OnPoint by Keith Ng

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  • Michael Fitzgerald,

    Craig
    I hope you are right & I've over cooked it.
    I read The Press everyday and despair a little.

    Monday 11June The Press front page here's a quote from the boy racer shot by a slug gun and hit just above the eye.

    "I've got a 15-month daughter and I would hate to only be able to see half of her for the rest of my life." - that is cruel Journalism.

    He's the victim in this he doesn't need to be shown up as an idiot as well.

    I'm all for "Publish & be Damned" Just playing my part.

    To my little knowledge of Japanese culture the wife holds the purse strings and gives hubby an allowance he can go on the Razzel with. I was most impressed by this level of civilisation.

    And yesterday G/Dad got his last medal from WWII/J-Force. To be still kicking after being shot on 2 continents and drinking from a brewery blown over by the bomb in Japan is not a bad innings.

    Since May 2007 • 631 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    Kiwi seduces Japanese housewives

    It's certainly a headline to conjure with, although I'd have thought New Police Poultry Porn Scandal rather than Yellow Peril

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    I hope you are right & I've over cooked it.
    I read The Press everyday and despair a little.

    Oh, I look at the De-Press and despair a lot - though admittedly it doesn't take much. :) I think Mediawatch has been on a bit of a roll lately, doing some measured and thoughtful pieces on this, the 'Murder Energy'/Muliaga media circus and the flat out bizarre love-in of David Bain. This might sound like a back-handed compliment, but the world would be a much better (and better informed) place if the Mediawatch crew decided it was time to close up shop.

    IMO, I don't think the item in general, or Thomson in particular, were letting Coddington off the hook or beating up on Keith. (As I've said way up thread, if Keith and Russell come to anything with a 'hidden agenda' they really suck at it. And I don't blame them, or Ms. Mok, for getting a little fraked off at being accused by Coddington, basically, of deceptive character assassination.)

    Craig, do you know that "Japanese housewives" are a long-standing and not inaccurate shorthand for Japanese retail investors? It's not Yellow Peril at all.

    I do now... but sweet Bubby Jeebus, I could have done without the image of Mrs Suzuki getting Lady Snowblood on Bollard's ass, before tottering off to a love hotel with the Kiwi. (Then again, putting a Belgian dentist into that scenario isn't a pretty thought either.)

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Keith Ng,

    Thompson was fine - I think both he and Colin mistook my use of "punitive" to mean "vindictive", and Thompson was just saying that he hoped I can take it as well as I can dish it out, which was a fair call.

    As for me being punitive, I think that was justified. Free press means freedom from government censorship, it doesn't mean freedom from consequence. I speak only for myself, but part of the reason I went after N&S and Coddington so hard was because I felt they needed to be held responsible for their work, since they won't take responsibility for it themselves.

    If Coddington finds it hard to find journalistic work after this, if this remains an ugly blotch on Langwell's legacy, and if our efforts have contributed to this, then I make no apologies - these are fair, just and natural consequences of their actions.

    (Must... stop... fighting talk...)

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 543 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Thompson was fine - I think both he and Colin mistook my use of "punitive" to mean "vindictive" ...

    See!? It's the gathering tide of Asian ... literacy.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Oh, I look at the De-Press and despair a lot - though admittedly it doesn't take much. :) I think Mediawatch has been on a bit of a roll lately, doing some measured and thoughtful pieces on this, the 'Murder Energy'/Muliaga media circus and the flat out bizarre love-in of David Bain. This might sound like a back-handed compliment, but the world would be a much better (and better informed) place if the Mediawatch crew decided it was time to close up shop.

    Heh. You have a better backhand than Roger Federer.

    But yes, I reckon Colin Peacock is owning lately.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Michael Fitzgerald,

    Have a wee listen to todays 10am interview with Canty Police Sandra Manderson on Nat Radio.

    She identified only one ethic group for crime - Asian Crime.
    She managed to be pc on many other points but obviously the alo vera only goes so far.

    Although she may go on the beat in Christchurch - she doesn't wear her police number when she does.

    And the real reason she annoyes me - she mumbles and doesn't clearly announciate her words.

    Since May 2007 • 631 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Russell:

    Ouch... that wasn't backhanded, it was hitting myself in the face with the racquet. (Memo to self: Be nice more often, and you'll eventually get the hang of it.)

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    japanese housewives

    Apparently they have (or had) door to door stockbrokers in Japan. They were the backbone of Nomura's rise to success.

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

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