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Remember Noelle McCarthy's 95bFM interview with Brash in which she got him to admit to knowledge of the Brethren pamphlets? Student radio has done it again. Hager's weekend article in the Sunday Star Times detailed an ongoing advisory relationship between the National Party and political consultants Crosby Textor. But RDU's Kate Gorgeous…
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Brand Key on Waatea news: "A National government will be a lot more demanding about educational standards, a lot more demanding about under-performance in schools, a lot more demanding on failing schools" There is no 'how we will fix things' here, simply a statement of…
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There's a standard formula that Crosby/Textor has its clients use when damaging information comes out. a) refuse to engage. The most senior public response to the revelation that Brand Key has been created by exactly the same people who ran Brash's divisive, racist campaign in…
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So Crosby/Textor has been designing Brand Key from Day 1, isn't this just what every party does? No, it isn't - Crosby/Textor uses a particularly undemocratic, nasty form of political marketing (more on that in later posts) and the extent to which National uses Crosby/Textor…