NZ news was ahead of China’s

February 26th, 2008 at 12:47 am by David Farrar

Back on the 14th, I linked to a post on the Hive. about how a Chinese newspaper reported the Chinese Government reported the the China-NZ Free Trade Agreement

Somewhat unkindly (and not entirely seriously) I suggested that NZers are getting better news from China than NZ on the Free Trade Agreement.

An alert journo has pointed out that in fact NZPA had a story in January on the China FTA, and that it would be signed in April.

So let the record be corrected. The NZ Govt is officially still more open than China’s, and the gallery did not get scooped by the Chinese!

Tags: China, Free Trade, Media, NZPA, The Hive

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4 Responses to “NZ news was ahead of China’s”

helmet (802) Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Well frankly I was shocked that you engaged in such criticism at all, given the fact that it’s obviously one of your National research unit talking points. These blatant astroturfing dog whistling tactics are just disgusting, absolutely disgusting. Lets talk about the real issues instead, y’know, like how John Key sniffs fruit. Now that’s news.
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pushmepullu (686) Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 8:13 am
So the NZ government snuck it out in a buried press release in the hope nobody noticed… that’s not exactly ‘open’
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Dave (10) Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 8:24 am
First thing that came to mind

Mr. Prosser: But Mr. Dent the plans have been available in the planning office for the last 9 months.!

Arthur: Yes!—I went round to find them yesterday afternoon.! You’d hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to pull much attention to them have you!?—I mean like actually telling anybody or anything.

Mr. Prosser: The plans were on display.!

Arthur: Ah!—and how many members of the public are in the habit of casually dropping around the local planning office of an evening?

Mr. Prosser: dwu-ah!

Arthur: It’s not exactly a noted social venue is it!!!? And even if you had popped in on the off chance that some raving bureaucrat wanted to knock your house down, the plans weren’t immediately obvious to the eye were they!!?

Mr. Prosser: That depends where you were looking.

Arthur: I eventually had to go down to the cellar.!

Mr. Prosser: That’s the display department.

Arthur: With a torch!

Mr. Prosser: The lights, had… probably gone.

Arthur: So had the stairs.!

Mr. Prosser: Well you found the notice didn’t you?

Arthur: Yes it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, “Beware of the Leopard.” Ever thought of going into advertising?
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Murray (8,832) Says:
February 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
So as part of this aggrement will members of QA Squadron be running over the Fulan Gong float in Lambton Quay?

Excuse me the ess than warm cuddly feelings about getting closer to communist China.
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