When academics venture into the media to inform the public about their discipline, they have a basic obligation to be accurate in what they say. I'm afraid that Prof. Chris Gallavin has fallen short of this standard.
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Thus, I give up the spear!
Judith Collins says she has stepped down because of an email that says she did something that she never did. Should we believe her?
Read MoreDon't rely on the Herald, just read Pundit
If the NZ Herald wants its editorials to be taken seriously, it should stop using them to mislead its readers.
Read MoreOn John Roughan's confusions
John Roughan's column on why paying "voluntary" school fees is a good thing confuses me. I think that's because it is very confusing.
Read MoreThis is not a news story
Just because there aren't any important developments in the search for MH370 does not mean that the media should go out and invent "news" about it. Or, not everything Peter Jackson does deserves to be reported on.
Read MoreIt's not the computer that's racist, it's us
Ask Google what "Maori are", and you get some pretty nasty suggestions. Whose fault is that (hint - look at the people around you)?
Read MoreFirst they came for John Tamihere, and I did not speak out
Once again, the Sisterhood has dragged down John Tamihere. Look upon his fate, ye men, and ponder.
Read MoreThe Herald's post-2014 election fantasy
Some nameless person at the New Zealand Herald thinks either Labour or the Greens may have to support National after the 2014 election. And that person gets a salary to write this sort of stuff!
Read MoreIt's called "news" for a reason, you know
The Herald is telling its readers that the "[Same sex] marriage bill leaves a few inequalities to sort out". But you Pundit readers knew that already
Read MoreIn that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands ...
Fran O'Sullivan doesn't like it when commentators present their readers with "very thin analysis". Perhaps she ought to stop doing so, then.
Read MoreWhy don't I have a right to know what I have a right to know?
John Banks knows who gave money to his mayoral campaign. We know John Banks knows who gave money to his mayoral campaign. So why don't we know who gave money to John Banks' mayoral campaign?
Read MoreThe new Herald reviewed: Granny is gone
In which I spend a bit of time before breakfast browsing through the new paper that arrived in my letterbox... the good, bad and meh
Read MoreDoing the Herald editor's job for him
I don't know if the New Zealand Herald editor exercises any oversight over the columns his "opinionators" send to him each week. But I thought I'd do an after-the-fact job on John Roughan's effort on gay adoption that appeared in last Saturday's paper.
Read MoreThese are not the droids you are looking for
Rodney Hide wisely has left Parliament behind him. But that doesn't mean he gets to pretend that he never was in Parliament.
Read MoreYou have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form." Discuss.
Read MoreChart of the day: Say something already! edition
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
The latest episode in the unfolding story of Justice Bill Wilson sees our intrepid hero, Sir Edmund (Ted) Thomas, radically reduce the number of Christmas cards he will have to answer this year.
Read MoreI love the news, it's my favourite show
This is a shameless attempt to attract media coverage for a relatively obscure blogsite. Please print my story - it's about a gay Labour MP.
Read MoreJust leave Michael Laws alone.
Our liberty cannot be guarded but by freedom of the press. But does a free press really have to suck so bad?
Read MoreWillie Apiata: the photo the army published
The New Zealand Defence Force is going to talk to the Herald about its use of Willie Apiata's photo. Perhaps it wants to take the photos of him off its own website first?
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