Posts Tagged ‘matthew hooton’
Urgency
Written By: - Date published: 2:38 pm, December 8th, 2008 - 50 comments
During this morning’s Nine to Noon politics segment Matthew Hooton was saying how he thought the Government’s 100-day action plan would only include policies signalled prior to the election when he let slip: “And I’m sure while there will be some complaints about one measure… er… some measures…” I wonder what that one unpopular measure […]
MSM columns – clueless about fact checking
Written By: - Date published: 5:33 pm, September 14th, 2008 - 30 comments
This week the election was announced and the third question to the PM (asked by Colin Espiner) was about whether The Standard possibly knew the date (Helen doesn’t tell us either). Colin thinks we’re being sensitive about the mainstream media’s attitudes to The Standard as shown in a comment he made on his own blog […]
Ambitious for NZ political debate
Written By: - Date published: 11:35 am, July 14th, 2008 - 24 comments
It’s sad that Matthew Hooton passes for a political commentator in this country. If he was a blogger, he would be third, fourth tier. Surely, we can do better. Last year in his column, Hooton suggested that there would be no election this year because Labour would stage a coup. Last week on Nine till Noon, he ranted endlessly […]
Radio National
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, July 11th, 2008 - 3 comments
The day that National Radio publicises a ‘survey’ produced by Matthew Hooton is a very strange day. That day is today. Hooton’s ‘independent’ ‘survey’ finds flaws in the Emissions Trading Scheme. ‘Amazing’. For those with long memories, it reminds one of a survey the Sunday News ran back in the Dark Ages (early ’96) when […]
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