Comments on: Look! Over there!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:07:49 +0000

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.

By: jo zinny

jo zinny — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:28:08 +0000

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..

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:27:19 +0000

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!

By: jo zinny

jo zinny — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:11:14 +0000

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. Reaganâ€”fo’ reaganomics. Oh no, they canna have rogernomics the labour surrogateâ€”it’s gottabe reaganomics. See.

bottom line: john is a sort of national front for neo-reaganomics

By: jo zinny

jo zinny — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:56:22 +0000

Dylan,

John likes BO; Bill doesn’t. Simple, see!

Danny,

to explain how right your were with the “weird” word, let it be known how national’s conference this year had aussie dwellers cross the ditch to spell out the wonders of Reagan. That’s Ronald – the Wall – Reagan. President. B-movie star back before even kiwi Muldoon.. So.. yes, no longer bill and the nats, but reaganites, all.

bottom line: BO-philic John is a sort of national front for the neo-reaganites

By: Don

Don — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:31:06 +0000

Jeannie, O’Reilly doesn’t even own the Christchurch Press, so I’d be very surprised if he was selling it. Do try to get your facts right.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:11:34 +0000

LOL…..I swear Bill English is secretly working for a Labour victory.

The best news of the day? O’Reilly is selling the NZ Herald, Radio Network News, !ZB and half a dozen other radio stations, The Christchurch Press and all those little blue ribbon rags up and down the country. They have gone broke and belly up apparently to the tune of a billion or more in debts.

Whooo hoooo. Typical of National party supporters- wallowing in all the benefits but too stingy to put their hands in their pockets to support their own propaganda rags.

This should wipe the smirks from the pro-National lobby who hang about in here.

Got a slogan for this one boys? Envy? Tall poppy syndrome? Smear campaign? Dirty tricks? Nope none of these fit. How about, Herald Bankrupted by Labour victory?

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:10:16 +0000

LOL…..I swear Bill English is secretly working for a Labour victory.

Whooo hoooo. Typical of National party supporters- wallowing in all the benefits but too stingy to put their hands in their pockets to support their own propaganda rags.

This should wipe the smirks from the pro-National lobby who hang about in here.

Got a slogan for this one boys? Envy? Tall poppy syndrome? Smear campaign? Dirty tricks? Nope none of these fit. How about, Herald bankrupted by Labour victory?

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:48:17 +0000

Hey Irishbill, (and other standardistas) you missed a word in the opening line of the fourth paragraph I think.

Although Garner saw right it

I think you’d probably want this to be: “Although Garner saw right through it,”

IrishBill: thanks Ari, I’ve fixed that now.

By: Steve Withers

Steve Withers — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:30:57 +0000

All the reports I saw or heard mentioned National believed Labour was behind it and most quoted John Key and the dirty tricks comment. No evidence whatever was produced to support the contention with respect to Labour.

I doubt Labour had anything to do with it. It feels to me like someone had the bright idea to see what would happen if they went trolling at the National Party conference……..and – my goodness- look what they found: Shifty Nats saying one thing privately and another publicly

Like looking for bees in a bee hive.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:44:45 +0000

Hey, didn't John Key recently compare himself to Obama?

By: What!!

What!! — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:20:17 +0000

[lprent: Link-whoring from the puerile technical incompetent (people here will know of whom I speak) is something that I seldom allow.

In this case the pathetic little bugger is drawing inferences from what looks like self-referenced rumour, a photo, and a comment from 2003. Now that is really getting to be quite pathetic.

By that basis you could say that anyone is guilty by association. For instance having DPF in a bus with the puerile creep could lead to the inference that he also lies continuously (which I don't believe) . If he had a photo, well a photo of Whale with anyone probably indicates that they are also a sleazeball.

For instance in the post that you referred to, Whale is outright lying about the funding for this site - I pay for it, organise it, and have always done so. In my informed opinion he has made up or inflated every story about this site and the people associated with it since it started.As far as I'm concerned, if Whale says something, then you have to start looking for the lie in what he says. The guy is the grossest smear artist on the blogs.

But I have no doubt that in his mind, everything he says is the truth... Ummm there is a word for that.

BTW: There was no need to shift identities. I ban people regardless of what their handle at the time]

By: Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:12:00 +0000

randy- sorry a joke as I used the method myself c.9:06pm and then noticed you had used a similar technique in slicing the fish of the day.

got a cold and can’t drink coffee.

By: English: “…there still needs to be someone willing to pull the trigger.” « g.blog

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:04:01 +0000

[...] as Irish Bill has just said over at The Standard, “It was also interesting to see that Bill English refused an interview to explain [...]

By: bobo

bobo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:00:29 +0000

Fair enough I have noticed in the last few days more trolls commenting on here just trying to get a reaction.