Dirty politics in cyberspace

September 21st, 2008 at 6:42 am by David Farrar

Anthony Hubbard in the SST has written an interesting and well balanced article on dirty politics in cyberspace. Has quotes from Cameron Slater, Rochelle Rees, Lynn Pretnice and Rob Salmond.

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16 Responses to “Dirty politics in cyberspace”

OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,672) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 6:55 am
Lynn Prentice and Rob Salmond are the recognised authorities on DIRTY POLITICS.

They live in the gutter.
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OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,672) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 6:59 am
Anyone else ever realise that Lynn Prentice has a girls name?
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 7:18 am
Isn’t she? I mean, isn’t she a she?
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am
Ah, shes a he. That explains the major chip on shoulder attitude. A boy named Sue…
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OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,672) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 7:26 am
Shirley not?
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 7:30 am
It certainly explains a lot. And his lank haired neice just happened to google bomb Key. Labour lick spittles and party members to boot, or were until they started up the sub-standard.

[IPrent: I AM a guru level programmer. Don't spout your tory filth here or you will be banned for a week.]
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Oh jayzuz! The psycho has hacked kiwiblog!
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David Farrar (1,741) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am
I don’t think Lynn or Rob themselves do anything wrong. I do think that they obsfuscate though that a reasonable proportion of the material for “their” blogs comes from people who are on parliamentary, party or party affiliate payrolls.

I think everyone now understands this, and puts their material into that context.
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 8:08 am
People who it seems are paid to blog pro-labour by labour affiliated organisations such as the EPMU, the labour party and the prime ministers office?

I don’t know David, I’d say that managing a blog such as that is just plain wrong.

And ultimately pointless.
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philu (13,393) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 8:27 am
a pretty crap article really..

..it just sorta eh..?meanders along..and whimpers to a close with a fucken laws-anecdote..?..ffs..!

you’d have to give it a ‘d’ for construction/execution..

..and..dpf..a special ‘award’ for you..eh..?..with your ‘close-associations’ with natty-hq/the party-line..and being a conduit/outlet/agit-prop conduit for both..(with your peters’-campaign being such a clear illustration of that..eh..?..)

..(i mean..we all read you with that fact/reality in mind..you didn’t think it was any different..?..did you..?..)

..but that you issue pious platitudes about labour/centre-left influences on the standard..(!)

..and you must think we/the readers are all really dumb…and don’t/can’t use that filter..for both the standard..and you/kiwiblog..

..and anyone reading my words knows they are filtered through a vegan/animal-rights/human rights/deep green sensibility..

..so..um..!..your ‘case’ is..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 8:31 am
i..um..belive the pointwas..um…like

that..the article/news item/commentary in the um SST..

was like balanced and of interest…in..the..context/light of the election…

…duh. like..bloggers have reached the mainstream in NZ political campaigning..eh!

…soo, whats your point ?
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David Farrar (1,741) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 8:59 am
phil: I disclose all my relevant background and activities so people can indeed judge my words in context. My issue is that others are not doing the same.
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philu (13,393) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am
sure..dpf..

..but isn’t that obvious..?

(and actually one of the delights of this new media..?

..this shedding of those faux-cloaks of impartiality..

..behind which most of the mainstream media hide/parrot their personal/their employers political (and other) ideologies..?

..you’d think..?..

it’s actually something to celebrate..and helps for a more reasoned/informed electorate/society..

..and we are all able to read/judge each others’ words/opinions..

..in that light..

..phil(whoar.co.nz)
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PaulL (5,196) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
Phil, are the …. in your writing the bits where you stopped for a toke? Or just where your brain had a temporary freeze?

DPF is very up front about his connections. And about what he does and does not receive from them. The Standard and 08Wire deliberately do not discuss their connections, deliberately hide their identities, and are “neither confirming nor denying” what they receive from them.

As for the Winston stuff – you can’t really be thinking that DPF would need anyone from the National party research unit to put those together. He is largely (entirely?) reprinting and summarising public domain info. There is nothing that I have seen here that I haven’t seen in a public domain article of some sort. Yes, DPF does a great job of pulling it together into one place, and summarising it so that it is accessible. But so could anyone in the media if they bothered and/or were halfway competent.
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Mike (162) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I’m sure they would all really like to be able to publish their real names, and the names of their sources, but it seems to me like the reason a lot of people want their names and their sources names published is so that they can silence them. Pretending otherwise isn’t exactly in the spirit of competition really.
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expat (3,980) Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 11:15 pm
WTF are you talking about with all this jibberjabber, fool.

Looney tune central.

philu (3256) Vote: 0 8 Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am

sure..dpf..

..but isn’t that obvious..?

(and actually one of the delights of this new media..?

..this shedding of those faux-cloaks of impartiality..

..behind which most of the mainstream media hide/parrot their personal/their employers political (and other) ideologies..?

..you’d think..?..

it’s actually something to celebrate..and helps for a more reasoned/informed electorate/society..

..and we are all able to read/judge each others’ words/opinions..

..in that light..

..phil(whoar.co.nz)
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