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Steve Barnes

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:14:30 +1200

Michele Hewitson interviews Alastair Thompson in the Herald.

I worry about Alastair, why Hewitson? I have always thought of her style of writing as akin to someone writing a parish pamphlet, with emphasis on how well she understands the Vicar, a Hyacinth Bouquet if you will.
I wonder if John…

Alfie

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 15:36:58 +1200

Michele Hewitson interviews Alastair Thompson in the Herald.

Kevin McCready

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:17:03 +1200

"The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing" John Stuart Mill 1829

Kevin McCready

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:15:31 +1200

Thanks AT.

So I go to Gordon Campbell's latest article (re Donald Trump).
http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2015/08/19/gordon-campbell-on-donald-trump-and-dr-dre/

1. The webpage doesn't remember who I am.
2. There is no button to logon.
3. I laboriously enter my details, again.
4. The little boxes for details are too small to see the details I…

Alastair Thompson

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:56:59 +1200

Hi Kevin,

RB has no shares in Scoop any longer.

He once did have some, but in December the company was taken by its major creditor, my mother. In September she will be settling it in a trust and it will effectively at that point be owned by everybody.

I…

Kevin McCready

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:44:17 +1200

AT, I want to say this kindly and to thank you for your efforts in NZ Media, but think you need to step away. Whoever takes over from you would do well to have a very close look at crikey.com.au including their twitter account @crikey_news . All I can say…

Mark Graham

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:08:07 +1200

Being a publisher is a bugger. FB and Google are parasitical in their approach – they rely on publishers (Google more than FB but that's changing) to supply content but siphon off badly needed revenue. That model ultimately ends up with the parasite killing its 'host'.

I wonder what the…

Alastair Thompson

Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:05:35 +1200

Hi Izogi,

They are not being asked to buy our analysis so much as pay a licence fee to read us for work purposes. In the case of other news organistations ultimately organisations need to consider whether they want their staff to have access to reading news (and perhaps in…

izogi

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:29:08 +1200

If other news organisations follow in Scoop's footsteps with this then they will need to provide the kind of news which businesses and government agencies need to do their work. I.E. the kind of news which we used to have before things started to turn so badly wrong.

Thanks. Do…

Alastair Thompson

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:02:56 +1200

To provide quality timely analysis news organisations need to be staffed by experienced knowledgeable journalists who have the background and knowledge to provide context to the latest development.

In journalism – like any profession – it takes time to learn the skills. I think it probably took me four or…

izogi

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:28:38 +1200

In contrast, when you read something in a news article written by a journalist there’s a transformation process involved. Facts and assertions are interpreted, supplemented, checked, and sometimes critiqued. This is also useful, but in a different way.

I hope Scoop’s new model succeeds because it seems useful and I…

kevinM

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:37:04 +1200

There's a wonderful discussion on this problem here: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

Paul Campbell

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:41:12 +1200

"Truth" ... of that truth .... you had me worried there for a minute, thought you'd taken one of Slater's hand-me-downs

Public Address

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:41:12 +1200

Discussion from blog post.