Posts by Neil Morrison
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Libya is of course not exactly the same as Iraq but there are some similarities. US military intervention against a dictator being one.
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Pomme eating her apples. She was knowledgeable from the start. So the downfall happens not because of but despite knowledge.
I'm not convinced by the ending. But it's a very French condemnation of the bourgeoisie.
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Going back to my original point, I had noticed that it was the paraphrasing of what Key said that was being serially quoted to make various points but internet searching for what he actually said turned up nothing.
That I found interesting and it's not the first time I've noticed that.
One would think that it should be easier to find out what someone said than to find out what someone else said about what they said. But not so.
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I was wrong? I internet searched and could not find one direct transcript of what he said. I'm just describing what I found.
And I did say that the parahrasing was sort of accurate. But that it was being taken as an exact figure, not an estimate of a possible final total.
It was an observation.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Neil, how much more "reported" can something get than 'on the six o'clock news'?
I was going on the reportage in the print/internet media as quoted above that I searched which all paraphrased, as did the intro to that TV piece.
But I see it's become a tribal politics thing so I'll leave it alone.
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That's interesting. No-one reported what he actually said. The paraphrasing was sort of accurate but some have taken that to mean Key "said" 10,000 when he intended this to be an estimate of the final total.
Pays to find the actual source.
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He's reported as saying "up to" 10,000 houses in the context of saying that possibly some land may never be worth building on. Hardly a sin.
Although no news source gives his actual words. Seems we're left with speculation filling in a few gaps today.
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And to rub it in a little, after Campbell's interview with Helen Cark, what exactly is Campbell's claim to some sort of interest or credibility in matters of science?
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Russell Brown,
My guess is that it has been influenced by the emotional climate around the earthquake.
Maybe it's more that Campbell is just a jerk.
He chose to do the interview and fane outrage when he - discovered - he was talking to a fraud.
Cheap sensationalist tv which is what he does.
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...they did a much better job of efficiently allocating resources (that's Economistspeak for “helping people and getting shit done”) than the market ever could.
How is people freely choosing to allocate resources according to exchange criteria of their own choosing not a free market?