Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Help wanted!

***UPDATED - see above***

I can't find the ACT-related event referred to by "anonymous" which supposedly occurred on December 5, according to a comment placed the following day:
Anonymous said...

I'm surprised you haven't covered the very significant Act event last night.

December 6, 2007 2:43 PM

The ACT website has a press release from Heather Roy issued on December 5, but I'm not sure this is an earth-shattering event:
Independent Trouble-Shooter Needed For CCDHB

ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today called for Capital & Coast District Health Board members to be stood down, and called for an independent commissioner to be appointed to resolve the terminal crisis at the ailing public health service.

"The commissioner must have a proven record of turning organisations around and be able to think outside the square," Mrs Roy said....
I couldn't find anything of relevance either recorded by the Herald as taking place on December 5.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is the problem when you rely on media coverage and press releases ie spin.

Don't you have primary sources?

Sir Roger Douglas' 70 birthday in Parliament, attended by some 270 people.

December 20, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Geoffrey Miller said...

Thanks anonymous for the information - I do genuinely appreciate it. Please see a follow-up post at http://douglastodancing.blogspot.com/2007/12/help-wanted-solved.html.

As I wrote elsewhere, I am a commentator, not an ACT insider. Obviously, the media will be a major primary source of material for this blog. I have also written a 133-page dissertation which used an extensive bibliography, drew on three original interviews with figures from within ACT and e-mail correspondence with another, and data gained from three focus groups run by me during the year.

December 20, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Commenting on what the media tells you?

Is that really a commentator?

As I said, you will have a pretty warped sense of perspective if that's where you get your information.

My advice- keep talking to those (and more) primary sources.

December 21, 2007 at 9:01 AM

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