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Re: In Case you missed it

From: Steve Withers (Home) <swithers_at_mmp.org.nz>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:34:20 +1200
Message-ID: <42A6835C.8090608@mmp.org.nz>

Andrew Walters wrote:

>On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:59, you wrote:
>
>| I don't understand why it's being questioned now, a year after the
>| government agreed to write the cap into law. Wasn't there the technical
>| advice to explain at the time that the internet is a two-way medium?
>
>Simple - (1) last year wasn't election year, and (2) NZ can't concentrate on
>more than one issue at a time, and last year the Foreshore stuff, and after
>that the Civil Union bill made sure nothing else (like upload speed regs) got
>much attention from Joe Public!
>
>AW
>
>

I'd say it's the NZ media that can't handle more than one issue at a time.

All important issues are actually going on all the time - as one can see
when using "Google Alerts" for various topics.

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