Philip Matthews@secondzeit

Almost the last NZ journalist on Twitter. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. These opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

 Christchurch City, New Zealand
Joined December 2010
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Philip Matthews retweeted
Donna Miles دانا مجاب
@UnPressed
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“…they recognised the attacks on Māori were financially lucrative. After every email to supporters, every flurry on social media, the donations poured in. While the rest of us were singing Tūtira Mai, the Taxpayers’ Union was encouraging a proportion of the population to become incensed.”
Nick Young
@nickofnz
Sep 25
While Stuff publish a facile review from Chris Penk in which he admits he didn’t even read Nicky Hager’s book, this review by Simon Wilson who did, is worth a read. Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves simonwilsonhopetown.substack… #HagerBook
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Simon Wilson@simonbwilson
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At the heart of Nicky Hager’s book is the tale of how a group of cynical hard-right ideologues made racism a winning political platform, not because they’re white supremacists, but because it suited their interests. My Hopetown post is here #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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I didn’t have to dig into what Ani O’Brien majored in. It’s mentioned in the book DIRTY WORK by Nicky Hager. This Chris Lynch-style act of blocking but arguing through screenshots is ridiculous.
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You might also have considered the mental health of people such as Benjamin Doyle and Maiki Sherman, along with the many other unnamed people have suffered from the hatred you and your organisations have pushed over the years.
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2023 called. It wants its stupid political ideas back.
Ko Elizabeth ahau woke af@black13830
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'What's a woman?': Vision NZ's Karl Mokaraka heckles Chris Hipkins at Ōtara Markets | RNZ share.google/FrVzvFNcQ1Y3kKN…
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Cam “Obi Wan” Slater
Cam Slater
@kaiviti_cam
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Just because Hager wrote a chapter, and that's a generous description of just a few pages, doesn't mean he's right. I mean, seriously, he's also said JW was my apprentice, also Don Brash's, Simon Lusk's, David Farrar's and Stephen Frank's apprentice. I think apprentice is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the pamphlet... maybe Hager was channelling the Star Wars franchise?
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Enough politics. Let’s go to the movies.
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Sort of is: there’s a white whale named Jordan Williams and Hager is pursuing him around the globe.
Rachelle
@Raindance_33
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Replying to @secondzeit
Point taken, but it's hardly Moby Dick.
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Call me old fashioned but I always thought if you’re going to diss a book, you should have read it. Especially if you have an English degree. Imagine, in your American Lit course: “I haven’t read Moby Dick but I generated an AI summary.”
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Philip Matthews retweeted
Snivelling Wokester NZ@AstroPuss
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OOOF! Steve Braunias:
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When there is a chapter about you, it’s the shortest in the book, and you *still* need to get an AI summary.
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Living in a world where it’s become normal to not even read a short chapter, let alone a book, and to outsource your thinking to LLMs. (The above is by Ani “the apprentice” O’Brien)
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Philip Matthews retweeted
LambDressedAsMutton@RaukawaDiver
Sep 25
The thing that amazes me about Jordan Williams is he lives in a city bubble and has no awareness of how obsessively racist people have become. He may be responsible for activating some angry, pakeha, rural,single men living alone who are best described as mentally disturbed.
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Simon's piece is excellent. In my view, both the race chapter (3) and the Ani O'Brien chapter (5) are valuable accounts of very cynical polite campaigning, which we have become far too blase about, especially in the media. The whole book is worth reading.
Nick Young
@nickofnz
Sep 25
While Stuff publish a facile review from Chris Penk in which he admits he didn’t even read Nicky Hager’s book, this review by Simon Wilson who did, is worth a read. Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves simonwilsonhopetown.substack… #HagerBook
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Part of the reaction among media and the political class this week has been a jaded posture, that all this is old news, BAU, utterly normal etc. But it's good to see it all laid out, clearly and directly, framed by Hager's hope for something better.
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That should be “political campaigning” not “polite campaigning”
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Philip Matthews retweeted
Clint Smith@ClintVSmith
Sep 25
the dirty politics gang is really sounding the 'everything's ok alarm' loud, eh? Endless stream of opeds saying 'whatever you do, don't read this book'
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There must be a Faith No More fan at the ODT
Catherine@MrsMacNZ
Sep 24
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Catherine@MrsMacNZ
Sep 24
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This piece claims the FSU was a grassroots movement. You mean a grassroots movement that formed in the Taxpayers Union office and included Jordan Williams, Don Brash and Stephen Franks in its first iteration as the Free Speech Coalition? So grassrootsy.
Dane Giraud ✡️@Dane_Giraud
Sep 25
Nicky Hager is of an elite intelligentsia who hold a kind of Free Speech Union derangement revealed in Dirty Work – Dane Giraud, via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/nicky-hage…
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I also suspect a journalist who was famously raided by the police knows about real life free speech issues, despite what Dane implies
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It's the standard right-wing populist rhetoric: we're the real people and they (in this case, Hager) are the "elite". Dane even uses the word "intelligentsia". Get him to the re-education camp!
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