Comments on Cactus Kate: Bring Back Deborah Hill Cone

Andrew: LOL! I'm no communist. I describe Rogernom...

2008-04-22T17:29:00.000+12:00

Andrew: LOL! I'm no communist. I describe Rogernomics as a faith system because the policies followed didn't work out the way the people advocating them expected them to. Reality didn't cooperate. Wages have flattened out and we have fallen behind Australia. Productivity can't rise becasue we are a small country and lack scale for expensive mechanisation of production....Just two examples of how reality conflicted with the religion. There are more, but Cactus Kate will probably kick my arse around the block for dwelling on it too long.

I'm a pragmatist. If something doesn't turn out the way you thought it would, you find out why, if you can, and adjust. It's the economic religionists who continue to say we should bail more water into the boat to make it float better. They want 3 month probation periods for new employees, for example. More downward pressure on wages.

Yes.

2008-04-22T12:00:00.000+12:00

Yes.

Ouch. You are a prickly cactus. How about a pissy ...

2008-04-19T10:47:00.000+12:00

Ouch. You are a prickly cactus. How about a pissy lunch in the CBD next time you are in Auckland? I promise I shan't talk about babies.

AnonymousNo I am not. But on current form, I woul...

2008-04-18T08:48:00.000+12:00

Anonymous

No I am not. But on current form, I would have to respectfully agree with you.

"the priests of the church of the Rogernomics took...

2008-04-17T20:46:00.000+12:00

"the priests of the church of the Rogernomics took over"

Spot the commie with the pretentious name.

don't be silly Cactu you are a far better writer.

2008-04-17T15:40:00.000+12:00

don't be silly Cactu you are a far better writer.

DH Cone always was not worth reading in my view. I...

2008-04-17T15:16:00.000+12:00

DH Cone always was not worth reading in my view. I should say that I have only read the odd piece from the NBR that was both visible on the Internet and the subject of some debate in a forum somewhere.

I used to subscribe to the NBR years ago, but it was ruined as source of useful information when the priests of the church of the Rogernomics took over and evidence no matter longer was relevant in the faith-based economic system they espoused. I don't do religion. Graeme Hunt? No thanks. Cone seemed to thrive there.

Later, I did read all of her columns during her thankfully brief tenure as Russell Brown's successor (IIRC) in the Media column at the Listener. Her columns were not the media monitoring or analysis I had found useful and interesting previously. Instead, there was some fairly prurient gossip that was unedifying and cheap in my opinion. "Come back Russell", I thought.

Maybe I misjudged her, but every piece of her writing I have ever read first created, and then confirmed, my provisional view that she wasn't up to much as journalist. More of a polemicist.

You didn't like Anita MacNaught's business show b...

2008-04-17T08:56:00.000+12:00

You didn't like Anita MacNaught's business show back when she had one here in NZ then?