Personally, I’d consider an endorsement from that kind of person a kiss of death to be dodged at all costs.

Like Red (although I suspect for way different sort of core reasons) I’ve become increasingly despondent with the quality of the media – not just locally but also globally. I harvest news from all around the globe and from fora like this. It’s the only way, really, to not be steered down some crappy human interest dimension or the peculiar political or religious biases of the media owner. Everyone reporter carries some degree of bias so it’s important to background the issue as best you can from a variety of perspectives. The web is really helping by increasingly enabling people to go directly to the source information for themselves.

And, finally, imagine Red digging on a hip phrase like “jumped the shark”. Fantastic. There may be hope for you yet, Red.

I’ll do my best.

I don’t have to swim in the sea to know its a big wet thing. Anymore braindead questions bimbo?

Mate, if that’s the case, how do you know it is all put out by braindead comsymps?

Danyl, sorry but that’s balls – that’s as silly as bitching that Michael Cullen is rather ungraciously declining to start talking about the ’08 Budget (and don’t tell me that there’s not work in train on that as we speak), or Clark isn’t quite ready to spill campaign strategy/policies quite yet. If I had fifteen minutes of clear airtime with Clark, I guess flogging that dead horse wouldn’t be too big a priority.

And I’d actually like to see National NOT repeat the farce of the “20 hours free” debacle – which is a fine case study in why you have a carefully thought out and soundly costed policy before you write the press release.

Just like Helen Clark….

And don’t forget Afghanistan where ex anti-war protesters will all too willing to cuddle up to a VC winner.

Must make the moronic left puke up their lentil soup

“..just one of the 3 millon a week aye phule?..”

no chicky..not 3 million..yet..

but if you are referring to the 1,576,922 page-views i had in july..?

thanks for giving me the opportunity to bring that up..

would you and adolf like to get together and work on publicising whoar..?

you both seem eminintly suited for the job..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

I thought Tracy did well, but the difference between Watkins, Small and Key is that Key wants to become the Prime Minister and the other two don’t.

Sorry, but here’s Interviewing 101, repeating the same question over and over isn’t going to get you the answer you want to hear.

If a journalist repeatedly asks a party leader a very basic question like ‘what are your policies’ and the leader is unwilling or unable to answer then I would suggest the fault lies with the leader not the person asking the question.

“The MSM is losing many readers, the SST is part of this trend, with sales/ readership dropping 10% or so in two years.”

Yes, precisely, but that is because they refuse to meet the market. Which is the point I tried to make. They insist on trying to push media troglodytes like Trotter down our throats when we’re bored to death with his socialist crapola. FOX News is booming in the US because they’ve broken the mould and are giving the viewers balance. Allowing right wing views the same platform as left wing views (and that’s of course why the left hate them so intensely)

All the old left wing media outlets are struggling in the US because like the NZ editors at the Herald, the SST, TV One, TV Three and most other mainstream media they insist on putting their ideology before the market. They even go so far as to continually and purposefully deny anyone who isn’t a socialist sycophant any opportunity to express their views. So fuck ‘em. Let them sink in their own excrement.

..and if you’re a print journalist, (as I think you are) then I’m sorry that you find yourself in a field of endeavour that looks like its time is over, but hell, its not as if these people haven’t been warned in the past. They only have their own ideological inflexibility to blame.

Just one of the 3 millon a week aye phule?

You got over that embarrassment quickly I must say. If I’d made a dick of myself like you did I’d hide out for a couple of months at least not just a couple of weeks like you did.

and thanks for the plug..!

live-commentary starting again on tues 2 pm..and each and every questiontime..

(archives are available for those interested in what dicks politicians of all stripes make of themselves..

also interesting for a preview of how clark/cullen will ‘monster’ key/english in any public/election debates..

(now that you mention it adolf..)

but do see for yourselves..eh..?

for the agenda ‘embarrassment’..

and for the commentaries..

to have a good laugh..at them all..

(once again..thanks adolf..for the plug..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

[DPF: Always amazes me how some people can not handle a challenge of ideas and think getting rid of views they don't like is somehow a good thing]

To be quite honest, I thought the really rather mediocre performances of Vernon and Tracey on Agenda was the real scandal. Sorry, but here’s Interviewing 101, repeating the same question over and over isn’t going to get you the answer you want to hear. Still, I think you’ve put your finger on something – Helen Clark may be a “fearsome and dangerous opponent”; so was Robert Muldoon, but the problem with personality cults is that when the idol loses its charms, what’s left?