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Guest Blog:Yes, you can have a political narrative but no, you can’t own it
Guest blogger Neil Stockley is an expert on political narratives. The lessons are equally valid in NZ. Comments on how it applies here, please. So the US presidential election moves from the gruelling...
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Boris’s blues: You won’t find this on kiwiblog
Oh dear. Boris Johnson is in trouble already. When he was elected Mayor of London a couple of months ago, the NZ right bloggers were ecstatic. However, not much has been heard from them on Johnson’s...
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Stockley on McNasty’s counter-narratives
Ex-pat political consultant Neil Stockley provides an excellent analysis of McCain’s nasty counter-narratives, and what they tell us about the American body politic. Barack Obama: not “one of us”...
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Neil Stockley: Clever frames, shame about the policy
A Neil Stockley guest post looks at McCain’s success in framing an issue on which he’s weak (the economy) in a favourable way. The problem is, it’s pure deceipt. For more on framing, policy and the US...
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After the glitz, US voters still don’t get the full story
I’m off to Waiheke for a couple of days. Back Saturday morning. By then Winston Peters will most likely have been sacked, or resigned, but it won’t affect anything much in and of itself. So I’m looking...
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The subsurface campaign: US & NZ
Today’s LA Times carries a piece by Columbia University professor of journalism and sociology Todd Gitlin that provides a vivid and sharply drawn analysis of the symbolic import of the presidential...
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