Posts by Sacha
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Bennett is even more cynical. Helen Kelly has pointed out that the Minister was pushing those ludicrous myths herself on TV in June, to justify said taskforce.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to BenWilson,
There's no reason a levy like that could not be distributed through a vehicle like NZ on Air, but with less control being ceded to boadcasters/publishers - and a broader range of them across media types including print and online.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to BenWilson,
It's through DoubleClick, a Google subsidiary
Really? Maybe I'm wrong then.
Can we get a Russell in the house? -
Thank you, Catherine. From the select committee link:
The closing date for submissions is Friday, 2 October 2015
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Hard News: On youthful indiscretions, in reply to Rich Lock,
one of the notable things about this is that the entire population of the UK seems to have gone 'yep, that seems like something he'd do'.
beyond the UK too.
true or not, it fits the stereotype so well. #petard -
Smart local pundit Puddleglum continues the contextual analysis in comments at Te Standard:
Put bluntly, this was not a personal, private act or ‘failing’, quite the reverse – it was a highly political and deliberate act (including membership of the clubs in the first place).
To be compromised so early in life to one’s elite ‘peers’ is to ensure that you will maintain class discipline (above all else) throughout your life – and to have proved that that is exactly what you are committed to.
It’s like a gang member committing some ‘beyond the pale’ act in order to be accepted into the gang – crossing the personal Rubicon and allowing others to have access to damaging knowledge about you (not to mention having to face the fact that you’ve been willing to compromise to the group to that extent).
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So Ashcroft wrote at least part of his book in Auckland (see embedded tweet).
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Hard News: On youthful indiscretions, in reply to Russell Brown,
or as he concludes, their balls are in one another's hands. :)
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Rob Fahey reflects on the broader context:
The ritualised, sexually grotesque nature of Cameron’s initiation sets it apart somewhat, of course; but what’s also different about this kind of ritual in elite circles is the calculation behind it, the power and control it affords, and the self-perpetuating network of influence it creates. Consider this scenario; at elite institutions, those earmarked – by wealth, by title, by connections – for future leadership roles are forced, as impressionable young people, to carry out humiliating acts in order to gain acceptance by an in-group. That same in-group will, over the course of their lives, help advance their career massively in ways both overt and covert; membership of that group essentially secures their success in life. The cost of entry, paid by all members of the group, is participation in humiliating acts; acts which will forever wed them to the group, because should they later act in a way contrary to the group’s interests or desires, their “indiscretions” can be brought back to destroy their careers or personal lives.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And would I actually get the news I need rather than just the news I want?
quite - which goes back to the value of a 4th estate, amongst other things.
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