Posts by Sacha
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Any doubts who's in charge, however, here's Mr Joyce wagging his finger at journos on Radio NZ Morning report (10 mins, listening options) for not toeing his teapot line.
“There are one or two people in the media that need to do a little bit of self-assessment this weekend and decide what it is they’re going to be talking about.”
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Paul Williams,
Content good. Execution..
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to merc,
Joyce is minister for broadcasting
That's Jonathan Coleman. Joyce is Communications (which is more about broader infrastructure).
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Condie Rice had an oil tanker..
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to linger,
If Labour had any oomph, they might be focussing on promoting their own policies.
Totally. Should have been doing that well for the last couple of years, but some good campaign messages. Greens seem to be connecting better.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Sacha,
And the end of that story makes really obvious that our current system amounts to a blank cheque. The checks and balances such as they are rely on a competent opposition and media motivated by sticking up for the public, not their own career prospects.
The National Government says it is seeking a mandate from the public for its asset sales programme at the election next weekend. But while National enjoys a huge lead over Labour in the polls, the polls also suggest a majority of the public oppose the plan.
Nevertheless, Mr English believed the public would be receptive or at least compliant towards further major economic reform in the next parliamentary term.
This teapot storm gives politicians and media another chance to show us what they're made of over the next week.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Paul Williams,
Next expect the question, “can National go into a coalition with NZF”?
If Labour had any oomph, they might have been running that line before now.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to merc,
English misrepresenting NZ's uninterrupted neoliberal economics - and their failure - also deserves a decent challenge.
"The important thing isn't so much the electoral system, the lesson of the past in New Zealand is that you have to take the public along because if you don't, they ... shoot you through the head and get the next guy in who undoes it all.
That stop-start cycle over the last 20 years has cost us dearly."
When Richardson and Shipley's savage benefit cuts have not been reversed by any subsequent governments, it's even harder to take the clown seriously. Same with Annette King exhorting us now to think of the children of the poor.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to linger,
or that getting tougher on crime means jails
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to linger,
How compliant are you feeling right now, New Zealand?
Better practised at grabbing our ankles.