Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Grant McDougall,
They need to present their message
yes
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Che Tibby,
what exactly “reimagining” means will cost you
spoken like a consultant :)
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
the entire New Testament is an unauthorised sequel
just imagine the copyright stoush
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Labour needs to focus on the hip pocket issues and put it across that the Nats have had three years to fix the snafu, but have managed nothing.
They really need to hammer home that aspect, not the BMW stuff.True. Any student of Karl Rove knows that attacking strengths means in this case the (unearned) reputation for sound economic management that Key and English might claim. They're actually piss-weak on that front and history won't be kind to them.
But (surprise) no one is coherently conveying the alternatives. The Greens had a fully worked out economic policy package soon after the election. Stuart Nash and Cunliffe have done some good posts on Red Alert teasing out some fiscal policy issues for Labour, so it's not like they're short of that in the background.
Starting to see intermittent signs of the opposition connecting that up with the day-to-day reality for New Zealanders - but then, so are the government. And their back office still seems stronger.
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IMO, Labour doesn't really need policy as such but to consistently convey in general terms what their party actually stands for between now and the election. Cunliffe has shown glimpses of that but it needs to come from all of them to look like a credible government in waiting. If they can't best the current pack of bozos then they really don't deserve to win.
I agree that leading with the same tired "John Key is a bad man" crap that lost them the 2008 election crowds out other angles and is plain stupid. Waiting until the last three months or reacting to other parties' timelines is also just poor strategy. Frankly they need to dump anyone who has supposedly been advising them on that or communications for the last few years.
The Opposition is broader than Labour too. Mana and others are likely to be rather messy but will get lots of attention, especailly as their positioning with the Maori Party is teased out. Likewise Winston knows how to play the media.
The Greens seem more coherent this term but with similar packaging/messaging problems to Labour. If only some of the folk like those who worked on the Auckland mayoral campaign could do their magic all round..
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Seems immature of some not to grasp how criticism can strengthen - and can be motivated by caring. And that is a sad thing.
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Isn't there a thread about all this somewhere?
I'm sure you've provided informed links already (maybe in the thread o doom, even)
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to recordari,
The 'single' used to be quite a big deal
I'm thinking when it was the only option, before recorded music business models changed mid last century. Mr Grigg no doubt has the references.
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Is this another sign of the death of the album?
Yes. Back to how things used to be..
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Govt announces changes to NZ on Air music funding.
Switches focus from albums to singles. Trivial increase in (ancient) subsidy for music video to $6k, with subsidy for recording of $4k per track. Total value $2m. Pffft.