Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Russell Brown,
Mike Hosking’s characterisation of the Internet-Mana launch is, as you might expect, a work of blithering idiocy from a man who wasn’t there and doesn’t care.
Maybe it's "attack a German day" or something. Fran O'Sullivan is nailing her colours to the mast in Can't win at politics with a cheque, mate - a shabby attack on Dotcom. Here's the opening paragraph.
It's ridiculous that the New Zealand political system can be gamed by an international businessman with criminal convictions who bought his way into this country via the Investor Plus scheme. That businessman subsequently avoided extradition attempts. Then bankrolled a new political party to the tune of $3 million to "take down John Key" and is now openly colluding with Julian Assange to drop a political bomb just five days out from the election.
It doesn't get any better after that. Very tacky!
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Judith Collins has put her foot in her mouth again. Last night she told a Radio NZ journalist
I have been cleared by the Privacy Commissioner...
But that wasn't the truth and this morning she's been forced to flip once again.
Under-pressure Justice Minister Judith Collins has had to backtrack this morning, after mistakenly saying the Privacy Commissioner had cleared her of wrong-doing in giving the details of a public servant to Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater.
But Privacy Commissioner John Edwards did no such thing, and suggested that he would investigate if the public servant in question, Internal Affairs official Simon Pleasants, laid a complaint.
RNZ has spoken with Simon Pleasants who is keeping his head down and will not lay a complaint. You can hardly blame him, given the abuse he has already suffered at the hands of the Nats' blacks ops brigade.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I been huffing oxygen.
Nice work Joe. ;-)
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Tinakori,
TV news of whatever ilk almost always go to events with the story mostly written. It is the job of the event or interviewee to fill in the blanks. It's usually too expensive to send crews out on spec.
I have to take issue with your comment Tinakori. Having worked in TV news for most of my life I can assure you that stories aren't written in advance. Crews are assigned to jobs because they're newsworthy. While a news editor might suggest a particular angle for the journo to follow, in almost every case the story is written after the material has been shot. To do otherwise would be an unethical PR exercise.
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Would this be the police who serve the NZ public, or the pleece who serve on Planet Key?
Would this be the pleece who serve on Planet Key, or the government spy agencies who serve on Planet Key?
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David Fisher in the Herald on his relationship with Slater - the point at which Key moved from "blocking" Slater to talking, texting and posing for photographs at his side, accusations that Fisher was "suffering withdrawal symptoms associated with alcohol and drug addiction" and the latest "Time for all your emails to come out Fish" threat from Slater.
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Hosking makes my skin crawl, I can't bring myself to listen to him.
+1 to that!
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Given the depths the participants in this sordid affair sunk to, I've been surprised at the lack of international coverage of Dirty Politics. I suppose that we're just a little island (or two) at the bottom of the world.
Today's Guardian has an overview from Toby Manhire fittingly called The whale that swallowed New Zealand's election campaign.
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Here's something to make you throw up over your cornflakes. In a John Drinnan story about paid placements masquerading as journalism, the Israeli Embassy in Wellington is quoted as saying that Slater is "fair-minded" and "spiritual".
Spiritual? Compared to what?
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In the first post-Hager poll, John Key's popularity has noticeably dropped.
John Key's popularity has dived by 8.5 points in the first political poll since Nicky Hager's book Dirty Politics was released, according to a Herald DigiPoll survey.
Mr Key is still well ahead of Labour Leader David Cunliffe but Mr Cunliffe has jumped by 4.1 points.
Mr Key is preferred Prime Minister by 64.8 per cent, compared with Mr Cunliffe on 14.6 per cent.
The figures do not necessarily reflect the party vote standings which will be released in tomorrow's Herald.