Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Paul Williams,
I thought it classy but there you go.
So did I – pretty sad seeing Muldoon and Lange after their return to the backbenches. And let’s face it you’re not going to do your best “screw you guys, I’m going home” Cartman during a campaign. But sauce, goose, gander and all that. :)
And that makes me very angry at Key; it is almost Berlusconesque in its mendacity.
OK, can I propose adding Berlusconi to Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mugabe on the list of automatic failwhale comparisons to anyone in New Zealand politics?
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Idiot Savant,
The travesty isn’t split voting, the travesty is soliciting votes for a party which you intend to radically change after people have voted for it.
Oh, you mean (maybe) discussing the probability of a man who has epically failed to meet his own 15% benchmark being rolled? FFS, it would be more shocking if it didn’t come up after months of speculation that just increased with every polling cycle. Please call it feckless, dishonourable or all the synonyms for “generally prickish” you like. But “an affront to democracy”? I know folks around here hate Banks even more than Key, but we’re really scraping the bottom of the hyperbole barrel.
If you really want to go there, three years ago was Helen Clark a fraudulent scumbag when on Election Night she not only resigned the Labour leadership but announced she would leave Parliament? Something, by the way, she’d repeatedly denied even considering during the campaign.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m genuinely angry about this.
And I'm not pleased either, but I'm pretty good at being pissed off by more than one thing at a time.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to 3410,
Because that’s making a travesty of democracy.
That's actually complete self-serving bullshit. I'm going to go vote tomorrow, and probably split my vote. Key is as entitled to solicit "strategic voting" as anyone else (and they do), but what I do tomorrow is not a "travesty of democracy" but "exercising my democratic right, without giving a flying fuck what anyone else thinks about it".
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Kracklite,
All true, but democracy is messy and often good is done by accident.
Well, that's nice - media outlets don't make their editorial judgements by accident. That's not some airy-fairy abstraction but a simple reality I'm frankly sick of repeating. And I'm sure everyone else is sick of listening to me do so, so I'm out for the evening.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to PaulC,
It's an interesting question though: Would FDR's adultery and Churchill's heavy drinking and severe depressive episodes make them both unelectable today? And would the world have been a better place if the media then was more like it is now?
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Sacha,
Someone just tweeted that 3 news had a different conclusion too.
Been fascinating flicking back and forth watching One News and Three putting radically different editorial top spin on damn-near identical polls.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Russell Brown,
Thing to watch for tomorrow is Bradley Ambrose going for his declaratory judgement that the conversation was not private under the law. That would sink the whole thing.
Golly, you mean Bradley Ambrose exercising his right to seek recourse under law? Scandalous!
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to PaulC,
who cares what’s in the detail if you need to question the veracity of the salesman, and our pm is in real trouble in this context
Really? Some people would consider adultery a mark of bad character, and if had come out in the 1928 New York gubernatorial campaign that the Democratic candidate’s wife had offered to divorce him so he could live with his mistress American political history would have been very different.
The man’s name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the way. I think history would consider the details of the policies he enacted a little more important than his appalling treatment of his wife.
To quote a wonderful line from The West Wing, voters get to decide the yardstick they use to measure candidates - and "character" is one of them. I'm just suggesting that media outlets also need to be asked a few hard questions about the news judgement being shown.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Kracklite,
but no news editor in any medium could resist the terrific drama of such an event.
It would be nice if they tried, just a little. As I said on the other thread, the trade and youth policies released yesterday (by National & Labour respectively) may have been a big yawn to Russell. They certainly weren’t considered worth any airtime on Morning Report (allegedly a flagship morning news program on a public broadcaster) today.
They weren’t “sexy” or “drama”, but they just might have a real impact on people's lives. Whatever the fuck Winston was chuntering on about - none at all.
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