January 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm by David Farrar
- Neil Sanderson has research from Pew. In 2008, the number of people gettign their news off the Internet went from 24% to 40%, beating newspapers at 34% for the first time. Tv remains top at 70R% but is slowly declining.
- Chris Trotter has a repost of a 2001 address he gave on defence. Many may be surprised by his views. I found myself agreeing with much of it!
- Tim Blair notes that *only* 1,147 cars were burnt in France on New Year’s Eve, which was described by authorities as “rather calm”
- MacDoctor finds the new English requirements for foreign nurses as idiotic at a time of nursing shortages, and points out most NZ nurses could not meet the new standard.
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January 4th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Chris Trotter’s 2001 address is indeed largely prophetic, and having not followed him back then, I am quite surprised at his view – him being a self-avowed Marxist.
Vote:Interesting.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I’m guessing, but it’s entirely possible that people are getting their news off internet sites run by television companies like CNN.
Vote:January 5th, 2009 at 7:23 am
I doubt that’s true, but feel free to surprise me.
[DPF: Umm try reading the linked article where Chris calls himself a Marxist]
Vote:January 5th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Heh, that’d do it. I would wonder if he still is one though, or even if other Marxists regard him so.
Vote:January 5th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
…seeing as he now goes on about ‘social democracy’ quite a lot. 2001 was a long time ago.
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