Hard News: How a thing happens
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Gio's latest post on this is brilliant. Thanks, sir.
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Oh thank you.
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Sacha, in reply to
I owe you at least a beer
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Sacha, in reply to
one of those fancy Welli ones that require a mortgage
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That's a nasty rumour, most bottles at Hashigo Zake cost less than your average black market kidney.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
But I don’t think he was justifying the episode at all. More explaining the conditions that allowed it to happen.
And the more I think about it, the more relevant it seems to me. It’s astonishing that no one at any point gathered all the hosts together and talked about boundaries. But the simple fact is, there was no one there to do it. Even if it had been a matter of, as Bill Francis said on Mediawatch (and that Mediawatch show really annoyed me, tbh), just promptly making the gesture of taking the morons off air for a week, that would have helped.
Mediaworks does have pockets of editorial leadership – notably at 3 News and Campbell Live – but it seemed there was just nothing going on at Radio Live. And the entire company has suffered as a result.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Thank you for referencing Keith's post on free speech. I had for gotten that one.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Gio's latest post on this is brilliant. Thanks, sir.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
And the more I think about it, the more relevant it seems to me. It’s astonishing that no one at any point gathered all the hosts together and talked about boundaries.
True, but FFS isn't there a point where you just shouldn't need a memo not to be a wretched arsehole? Back in the day, I think we settled boundaries for my slot on Public Address Radio over coffee and cake: "No defamation suits, no contempt of court and remember to keep the language time-slot appropriate and BSA code-compliant." I was really thankful for the level of trust you showed me (and the awesome folks who'd apply course corrections when needed), and hope I always lived up to it.
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Russell - I must correct you it is not:
Dumb and Dumber
but "Dumberer and Dumberer".
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