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By: scotty kiwi bear

scotty kiwi bear — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:48:44 +0000

mmm, the only thing i can see wrong with this blog is the fact that the comments can’t be deleted by the author, lol.

I didn’t mean to sound so harsh when responding to bearhunter. i just get soooo sick of people using the word immigrant to describe overstayers and crap. migrants are most definitely not all under the same umbrella by any means.

note to whoever runs this blog:) Hi:) I’ll be more sparing with my comments since realising I don’t have the power to remove them:p

By: scotty kiwi bear

scotty kiwi bear — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:55:49 +0000

oh bearhunter…*sighs

I’m an immigrant too, and i didn’t see anything that you said that i can agree with.

NZF does not dislike all immigrants btw. Maybe you should go home though, with that attitude.

methinks maybe bearhunter has issues. lol and yuk to your ID that you chose, maybe you need hunted.

By: Penn Pattison

Penn Pattison — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:31:12 +0000

Have you read today’s Teletext item headed “Glenn says Peters sought donation”?

The first paragraph of the item states: “Expatriate billionaire Owen Glenn has produced fresh evidence backing his claim that NZ First leader Winston Peters asked him for a donation.”

It substantiates this by saying: “There is no doubt that the request came to me from Mr Peters,” Glenn says in a letter.

This is not fresh evidence backing any claim. It is merely a restatement or reaffirmation of his recollection.

I know wordage is limited on Teletext, but this is just not up to reasonable journalistic standards, and follows similarly shonky reporting of the session of the Privileges Committee held a couple of weeks ago.

By: Jens Meder

Jens Meder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:20:34 +0000

Bearhunter, it is a reality in politics, that politicians more often than not, try to please their audience. By the late 1990s the immigration wave pushed up housing prices & rents enough at least in Auckland to cause public resentment, and your NZ First candidate obviously believed to please you with his radical announcement. To my knowledge NZ First policy is to control the in-flow of newcomers to New Zealand to reflect our needs and ability to accommodate.
Don’t you think this is a sensible policy even from an immigrant’s point of view?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:14:29 +0000

It seems to me that journalists are no longer reporters but have become commentators. They are always offering their own opinion, which is always coloured by their own political, religious and business beliefs.