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There's a discussion started on the "Where is this democracy" thread, about the demise of public service radio. Partly this is in response to Guyon Espiner being appointed to Morning Report on RNZ. What would it take to set up and run a regular progressive…
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There were a couple of interesting stories yesterday relating to the mainstream media and the blogs. Firstly it was announced that Guyon Espiner will become the new host on Morning Report. This has caused some comment. His appointment from the Mediaworks stable is unhelpful. Radio New…
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And by popular demand here are the ten most commented posts for 2013. Open mike posts, which often contain a number of comments, were not included. Collectively the posts show the desire to tease out the subtleties of issues as well as the need to…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike …
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Normally we'd put "ImperatorFish: " because, well, the post come from that site and purportedly from the fertile satirical mind of Scott Yorke. But in this case it is clear that someone else must have written the post. They couldn't get the sequence of events right and…
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There is always a fool who prefers to invent a story rather than trying to understand it. Rob Salmond points out that David Farrar is one of them. Of course as he also implies that it might be simply convenient for a National puppet to…
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How about if I was to have a right to meaningfully engage in processes of decision making, roughly to the extent that potential decisions flowing from any deliberations would impact me? And of course, you’d get to exercise the same level of deliberative power for…
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I have had one or two little discussions with poverty denialists on the The Standard lately - usually denialists from the right of politics, and some pushing posts from one of the well-known right wing blogs. They continue with their denialism, in the face of…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike …