Written By: - Date published: 7:53 pm, November 4th, 2008 - 39 comments
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The latest secret tape has come out and it’s a classic example of the face of the National Party that John Key doesn’t want you to see. Pro-war and anti-Obama.
National’s response? The classic “dirty tricks” misdirection. This is all about Labour apparently. Not that there’s any proof however. And not that it’s even likely to be Labour given how badly they usually handle this sort of thing.
I was pleased to see Duncan Garner didn’t fall for that misdirection and that he referred to it as a “line”. It was also interesting to see that Bill English refused an interview to explain himself (well not until the C|T crisis team make yet another flight across the ditch, I suspect).
Although Garner saw right through it I’ll be interested to see how other media react to National’s hackneyed “dirty tricks” line. Obviously Mike Williams’ cock-up won’t help but at the very least I would expect some kind of proof of Labour’s involvement in this to be provided by National before it’s accepted as gospel.
While they are at it they might be keen to ask for an explanation of the phrase “window dressing” in relation to the Iraq war. Because from here it seems National’s only answer to anything bad is to dress it up in spin and sell it to the “punters”? That’s certainly what they are trying to do with this.
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Dylan,
John likes BO: Bill doesn’t. Simple. See!
Danny, lovely word “weird”. Explained yet again I think at the national’s conf this year when aussie dwellers crossed the ditch to tellem and spellem Reagan rubes. That’s Ronald Reagan, President, B-movie star way back and even before kiwi muldoon. Reagan—fo’ reaganomics. Oh no, they canna have rogernomics the labour surrogate—it’s gottabe reaganomics. See.
bottom line: john is a sort of national front for neo-reaganomics
Don: You are right. The following is a list of O’Reilly owned news media in NZ from Wikipedia.
The New Zealand Herald
Herald on Sunday
New Zealand Listener
Whangarei Northern Advocate
Rotorua Daily Post
Wairarapa Times-Age
Wanganui Chronicle
Oamaru Mail
Bay of Plenty area
Bay of Plenty Times
Bay News
Katikati Advertiser
Coastal News
Waihi Leader
Te Puke Times
TV Times
Country News
Christchurch area
The Star Canterbury
The Star Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Community
North Canterbury News
Canterbury Times
APN Business Information Group
APN Education New Zealand
APN Digital Media
Australian Classifieds
Campus Review
Nursing Review
UBD
finda
Wises Maps
Sella
APN Data Online
Radio Network News (New Zealand)
Newstalk ZB
Classic Hits
Radio Sport
Hauraki
ZM
Viva
Coast
Flava
Radio Network News also has newswires to TVNZ and Yahoo Xtra.
Thanks Don!
oops! sorry about the double-up above..
the first one disappeared when I went through capcha, all I got was a copy of the encryption code, but no comment to look at. Figuring it had ethered I tried a repeat.. AND GOT ONE..
Jeannie: “The following is a list of O’Reilly owned news media in NZ from Wikipedia.”
This election no matter which way it goes is a victory for Tony O’Reilly undemocratically influencing our elections via the mainstream media.
I looked INM ( Independent News Media ) up on Wikipedia. which says”
Concern has also been expressed about INM’s dominant role in the Irish press sector, its overall media power, its influence on politics, and the quality of its journalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_News_&_Media
We can safely say, O’reilly has also been dominant in the NZ press sector, we are concerned about his overall media power in NZ, his undemocratic influence on politics in NZ and the poor quality of his journalism.
Yelllowpack is how his journalism is referred to in this article. Yellowpack refers, according to a type of cheap budget packaging in the UK.