Was probably speeding too...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10702501
Was probably speeding too...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10702501
its a cop allright, commie on steel rims is a giveaway
I thought the popo had an exemption?
Would have definitely been communicating information of operational significance.
I'm all for holding officers accountable to the same standards as the rest of us are forced to adhere to, but given the other crap some of them do, this hardly rates a mention.
Keep on chooglin'
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
Another bit of media sensationalism. Police have an exemption when on the phone for police purposes.
Oh, and I have more respect and refuse to call them "popo". One of the police killed in Porirua was murdered by a cock named Popo.
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I have a gas axe and a welder! What do you mean "it won't fit"?
It would be less news worthy if they hadn't denied it - if they'd just 'yes, it was an police officer, using the phone in the line of duty (as per above exemption)' nobody would have given a rats behind.
It's a bit like thatMartin Devlin and the name suppression - if he hadn't got his name suppressed the story would have been small and disappeared within a day or two.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
Too true in many cases. Investigative journalism, well there's these guys: http://www.investigatemagazine.com/ ........dunno if I'd rate them as high as 'good' though...![]()
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
Keep on chooglin'
Yes...nicely summed up!
It seems we don't tend to get true investigative journalism here, probably because of the size of the country and no one wants to upset anyone too much, generally for commercial reasons when it comes to the media.
Ever notice how when any of the NZ bike mags test bikes or products there's hardly ever a truly negative report?
Don't want to lose those advertising $$$, and I guess you can't blame them as they need to make a living.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
The thing with investigative journalism is that it's really really expensive to do.
And the finished product is often due to the complexity of the case a difficult to follow analysis that puts people off reading.
When I was working for Fairfax in Northland we once did an investigative story, we ended up as finalists in the annual Qantas Media Awards for investigative journalism but it burnt up so much of our annual budget for no advertising gain we were rooted for the rest of the financial year, and as a result never did it again!
The big players in News media are massive multinational corporations with an obsessive fixation on the bottom line.
Short version is.... Focusing on investigative journalism is considered the corporate highway to hell (hell being bankruptcy).
A few outlets still do the odd bit of investigative work but it is only done as an occasional thing in order to protect the brand, such as what ACP's North and South used to do in the late 90's/early 2000's.
A reasonable quality small player these days is http://www.scoop.co.nz/
Not as much investigative work is done there these days but the comentators still do very good analysis of the issues.
Other than that you'd be best to turn to the world of bloggers!
Personal blogging faves for me would be;
http://publicaddress.net/
http://www.kiwipolitico.com/
http://dimpost.wordpress.com/
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BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!! BULLSHIT!!
So please fuck off and die.
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Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........![]()
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Yeah I did wonder whether it was another one of those Walter Mitty types that had picked up a car at auction, and got himself either a police or customs shirt from a locker room or clothesline somewhere.
There seems to be one pop up in Auckland every few years.
I still think it was most likely a cop tho.
Big whoop de doo, I'd still rather he was doing that, than any number of other things, particularly sudden lane changes or U-turns.
Keep on chooglin'
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