Posts by Alfie
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I've edited court footage from a number of high profile trials and being able to use only the "first 15 minutes" of the day seems unnecessarily restrictive and outside the usual rules imposed on court coverage. It would be impossible to cover the day's proceedings accurately and this "rule" is certainly not the norm. But of course it's entirely up to each individual judge to interpret the rules as he/she sees fit - even inventing rules like this which are are just plain silly.
The TV3 editor was supplied with pool footage shot by another broadcaster. When you're up against a deadline and looking for cutaways of Banks watching proceedings, it would be easy to grab a shot like this without paying regard to the time of day it was recorded. If I was cutting the story would I have used a shot of Banks chewing his earwax? You bet I would have - but that's probably my personal feelings about the man coming to the fore. When you're claiming the moral high ground, it's best not to consume your own bodily excretions in front of TV cameras.
As an aside, today's Herald has an excellent cartoon on the subject of Banks' ear wax.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11262217
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Agreed. If Banks was silly enough to pick out ear wax his and eat it in front of a TV camera, I'd say run with it. Disgusting habit!
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Key has finally responded with his usual ridicule and a claim that John Campbell is some sort of "conspiracy theorist".
"Trust me. There's nothing to see here folks... moving right along."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10068990/Key-knocks-Campbell-conspiracy-theories
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Last night's Campbell show was an excellent piece of investigative journalism. I hadn't realised that Jerry Mateparae was replaced as GCSB boss after only eight weeks in the job to make way for a hand picked elite candidate. Campbell proved convincingly that John Key lied about his prior knowledge of the Dotcom raid and about his relationship and meetings with Fletcher leading up to that appointment.
The Campbell Live story showed just how far the people who run our little country are prepared to go to cosy up to US corporate interests. "Terrorism" is a convenient excuse to explain the way our laws have been perverted and our rights trampled upon.
I expected to see followups this story on our mainstream media front pages this morning. But there's nothing! Are we becoming so blind as a country that an exposé of this level of corruption can simply be ignored?
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Cracker: The Colorado Experiment, in reply to Steve Curtis,
Hey Steve... you missed the one very important reference which sums up your argument succinctly.