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Revenge, name suppression and celebrity justice

ethicalmartini wrote 1 day ago: The Whaleoil saga [background here and here] has led me to consider why the issue of name suppressio … more →

Tags: Backlash, facebook, folk devils, forensic pornography, Freedom of Speech, Journalism ethics, journalism in the age of youtube, media and democracy, Media ethics

Whale-watching update: No "shit storm" on horizon3 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 2 days ago: Here’s a round-up of some blogosphere commentary on the Whaleoil (Cameron Slater) story. [If y … more →

Tags: First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, journalism in the age of youtube, journalism in the digital age, laws against journalism, lunar right, media and democracy, New Zealand Media, suppression orders

Quotation for Today, Tuesday 5 January

adamsmith1922 wrote 3 days ago: “Until police charged me my traffic would have been lower than a provincial newspaper on a Sun … more →

Tags: Quotations

Whale(b)oil Slater hooked?2 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 3 days ago: I have no beef with Whaleoil, but I am interested in his ongoing court case. Blogger Cameron Slater … more →

Tags: Blogger Ethics, Blogging, Blogosphere, bourgeois justice, Celebrities, Whores and Losers, celerity gossip, Civil Liberties, Crime and Deviance, Digital Dilemmas

A dog of an idea

homepaddock wrote 4 weeks ago: In a list of Labour’s spending excesses, Duncan Garner writes: Michael Cullen spent twice what … more →

Tags: Politics, Labour, Michael Cullen, University of Otago, Duncan Garner, kiwirail, Joanne Black

Against the natural order

homepaddock wrote 1 month ago: The death of an elderly person, while sad, is part of the natural order of life. We’re born, w … more →

Tags: Life - Death, Good People, kiwiblog, Annie Fox, Oswald Bastable, NOT PC!, M&M, Anna Woolf

NZ a square peg in round ETS hole13 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 month ago: New Zealand’s problem is that we’re different. Primary production and industries based o … more →

Tags: Politics, Environment, farming, Poneke, No Minister, ian wishart, emissions trading scheme, nz conservative, Kyoto Protocol

Did you see the one about . . .

homepaddock wrote 1 month ago: Oh the things I learn . . . BK Drinkwater disproves the wisdom of crowds. Florence Nightingale was a … more →

Tags: blogs, Cactus Kate, Visible Hand in Economics, BK Drinkwater, SciBlogs, Grant Jacobs, Alison Campbell, take part, Southern Squall

This is how to say sorry4 comments

homepaddock wrote 3 months ago: The Bomber who had been hired by a PR company to film people unhappy with Labtests was the same Bomb … more →

Tags: Politics, blogs, Cactus Kate, TUMEKE, bomber, Labtests

True Fame

adamsmith1922 wrote 4 months ago: Dominion Post - 8 September … more →

Tags: media, Blogging, Social commentary, No Right Turn, Bloggers, Public Address

Shortest blog partnership in history4 comments

homepaddock wrote 4 months ago: Cactus Kate has seen the light. She’s pulled out of Gotcha, probably making it the shortest bl … more →

Tags: blogs, Cactus Kate, No Minister, PM of NZ, Gotcha

The Guardsmen, Adolf and WhaleOil

adamsmith1922 wrote 4 months ago: Adam has been re-reading an interesting history book. The book titled ‘The Guardsmen’ co … more →

Tags: free speech, Blogging, leadership, Harold Macmillan, Barnsley Bill, No Minister, Adolf Fiinkenstein, Harry Crookshank, Oliver Lyttleton

It is an odd day when...

JakeQuinn wrote 5 months ago: National Party blogger Cameron Slater nee Whaleoil calls for Deputy Prime Minister Bill English to r … more →

Tags: NZ Politics, Bill English, Dim Post, Housing allowances, Tory friends

Shame2 comments

homepaddock wrote 5 months ago: Former MP and Minister outside cabinet Phillip Field has been found guilty  of 26 charges. Field, fo … more →

Tags: Politics, Crime, kiwiblog, Helen Clark, No Minister, Keeping Stock, Fairfacts Media, Oswald Bastable, MacDoctor

Media:but not as it was1 comment

petermsalmon wrote 5 months ago: Recently I have been commenting on changes underway in the media, especially with regard to the disr … more →

Tags: Commentary, Miscellany, Internet, technology, change, LinkedIn, media, Business models, Cactus Kate

On buying council seats for Maori

adamsmith1922 wrote 5 months ago: The other day the NZ Herald reported that Tainui had made a submission to the Parliamentary Select C … more →

Tags: 21st Century, governance, Life, Maori, media, Social commentary, "buying influence", Elizabeth Rata, Maori seats

Full marks Mr Speaker - updated3 comments

homepaddock wrote 6 months ago: One of the reasons MPs aren’t held in very high regard is the low standards of behaviour and l … more →

Tags: Politics, Keeping Stock, MPs, Trevor Mallard, Lockwood Smith

Whose money is it anyway?5 comments

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: I won’t be quite as blunt as Whaleoil nor as comprehensive in my critique as Kiwiblog. But the … more →

Tags: Politics, kiwiblog, State funding

When does politics affect ability to do job?4 comments

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: Can someone with strong political views work in a position where s/he’s required to help MPs w … more →

Tags: Politics, Employment, John Key, Madeleine Setchell


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