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Sean Plunket resigns from Broadcasting Standards Authority
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, October 14th, 2017 - 44 comments
Anyone feeling for Sean Plunket?
Anatomy of a plonker
Written By: - Date published: 6:39 am, October 12th, 2017 - 30 comments
“Anyone else feeling for Harvey Weinstein?” – Sean Plunket
Electoral Commission refers Sean Plunket’s tweets to the police
Written By: - Date published: 2:14 pm, October 3rd, 2017 - 19 comments
The Opportunities Party’s election campaign Communications Director and recent appointee to the Broadcasting Standards Authority has had their election day tweets referred to the police.
National does u turn on paid parental leave
Written By: - Date published: 12:16 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
National has announced a policy of increasing paid parental leave after complaining last year that it was unaffordable.
Bill English’s texts leaked
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, August 9th, 2017 - 21 comments
Some of Bill English’s texts have been released. And they are not what you might expect.
Breaking: calls for Paddy Gower’s resignation as MSM slips in its own bullshit
Written By: - Date published: 7:05 am, August 9th, 2017 - 24 comments
Last night all the excitement finally caught up with them, leading to calls for Paddy Gower to resign and for MSM organisations to delete their social media accounts.
Lefties on fire
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, July 17th, 2017 - 95 comments
The best of twitter from the weekend.
The left bites back
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, June 25th, 2017 - 18 comments
A little bit of feel good for a Sunday morning (plus a very clever cat!).
Barclay/English cartooned
Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, June 22nd, 2017 - 8 comments
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Watching the journalists
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 86 comments
“The obligation of a journalist is to serve the public”
Wikileaks unravels
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, January 8th, 2017 - 222 comments
In the space of a day Wikileaks managed to complain about another entity leaking information, threaten to dox pretty well every reporter, delete the tweet and then sound like Donald Trump.
Beware of Spin Doctors and Spin Professors
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, November 13th, 2016 - 97 comments
On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.
Chloe Swarbrick steps up for 2017
Written By: - Date published: 12:40 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 46 comments
“The world is changing, people are angry, and more than ever, we need open minds and compassionate action. I’m joining the @NZGreens”
Kiwi Treason
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, August 4th, 2016 - 181 comments
Vegemite and marmite taste the same, rugby is naff, John Clarke’s an Australian. What?
Sir Lynton Crosby and Dame Paula Rebstock
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, December 31st, 2015 - 106 comments
The British Conservative Government and the New Zealand National Government have both rewarded their friends with titles.
Government by Twitter
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, September 24th, 2015 - 66 comments
We have passed an interesting milestone in the evolution of NZ politics. Key’s poll-driven pandering has just been taken to the next level. Political / media dinosaurs will never be able to dismiss “The Twitterati” again.
Hosking, Henry and Media Bias
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, August 18th, 2015 - 187 comments
Yesterday a debate that has occurred on the Standard about how main stream media has a right wing bias became mainstream when Winston Peters accused Mike Hosking of being a National Party Stooge. An online poll provided overwhelming support for his statement. And recently Steven Joyce attacked Rod Oram because his analytical thoughtful analysis critical of the Government displayed evidence of left wing bias.
Effective political communication
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 pm, May 26th, 2015 - 61 comments
Richard Harman concluded his presentation to the recent Fabian “Destination Next Progressive Majority” event by quoting the noted political scientist Bob Chapman’s remark that he had “reluctantly come to the conclusion that it was far more important for a political party to have a communication strategy than an economic policy.” I’m inclined to agree.
PM’s social media advisor lashes out on Twitter
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, May 11th, 2015 - 49 comments
PM’s staff threatening people on Twitter. Such a good look.
International travel perks for the people who got us into this mess?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, March 16th, 2015 - 81 comments
The blogosphere leads the way in breaking a story about yet another sack of cash for MPs …
The Hypocrisy of Hate
Written By: - Date published: 4:07 pm, January 11th, 2015 - 223 comments
You’d think that with all the WW1 commemorations going on at the moment it would make us more vigilant about our freedom and security, not sleep-walking towards another Holy Crusade (in the name of the God of Money and Father of Fossil Fuels), seduced by slick liars and the gods of commercialism and greed.
Top MP tweeters ….?
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, December 29th, 2014 - 27 comments
Claire Trevett in the NZ Herald has an article on her chosen top MP tweeters, now that Judith Collins has vacated her (alleged) position as “Minister of Twitter” Not quite my list of top tweeters… and yours?
Textses
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 am, November 27th, 2014 - 35 comments
rOb somewhat scooped me, but here’s my twitter round-up of the reaction to the PM’s office releasing the texts last night.
#JohnKeyHistory
Written By: - Date published: 12:47 pm, November 20th, 2014 - 99 comments
Apparently the New Zealand Wars were just another Rugby analogy to John Key.
Nastiest election ever?
Written By: - Date published: 8:06 am, September 17th, 2014 - 79 comments
Is this the nastiest election ever? The wit and wisdom of Twitter on this and other matters…
Whaledump twitter account suspended
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, September 4th, 2014 - 163 comments
Whaledump’s account on Twitter has been suspended.
Someone is trying to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Update: @Whaledump2 is providing more dumps and No Right Turn & lprent comment on it.
From Twitter
Written By: - Date published: 8:18 pm, August 31st, 2014 - 34 comments
All your trashing the SFO connections. h/t DebsHancock
60 tweeps to follow this election
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, August 26th, 2014 - 4 comments
Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of “a perceived lack” of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was chock-full of the women who complained! Pesky, pesky women, as […]
NRT: Hoist by her own petard?
Written By: - Date published: 2:41 pm, June 3rd, 2014 - 20 comments
One should defend the right of a politician and anyone else to be a complete dork on the net. Even Judith Collins doesn’t need two years in jail for lying to a reporter about another reporter or tweeting bullying abusive rubbish. However many would see Collins’ tweets as “part of the cut and thrust between politicians and journalists”, and they’d be right. But the fact that they would be illegal under her law shows just how awful that law is
Imperator Fish: Let’s shut down the internet
Written By: - Date published: 1:40 pm, May 22nd, 2014 - 18 comments
There appears to have been a hiatus in the flood of posts today. Perhaps it is because of the wise words of Imperator Fish pausing the world as they consider his wise words… And those of Speaker Carter (who appears to have a problem with most current culture).
“Twitter sent to the Privileges Committee”
Written By: - Date published: 3:55 pm, May 20th, 2014 - 8 comments
Today David Carter made a speech to the House about his considering of the complaints, resulting in him deciding to refer the issue to the Privileges Committee. The over-riding consideration should be, do the rules and procedures serve the people and democratic processes?
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