recently to push the party line. With polling running at around 70/30 in favour of no change, it's a bit like watching the dying days of the Jeb Bush campaign.
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Hard News: What you lookin' at?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
We also eat babies and shout at people in wheelchairs.
And for ten points, we eat babies in wheelchairs. ;-)
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not online yet so far as I can see...
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Oaktree Capital have thrown another $10m at Mediaworks.
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AUT journalism lecturer Greg Treadwell has started a Givealittle campaign to raise the $38k necessary for Bradley Ambrose to file a defamation claim. He explains his motivation on the Spinoff.
In an interview with Toby Manhire Ambrose confesses that until the teapot debacle, he'd always voted National and thought Key was a good prime minister. I suspect Key's disproportionate and ill-advised abuse of power may have changed his mind.
Here's the Givealittle page.
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Toby Manhire sums up the shemozzle of the flag process so far in one single, very long sentence.
And, apart from the failure to put a designer on the consideration panel, the near-empty rooms at public consultations, the mockery from international media, the decision not to listen to public views after the longlist of 40 was published, the release of a shortlist with three out of the four dominated by a fern and two of them almost identical, the law change to introduce a fifth contender, the flying of the wrong alternative flag on the harbour bridge, the accusations of distraction and legacy fixation, the interminable demands that the $26 million budget might have been better spent on this or that, the swivel-eyed conspiracy theories and moronic Facebook memes, the objectionable attacks on public figures who express a view, the point-scoring, the politicising, the claims of politicising that really just amounted themselves to politicising, the general bickering, peevishness and name-calling - apart from that, it's all gone swimmingly.
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to linger,
Regarding TPPA and climate change, would the decisions have been worse?
Good point linger… probably not. But at least we can’t blame kids’ immaturity and lack of vision for the poor decisions being made on our behalf in both cases.
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Progress in the UK with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (Leap) calling for a new approach to the war on drugs with the emphasis on harm minimisation rather than enforcement.
Former and serving police officers and officials from Britain, Europe and the US have told politicians in Westminster that the “war on drugs” is lost and they must take the trade out of the hands of organised crime.
They called for an evidence-based approach to drug use in the UK that seeks to not only minimise harm but also allow for the potential benefits that certain illegal drugs can have.
In related local news, Martin Crowe was self-medicating with cannabis oil in preference to undergoing continued chemotherapy.