Comparing two recent items of news. On one side we have the tapes from the National Party annual conference, which doesn’t really need a link, and on the other we have a near lifestyle piece on Georgina Beyer http://www.stuff.co.nz/4656221a11.html. David Farrar has called this a disgusting sense of entitlement, but I disagree.
Though it does not explicitly say so, I think it is fairly safe to assume, considering the photo is of her in her front door, that Colin Espiner has gone to interview her, this is a long way from sticking out a press release telling every one she’s disappointed that she hasn’t been able to get a public service posting, this is her replying too a reporters questions.
Compare this with the National Party tapes. Had this been a press conference or a press release, there would have been very little fuss. What they said was in the context of what is being said to National Party insiders, and that’s why it’s a big deal, they are being two faced about their policy.
What National did would have been ok if they had sent it out in a press release, what Georgian Beyer said would not have been ok if it was sent out in a press release, its as simple as that.
