Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Ant Timpson,
lip readers
nice tweet along those lines yesterday from Bryony Hilless.
"Are they watching?" "Yes" "Do u know if I say colourful, lip readers will think I said I love you?" [insane giggling]
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I know it has probably been making its way around Bookface, but I love this image via the Listener's superb election blog. No idea who the author is.
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Gordon Campbell on the core matter of privacy (and media meekness).
Well, can the same venue be an arena for actions where maximum media exposure is being sought one moment, and then be reasonably expected to be totally exempt from media scrutiny the next – given that the participants are willing to invite the media pack to stand only a metre away behind glass, trying to put devices on the glass to pick up what’s being said, and photographing and filming the conversation in question? As Geddis suggests, can you reasonably invite the same conversation to be seen, but not heard?
In other words, ‘legality’ or ‘illegality’ is not an obvious black and white matter in this case. Geddis also raises an interesting point as to whether the clearing out of the media from the café was a legally enforceable demand. The media were asked to leave, but their almost total compliance seems to have been purely voluntary. If one person – either accidentally or on purpose – did not consent, it does seem questionable whether that divergence is a legally actionable matter.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Andrew Geddis on distraction:
And seeing as National's election strategy is not having to talk about the election, it's far better to have the discussion focused on whether the news media is acting properly than on, well, anything else really.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to merc,
you're thinking of National.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Russell Brown,
He possibly needs to get over himself.
That would be good. Again, when someone *makes* him.
Alex Tarrant and Audrey Young came close on the recent Sky/Prime show and you could see the cornered rat mask descend.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I suspect his party's and supporters' coffers are hardly bare.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to merc,
Key's framing of this as a dangerous precedent has resonated with some
Just like most of the NZ public apparently believe McCully's hands are clean on the RWC opening debacle. And Americans still believe Saddam is responsible for 9/11.
But Steven Joyce might wish to revisit some of his allegations.
Not unless someone *makes* him. Working exactly as intended.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Mitigate that risk by attempting to independently corroborate the material, so you can run the story without using the tape.
Pretty much what TV3 did with their coverage, knowing they weren't allowed to broadcast the recording.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Clint Fern,
ridiculous attempt by Key
by Joyce, to give credit where it's most likely due