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Fighting Talk digest for this week

Fighting Talk digest for this week.

Lyndon Hood - differently waged, Lower Hutt Tuesday, April 27, 2004


So I though I'd have a look on the web, and sure enough: any number of people were discussing the actions of the Coalition of the Mislead and Coerced in Iraq with reference to the opinions of Niccolò di Bernado Machiavelli. Opinions, unsurprisingly, varied and many people were clearly working from cliché rather than from the source, but it does all raise a few questions. Not least: why do we care what some 534-year-old Italian thinks anyway? http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_fightingtalk_archive.html#1083 03975659780271

Tom Goulter - Disaffected Youth, Christchurch Sunday, April 25, 2004


In what has to be the most daring piece of journalistic burrowing since Woodward and Bernstein, TV3 on Saturday delivered a hard-hitting, objective piece on American and British reactions to the 48 Hours item featuring new pictures of Princess Diana taken moments after the car crash. 48 Hours, of course, being the current-events arm of CBS News, who - that's right, it's time for a punchline! - produced the report 3 News aired. http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_fightingtalk_archive.html#1082 89404889169120

Max Johns - South Island flour market researcher, No fixed abode Saturday, April 24, 2004

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I hate admitting it, but we owe Winston one. Now that “public domain” has been dropped from our shiny new foreshore and seabed legislation, he can take a bow. For those who’ve had their heads buried in the (somewhat contentious) sand over recent months, “public domain” was due to replace the Crown ownership that Labour wanted to ensure at our nation’s edges.

It was designed to grant all New Zealanders access to beaches, but the difference between this and Crown ownership is minimal. The benefit of “public domain” was that this less colonial-sounding phrase would hopefully placate opposition to the policy.

But it was either (a) a pseudonym for Crown ownership, or (b) entirely meaningless. And legislation, believe it or not, is never meaningless. This was a political dodge developed to put Turiana and co. off the scent – Look! It’s something so fantastic it’s got a new name! Remember when they replaced Mt. Cook with Aoraki, but it was the same mountain all along? http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_fightingtalk_archive.html#1082

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