Posts by Russell Brown
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It's okay everyone -- we can move on. John Key is officially over this whole Oravida thing:
But John Key thinks it is time to move on.
"I think we sort of dealt with those issues. The Labour Party's sort of down in the weeds going through various aspects of it.
"I don't think the Labour Party's ever going to move on, but I have moved on so I think that's useful."
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Hard News: The New New News, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Unlike Huffington, presumably Buzzfeed is paying its writers. So there’s that.
Yes, and paying them for actual skills and experience, rather than just their reckons.
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In The Guardian, Emily Bell makes the point that this new vanguard is still mostly white dudes (albeit, in Silver's case, out-gay geeky white dudes), but rather spoils it with this line:
It is as if Arianna Huffington never happened.
Ahem.
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An interesting Q&A with Buzzfeed's VP Jonathan Perelman, who'll be talking some more about Buzzfeed's plans at a conference next week:
Everything we have created we have done through the eyes of ‘will this be shared across the social web, and who will share it? Will it share better on Twitter, or Facebook or just the kind of content that somebody would email to somebody else?’
And so, we’ve never made content specifically for a platform, we make it for people, but with an understanding of why people will share it.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Given former master communicator Marinkovich’s past clubfooted attempt to tout the evils of P
God. I'd forgotten how spectacularly the Stellar Trust would routinely get it wrong.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
“I look forward to speaking to the Academy about our experience in building an accountable, transparent government and how these features benefit our governance system and economy.”
Transparency! Excellent! So there'll be no problem with telling us who paid for your dinner, minister?
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It seems other companies ship Green Valley milk to China, so Oravida might not be connected. Seems worth asking though.
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A new blog post by the Greens' Eugenie Sage finds milk and water, together again:
Judith Collins failed to recognise the conflict of interest in having dinner with a Chinese border official and the CEO and director of the Oravida company on which her husband is a director. An equally troubling conflict of interest is occurring in regional councils.
Water is a common property resource which regional councils manage on behalf of the Crown and all New Zealanders. The Resource Management Act (RMA) charges councils with maintaining and enhancing water quality and maintaining water quantity.
Under National regional councils, instead of being independent managers of water on behalf of a wide range of public values, are shelling out millions of dollars of Council funds to help promote and subsidise big new irrigation developments.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Richard Aston,
Is that enough to seriously toast Collins ?
Who will take it up , Labour or media ?I notice Winston Peters raised the issue of Oravida's Chinese Customs problem in the House today.
This would seem to have a way to go yet.
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Ah. Someone has responded to the question here about the purpose of Collins' October trip to China -- oddly enough, in a thread at The Standard.
Her October trip was to attend a conference on corruption.