The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday – 22nd October 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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Thia is a tasty piece to add to the banquet of warmed over opinions from wordsmiths.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018817351/a-pundit-backlash-against-actual-experts
It started last month, when the Herald’s business editor Fran O’Sullivan accidentally tweeted what was meant to be a private message to Covid modeller Rodney Jones, thanking him for a “well-timed article” and calling out the government for relying on “bogus modellers like Hendy”.
O’Sullivan apologised the next day.
But anti-expert views have surfaced again over the last week or so.
Over at Stuff, political editor Luke Malpass argued that it’s time to start looking beyond what he called the “epidemiological echo chamber”.