Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
'the Fish'
just 'Fish'
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Kumara Republic,
he'll be Bishop next :)
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
What a large proportion of New Zealanders want, in other words, isn't 'fairness', it's a war against the weak.
Quite. We hate feeling guilty at allowing poverty so we kick the poor.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Creon Upton,
if political journalism can decide (as it clearly has) that its primary focus should be on the spectacle – ie, on analysis of political outcomes (Eg: How will the public read it? What will the impact be? What does this mean for Winston? etc), then it could just as easily decide that its focus should be on something less facile, eg, Are we getting satisfactory answers? What do these contradictions suggest? What are the possible explanations for the data as they appear to be?
The former takes less skill, resources and effort than the latter.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
intent
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Danyl suggests an enforceable ongoing audit of OIA responsiveness as one answer to Dirty Politics.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Of course, when you define “its job” in terms of “produced the particular outcome I would like to see happen”, then it hasn’t. But is that the correct definition?
Think I've been pretty clear I'm not talking about an electoral outcome. How would you define the role of journalism in a modern democracy?
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
We're talking here because traditional media isn't. The 4th estate has long been regarded as an arm of democracy. Good luck claiming ours has been doing its job.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
I assume you believe (as do I) that Dirty Politics really ought to have seen Collins immediately sacked, Rich shamed from her various roles, and a large voter swing to the left of politics.
The first two would be basic expectations in a functioning democracy (which journalists are meant to be part of).
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The question is why does the media feel the need to overstate the mandate in that way? What benefit is there for the media?
Legitimates them exaggerating that perspective? Less work than reflecting several of them.
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