You are invited to complete the New Zealand Political Blog Readers’ Survey for 2010. This survey is being conducted as a follow up to the 2008 survey which was conducted by Andrew Cushen as part of his Master of Arts in Political Studies from the University of Auckland.
The original survey provided an amazing amount of data about who reads New Zealand political blogs and their thoughts on the medium and its potential. This survey is designed to gain further insights into New Zealand political blogging to inform academic articles and presentations.
If you wish to complete this survey, please follow this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZPWT22T
We would appreciate receiving your response by Sunday, 19th December.
Can we use our fake names on the survey?
And here’s me thinking Spud was your real name!
LOL
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interesting survey – and it demonstrated to me how many sources are available for political news and how important and valuable it is to be able to put views forward directly and easily to Labour MPs (shame trev is so sensitive and censors some posts he does not like)
Some questions a bit tricky to answer – particularly in relation to radio. If I answered it as if I was thinking of Radio New Zealand, then it would be a very different answer than if I answered it as if I was thinking of local radio stations or talkback stations.
Like Redneck FM?
Good to see you back Bea 
Merry Christmas 
Agreed, Bea. Ditto for NZ newspapers & TV news compared with some overseas ones. I assumed I was responding about RNZ & NZ produced TV News and newspapers.
Although blogs are very useful and often provide advance notice of things happening, television channels with their massive resources are often able to uncover the big stories and expose rorting and hypocrisy and mis-use of taxpayers money. For that reason TV continues to play an important role in informing viewers of what is happening. TV3 is especially good at doing this.
The last time I looked at something like that, it was worded like a marketing survey, something to sell to the advertising industry.
No chance of the ghost being a lab rat
I’m just waiting for the doco on the hardships of Billy living so far away from his family, rotting in Dipton, while they enjoy their city living.
Trev – better ban spud for troling and trying to divert the subject away from the central issue here – which is blogs and the media. Spud – I think this is the thread you may be after.
http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2010/05/09/triple-diptoner/
Nice try Monty, but yer mate? Trevor doesn’t need to do anything, docos are part of our media. I do regret one thing I did today on the blog
But my comment was on topic.
Thanks for the survey opportunity.
So, Phil Goff’s apartment rort?
A private investment you say? So why is a Parliamentary staffer being used to find tenants?
2011 election won’t be measured by how much National beat Labour. But by how much worse the defeat was compared to National in 2002. And the Greens will dance on your grave.
You’re obviously trying, however poorly, to make a big hitting point here, Michael.
Relax, you’re amongst friends, just type what you want to say and be done with the amateur whistle blower routine.
Can’t wait to see his OFF TOPIC comments deleted Al1ens
Can’t wait to see Labour MPs and staffers look themselves in the mirror and say “****, what have I become”
I have completed the survey, but was a bit disappointed with the way some of the questions were worded. For example, how trustworthy/accurate are political blogs? Only one possible answer can be given, which implies my answer applies to every political blog.
I trust some blogs far more than the general media, but other blogs I trust far less than the general media.
Anyone can post anything in their blog, there is no check of accuracy.
Some blogs that I read regularly I find are accurate and trustworthy, but other blogs I read regularly to see what the other side are saying are full of absolute rubbish and stupidity. I suspect a person with the opposite political views to me would find my trustworthy/accurate blogs to be rubbish and stupid, and my rubbish blogs to be trustworthy and accurate.
susan.. we will just have to hopr that the people doing the analysis are competent and unbiased.
can’t believe there are still people around that consider tv news to be worthy of notice though..
The poor saps don’t know any better
I agree with many comments here, especially Monty’s observations and some of Susan’s.
Given the constraints of some of the answers, and the difference between RNZ an BFM and that Close Up type programmes our now internally known as “shows” rather than current affairs programmes, what use will these answers be?