Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Paul Williams,
talented and credible people.
I'm left wondering about the back room, not the faces out front
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Steve Barnes,
they don't vote because
.. it only encourages them
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to giovanni tiso,
the interplay is much more complex
Sure, and civics education would help. But implying the failure to engage is all down to the voters or media as Curran did doesn't leave much room for constructive action. And who wants to support whingers.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Nick Kearney,
That was in reply to this
Another cool function, Nick: if you highlight some text before you click Reply, it is automatically typed in quote tags for you.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Paul Williams,
And this is the deceit that will undo him.
Not if it is so ineptly personalised as it was in 2008. Hence the need for strong strategy and comms expertise.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Clint Fern,
I suspect your dream of a single party to help the Nats govern would be NZ First which might scupper the asset selloff.
Imagine the desperation of that being a plausible tactical voting possibility if the others don't get their shit together by election time.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
a politician has no time to think before they react
And yet other parties seem to manage their political messaging just like they always have done. I'm not convinced that the technology is overturning those fundamentals of political management. And social media is a way *around* the gatekeeping of traditional media channels.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Jan Farr,
Quite understandable though - just another result of the subtle leadership of the media.
Or because it was presented and managed in a forgettable way.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Russell Brown,
Trouble is, governments cannot be run like commercial radio stations.
Sadly I suspect we're seeing exactly that in the case of the interminable broadband backroom dealings Joyce has concocted since the election.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Russell Brown,
Part of successful politics is precisely acting on the basis of how things might be.
Bridging the vision and the now is a damn hard thing. Connecting dreams and realities. Yet political parties have been doing that for years, with the right skills and leadership. Has the ground really shifted in some fundamental way? In any case, it's the engine room I'd be worried about if I were Labour. Which I'm not.