Posts by Sacha
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Influencing opinion leaders is pretty standard stuff and I doubt any of those journos would be silly enough to have their heads turned by one study trip. The thing that got my attention was Young writing her story without acknowledging she was a subject of one of her source materials. But I believe that's a failure of ethics or perhaps just sloppiness, rather than some conspiracy. Please let's not go there again.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Steve Parks,
Wondered how long it would take for someone to link to that sad senile stream of concsiousness
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
e.g. at the supermarket
but Thordon doesn't count, right?
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to John Farrell,
We rank way ahead of the USA in education.
Don't worry, Tolley will fix that..
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
doesn’t mean anyone has done anything wrong
Sure, but it seems pretty basic to disclose to readers when you're mentioned in the source document your story is about. Potential *perception* of conflict of interest is enough in other circles, so why not here?
Original story still says nothing about that even though as you note they have added links to raw text of the 8 cables.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Steve Barnes,
sitting in a container in the bush in the Far North
Must be stifling. How's the place coming along?
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I thought Bruce's was a fair enough response. But then so was Giovanni's..
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News of the win attracts one sceptical response from the local twitterverse.
twatcock? @publicaddress has jumped the shark
And a twitter search shows it has already been hurled at Sarah Palin and Bob Jones.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Rofflenui, anyone?
Twitter encourages the shorter "roflnui" instead, for me. I checked its usage recently on another thread. And behold the similarly-limited spread of the other variant. Not that I'm biased :)
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s silly to suppose that someone like Audrey Young was “turned” courtesy of one trip to America.
But these things need to be declared.
Or she could write a story about the local cables without mentioning her own involvement at all. Ethics, eh?
Cables from the United States embassy in Wellington obtained by WikiLeaks show that Labour and National Governments agreed to US demands to secrecy around specific improvements in defence and intelligence relationship.
And they indicate concern that the Labour Government was slow at embracing a new defence relationship proposed in 2007.
But none of the cables leaked so far contain anything like the political embarrassment the release of Australian-related cables last week caused.