Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to slarty,
good to see you back, by the way
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Phoebe Fletcher at Tumeke (unsurprisingly) believes the situation is bad for National.
The truth is whether we think politics should revolve around policy or personality, it is a gladiator sport for spectators. The last month is a battle for the public attention that provides opportunities for gaffes and also for wins. The increased media attention means that people are looking for a narrative that frames and carries the diverse announcements by bringing them together and providing a human interest angle. And National have provided it by creating a meme that backfired badly.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
But every time I talk to my Dad over the phone in Christchurch, he tells me it's like living in Muldoon World 2.0 down there.
Brownlee is perhaps a closer resemblance politically.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
None of which means the recording can confidently be said to be illegal.
Unless you're National's comms team, facing little challenge.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to merc,
Border crossed.
and like I say, the media and opposition's responses to that will tell us a lot about them.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to BenWilson,
they were able to rely on Anderton on the left of them in much the same way as National has relied on ACT
The comparison is perhaps more United Future.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
if there wasn't so much tape of their leader
Quite.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Sacha,
Russell has a new post about said finger-waggling and internal polling.
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while National's aggressive response may well serve its short-term interests with the public, it's storing up longer-term trouble with the press
The Herald's oft-sympathetic John Armstrong rounds on our glorious leader.
Has John Key completely lost the plot? The Prime Minister's statement yesterday that National's success in cutting the crime rate has given police spare time to pursue his complaint about the secret taping of his conversation with John Banks sounds astonishingly naive, but is also deeply disturbing.
It invokes the memory of another National leader from a different era - a leader National has long sought to consign to the history books.
It is unlikely that the spirit of Sir Robert Muldoon has taken hold of Key. But you have to wonder.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to merc,
That was discussed here at the time - and is a red herring now. The paperwork shows that Joyce actually recommended against the loan and was overruled by cabinet.