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simon g

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:56:02 +1200

Yes, nuanced is a fair description.

It's really an extension of the media mirror game, which is more evident now than ever before. The NZ media report on Ardern and/or NZ, and then they relay international reports on Ardern/NZ (often of dubious merit), and then they comment on the response…

linger

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:37:36 +1200

Sure, the headline is clickbait: but most headlines are, and they're often not written by the contributor, but slapped on by an editor afterwards. The body of Vance's opinion piece is more nuanced, and the main point is explicitly not any attack on Ardern, but a more general warning about…

Simon Armstrong

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:51:10 +1200

Note to self: nominate clickbait as word of the year. Isn’t it great / doesn’t it grate to see so many kiwi journalists master clickbait.

Sacha

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:33:58 +1200

Telling us more about herself than anyone else.

Russell Brown

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:02:34 +1200

Well bringing people together would be helped by not running Andrea Vance pieces like this:

My theory of the past month has been that we're all processing anxiety in different ways. This certainly isn't Andrea's best work. What's she doing here? telling everyone off?

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 11:42:40 +1200

Well bringing people together would be helped by not running Andrea Vance pieces like this:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/121247586/why-the-heroworship-of-jacinda-ardern-is-unhealthy

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I just wrote to the editors:

Folks
What is with this Andrea Vance piece
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/121247586/why-the-heroworship-of-jacinda-ardern-is-unhealthy
she starts with an alleged quote:
**"The Most Effective Leader on the Planet. Saint Jacinda, a leader for…

Public Address

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:41:04 +1200

Discussion from blog post.