Posts by Alfie
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Does anyone here take LF seriously? Just asking.
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Slater hasn’t appeared in court but his lawyer has. And what’s this?
His lawyer John Billington, QC, said the case was unique in New Zealand history.
“What we have, really for the first time in this country, is a person’s private information being taken illegally and in breach of the Crimes Act."
Is he wilfully ignoring Slater’s own alleged illegal entry into others’ electronic files? His alleged theft and illegal use of information from both Matt Blomfield and the Labour Party come to mind. Sheeesh!
[Edit: bold emphases are mine]
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to ,
Currently $86.5b and counting
How is that being kept so far away from public discourse?Personally I think Labour should be screaming it from the rooftops. That figure, even if it's only a close approximation, puts talk of surpluses and hints of tax cuts into perspective, doesn't it.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Keir Leslie,
But here's a guy who's apparently a creep, who writes misogynistic content for WhaleOil, and here he's being a misogynist with one of the guys who enables his public misogyny & is a horrific public misogynist himself. It's not a separate private thing, it's part of his public horribleness.
Agreed. Jordan's Mum must be real proud of him.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
I thought it was 10-odd to 60-odd billion.
Currently $86.5b and counting
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I'm a little confused by Slater's proposed injunction. He's listed the hacker, the Herald, TV3 and Fairfax -- but not RNZ or TVNZ. Does that mean those two organisations would be exempted from any injunction?
Having previously claimed (along with our ex-minister of injustice) that those Facebook conversations were "forged", Slater appears to be undermining his own credibility by conceding they are genuine.
Slater has filed papers claiming further exposure of information from his emails and social media accounts would inflict a huge personal toll.
Sorry. Did I suggest that Slater still has any credibility? My bad.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Hard to call us first world...
Gordon McLauchlan shares that sentiment in today's Herald.
The United States used to buy up small Central American countries and arrange for the locals to plant and harvest bananas on low wages before the fruit and the profits were shipped away. They were called, disparagingly, "banana republics". We are already a "pine log republic" and there is still a chance we will become a "milk powder republic".
Do I see people of integrity, far-sightedness and who are, yes, politically shrewd, available to take this country on to imaginative, independent policies through intelligent, flexible, long-term planning?
Yeah? Nah.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to tussock,
he's a nice self-made hard-working kindy-goofy guy who'd be a great mate to have and not at all a professional back-stabbing hyper-intelligent sociopath capable of long-game scams and deceits for the benefit of his very small monkeysphere.
Nice summary Tussock, but I've never considered Key to be "hyper-intelligent". Quite the opposite, in fact. Have I misjudged the man?
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Rob Coup,
Seems puzzling to me with magnitudes better technology, and excess journalists and TV/film techs that it's not relatively cheap to produce local content today? Journalist/tech teams of two, low cost gear, pitch in and do what needs doing.
You're correct Rob - the cost of news gathering is miniscule these days in the overall scheme of things. For this reason, both TVNZ and TV3 switched to one person crews back in the early 90s.
When all of our TV transmission moved to Auckland, the commercial value of airtime became the overriding currency which killed any meaningful local coverage. Since our state-funded broadcaster lost any pretence of acting in the public interest years ago, 'How much can we earn from commercials' became the main deciding factor when allocating time to programming. And that's unlikely to change any time soon.
[Gerard Smyth]: It does not seem to matter what the network, the stories by each were so often clones of each other – competing media were bussed together to the same events, all under the prescribed direction of governmental communication advisors.
When the Qantas/Aotearoa TV Awards were still operating I was proud to serve as a judge in some categories. In that role I must have watched dozens of earthquake stories -- mostly produced by well-meaning people but which, because of their sameness, were merely the clones Gerard mentions. Gerard's powerful and moving documentary When a City Falls stood out from the bunch because it was a genuine, from-the-heart film, told from someone on the inside. It was damned good filmmaking and it brought tears to my eyes.
Down here in the south we don't "hate" people from Auckland or Wellington -- but the people of Christchurch deserve more of a say in their city's future. I don't know anyone in Christchurch who is impressed by the Gerry-built city which is emerging from the dust. Some of the bigger players are getting richer from the rebuild... lots of people in the eastern suburbs are still living in third world conditions. Only the Campbell Show has singularly done a stirling job of keeping Canterbury stories in the public eye. For me, that is true public service broadcasting.
ASIDE TO SIMON LYALL
Your poorly conceived comment would be better received on Whaleshit or some other similarly redneck blog. I hope you've realised that it was neither appropriate nor necessary in this forum. -
Fairfax are reporting Key's suspicious prior knowledge of a "very big" advertising campaign scheduled to run in two weeks time, just before election day.
A Christchurch commercial real estate company has been dragged into political controversy after Prime Minister John Key used its plans for a big advertising campaign to score political points.
During The Press leaders debate on Tuesday, Key referred to an upcoming advertising supplement in The Press to rebut a question from editor Joanna Norris about progress on the rebuild stalling.
"Your newspaper, either this week or probably now next week, is going to deliver in the newspaper a very big supplement, that's going to sell I'm sure extremely well, which points out there are two hundred buildings in the CBD alone that are basically completed."
Key was referring to an advertising promotion by commercial real estate firm Colliers which is due to run in The Press before the election.
His knowledge of the advertising campaign has raised questions about whether it would advantage National in the lead up to the election.
Did someone say brethren?