Posts by Lucy Telfar Barnard
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Dominic Muir,
Was there meant to be something after the colon?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
not as yet. The hard copy wasn’t even on Potton’s website yesterday but is now, although ‘out of stock’.
Thanks. I want to make some outraged comment about what millenium we’re in, or something, but my heart’s not in it.
But really, if they can’t distribute the book fast enough to keep up with demand, isn’t an ebook the really obvious solution? Would also make it accessible to people like my Dad, who’s overseas, and would probably buy an e-copy if he could get one, but will instead have to wait till he gets home at the end of September, at which point he’ll probably just borrow it from the library or a friend instead; or to people who don’t live anywhere near any independent bookstores and thus have to spring for postage as well as the already high price of the book itself.
There we go, my heart’s back in it: No ebook??? What Millenium are we in, people?!!
ETA: I withdraw and apologise. Just had a reply from Craig Potton Publishing saying an ebook will be available from Wheelers in 24-36 hours. Turns out we are in this millenium after all. Jolly good!
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Does anyone know if there's an ebook version available of Dirty Politics?
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I only caught the tail end of the interview with Farrar. The bit I heard I tend to agree with: journalists and bloggers do get tips from politicians, and presumably very regularly. But there's a difference between distributing tips to journalists, and telling a blogger what to OIA from the SIS - and then declassifying it for him so it can be released.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And you’re tone policing – cut it out.
I didn't read the "you're protesting too loud" as tone policing; I read it as a version of "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". R.S Surtees may be at least a hundred years out of fashion, but Shakespeare's never gone out of style.
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Hard News: Not doing justice, in reply to Ben Austin,
Of course, that's the other way of looking at it - it's not that it's happening more because of social media; it's just that social media means we're aware of more instances of it than just the ones we pass.
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Hard News: The silence of the public square, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
The lowest numbers of votes received in the 2011 election were for an Independent candidate in Wellington Central, and a Communist League candidate in Mt Roskill, each with 32 votes, but the Wellington Central candidate "wins" because there were more electorate votes cast there, so her 0.08% of the electorate vote is less than the 0.1% the Mt Roskill candidate got.
Based on the average number of electorate votes cast, you'd be looking at needing to get in the region of 1630 votes to get your deposit back. I think that would be unlikely without some actual campaigning of some sort. But if you can afford to pay $300 for the luxury of voting for someone whose opinions exactly match yours, it's an option! -
I think the reason there's more billboard defacement this election is that there's now a broader and permanent audience for it (the tumblr feed(s?) showing defaced billboards) than just the people who happened to pass by before it's replaced.
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How much does it cost to run as an independent? If you wanted to have someone to vote for, and didn't like any of the candidates, could you run as an independent without any aim of attracting other votes, and vote for yourself? Or would that be an expensive exercise?
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But by my reading of the Electoral Act, it shouldn't be "banned" anyway. All it should require is that when the song's finished the DJ should say "And that was Darren Jones PO Box 555 Auckland, with his new song 'Planet Key'", and that would satisfy the requirements of the Act, wouldn't it? He's presumably not paying the stations to play the music, so he's not incurring advertising expenses over $12,500, and he's an individual, so he doesn't have to be registered. What am I missing?