Agenda fact checking
Very amusing to watch the students do fact checking on Agenda. They found:
- Lockwood Smith was only half right in claiming 80,000 Kiwis had left last year, as did not take account of returning Kiwis
- David Parker was only half right in claiming they have doubled the compensation to forestry owners as in fact has only increased by 50% on original offer
- Most amusingly of all they found Nick Smith’s comment that the first policy released by Labour in this campaign was a National policy was 100% correct. They checked both the Beehive website and the Labour Party website and could not find a single 2008 election policy listed.
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September 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I defer to Nelson Muntz.
HA HA!
September 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
the funniest part was after their piece..
..where the editor of the sunday heald blurted..
“that’s the job journalists should be doing..!”
would that it be..
..eh..?
..phil(whoar.co.nz)
September 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
On the third item I think the issue is that Labour is using a different website for its campaign http://www.labour08.co.nz/. If you look on that (http://www.labour08.co.nz/policies/) you will see that Labour has released a lot of policies. But this is going to be a problem for Labour this election – using a different website than their ‘home’ website. I notice their billboards state the http://www.labour08.co.nz website.
Interestingly, they also have http://www.labourparty.org.nz/ and http://www.labour.co.nz. All three are different websites.
Very odd.
[DPF: Actually when I look on that website I find no policies also. Just a UNIX pdf]
September 14th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I’m sure this is just coincidence but the Agenda website reports on the Fact FIner only covers the story about Lockwood Smith and not the other two which show Labour in a bad light: http://homepaddock.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/fact-finder-doesnt-show-all-the-facts/