Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
all you need to hear is that he has some, ok.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
we believe that the information was illegally obtained
Dialled back from the earlier emphatic pronouncements.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Joe Wylie,
peddling misleading nonsense on stilts, with no-one willing or able to effectively call him out
good summary of the problem.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Ianmac,
It baffles me that so many Government MPs are not fronting up to candidates meetings nor for interviews.
It's in their interests to stay silent. And no one is making them do otherwise.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Joe Wylie,
..as survey pegs
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Change the Government, Give Chch a Fair Shake
nice work
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We might ask who made the decision to raid the Herald on Sunday on the Monday after their only remaining publication date before voting?
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McCarten advises tactical voting for the left in certain electorates, and opens with this 'reasonable' expectation:
This column is strategic advice for centre-left voters only.
Right wing readers should obey John Key's edict on private political conversations. So please turn the page.
and ends thus:
Thankfully, the other side won't know what we are really up to, because no one can divulge this communication without you and me agreeing.
Well, that's what the Prime Minister says anyway.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't regard poll results as the determinant of right
Hooten on the other hand..
A fresh poll supports Key's decision to refuse permission to publish, with 44 per cent of people backing his stance. Thirty-three per cent of the 1200 people polled thought he should grant publication.
National Party insider Matthew Hooton said the public reaction showed the Herald on Sunday had made the right decision to keep the contents of the recording private without the permission of Banks or Key.
"The judgment was probably right. The Herald on Sunday did in fact decide the Prime Minister's right to privacy outweighed the importance of what was on the tape."
From the same Herald on Sunday story:
THE NEWSPAPER'S VIEW
The Herald on Sunday did not "bug" the Prime Minister. We did not know his conversation with John Banks had been recorded until a freelancer gave it to us afterwards. We assessed the tape as having a public interest and asked for the politicians' permission to print. They said no, so we didn't.
It is what we do every week with a mountain of information handed to the paper - is it interesting, is it legally and ethically permissible to print?
That's how the media should operate in a free society.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
I know we're not at Dimpost, but this is bad for Phil Goff.
I recall saying here some days ago when this thing first blew up that starving campaign oxygen was not in Labour's favour.