http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-17/today-financial-journalism-suffered-epic-failure

The real hilarity in Audrey's article was this para:

Referring to Mr Little as "angry Andrew, Mr Key told reporters the public would not take Mr Little seriously while he was "just bashing out slogans" and not…

On that, where are the best places for most people to get their opinions when not the MSM, or at the very least reliable analysis towards helping them to form them?

My sis is a journalist and wrote this – I liked it :)
Visiting speaker Bryan Bruce knocked the stuffing out of neo-liberal economics in his Wanganui lecture on Saturday night.

I find it hard to get excited by the idea of that. Apart from being wishful thinking that might not eventuate, it's not that good of…

From watching that report I thought she made Andrew Little look like much more of a plonker than John Key. Right back to the introduction which set the stage by saying "it hasn't necessarily worked in his…

This is an illustration of Keith’s point that objective reporting is never objective. There is no such thing in not taking a position, because not taking a position is a position all of its own. Journalists like…

A deficit they created by their ridiculous tax cuts

to pretty much a surplus.

Which would be pretty much the truth, much like being mostly a virgin.

I asked her on Twitter and apparently she did ask Key for a response to Little’s claim – and the “Angry Andy” nonsense was the response. Sure, “PM refuses to respond to allegation that public was misled…

It was bizarre. It was like she'd read Kieth's post and thought he was promoting that kind of content free reporting.

It was mildly amusing…

She doesn't actually even put the main claim in Little's speech – that the government knew well before last year's election that a surplus was…

That may be true, and in itself does no harm. But increasingly the Prime Minister is the media replacement for the…

Very poignant indeed. Sadly, I've heard this argument, or inferences likewise, put up and reported so many times, we almost detach ourselves from the actual cruelty of the question.

This may be true sometimes, but I’m guessing that for as much of the time it’s not a case of not believing in…

Campbell Live retains the support of its…

When it's…

Danyl ponders whether that is a permanent state of affairs.

The Conservative Party’s strategy in the UK election was pretty much the same as National’s strategy last year. It’s because they have the same strategic advisers of…

Are you saying that's not the case here? I have great respect for what informed citizens decide. That requires, as you say, reliable…

Except it is pretty clear that elections are now won and lost on the media-driven perception of the…

NZ political journalism is suffering exactly the same sort of problems.

But we can't, perhaps even musn't, take responsibility away from the electorate for the government we get. You don't…

If you watch the TV news and read the daily newspapers then you'll see story after story that supports and enables the behaviour of this current government.

The few times…

In the case of designing a new flag for instance, international focus groups could be shown a range of…

That crown has been taken by HBO with Last Week Tonight. Born of Comedy Central, but goes much deeper into a single story each week.

+1

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Bugger.

and people wonder why she did so well on this last weekend's Q&A show.

Let commercial media run its Glucinas and Hoskings without any 'journalistic' pretensions (or protections, in my view). Use targetted public funding for the expensive, non-lucrative journalism that commercial media is…

Remember Corngate? Clark was so angry because she…

No it isn't. It's good job security.

Our PM actively excludes reporters who ask hard questions, so reporters are trained to never ask hard questions and never challenge the ignorant comment given. More…

If only we could vote one the journalists off every week.

Actually, to be honest, if we could then I'm not sure…

its not just the quote in and of itself – its the media news cycle that then runs from that quote

Just how often have we seen day one of a story as"…

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Got a link? Just one example would be fine.

It does remind me of the long, strange struggle to get the Herald to stop using false figures on TVNZ 7’s audience that were cited in the first…

Something else relevant to the discussion of John Key as pundit du jour:

It is part of the strategy of the Nats to make Key an everyday guy who you could have a beer with. By constantly asking his opinions of all and sundry current affairs,…

She did. Here’s her producer’s take on the matter.

I think it was the nation who had Bridges on at the weekend and they asked him if he was 100 percent behind the figures he was quoating, i think the interviwer knew…

Yesterday Radio NZ’s Todd Niall wrote a very measured column pointing out that the figures brandished by Simon Bridges and Nick Smith on council transport spending were entirely fictitious. Whether they were quoting the numbers maliciously…

In fact, I'm lecturing undergrad science students today and I use that interview as the best example I know of the politicization of science.

You have to remember that in the same way ministers ask patsy questions during PM's question time, Prime Minister Ponytail was being interviewed by Paul Henry. Do sycophantic interviews with pretend journalists really…

Water quality could be a better example.

"He’s one academic, and like lawyers, I can provide you with another one that will give you a counterview.", and all that. And anyone who wants to agree with that line of reasoning…

Actually, their practices are completely different, and lie largely on opposite sides of the line Keith draws in the post.

He doesn’t have a left wing equivalent and that’s the Left’s loss. Danyl McLachlan at the Dim Post…

Maybe, but if Helen Clark had a difference in this area it was that she could usually at least give the impression of knowing what she was talking about and…

Public policy isn't though.

Sure, engineers can work out the survivability in various forms of crashes at various speeds and conclude that if all vehicles are travelling slower, there'll be less deaths and at some speed like 40kph, deaths will tend to zero (for…

Guardian journalist Nick Davies spoke about media distortion and manipulation at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival last weekend. His main focus is the unfettered power of Murdoch's…

The impact of shows like Campbell Live is blunted because what they do and say is so…

Nevertheless, the problem of issues being buried in rentaquotes is hardly new: I once did an analysis of a story from 1990 (involving a case in which an Auckland homeowner…

I think this play was actually perfected by Helen Clark who was famous for always being available for a quote

Back in the day John Campbell and his team chased some of the Dirty Politics stuff…

Saying so on Twitter has led to a few journos blocking me, and others complaining that how dare the public hold them accountable to the standards…

For example, following the 10 road deaths this past…