Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: In the Mosh Pit at the Orchestra, in reply to JacksonP,
Seriously Jackson, I just love that shot. It's got that wtf?/gorgeous quality that Yan Petros seems to be permanently plugged into.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Shame Nicholas Lynch can't spell your name, but at least he is directing folk to your Porcupine Farm blogspot...
Mr Lynch has also approvingly linked to the likes of Ann Coulter when it's taken his fancy.
BTW if you look closely at that Gudrun shot of the uncomfortable Roger Sutton peering from the people mover, you can spot former After School host Ollie Olsen, who'd shown up in the vain hope of gaining an audience to advocate for the quake-munted citizens of East Chchch. Seriously Roger, that's only one notch down from snubbing Santa Claus.
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Does anyone know why the CERA event depicted above was held at the Press's newly revamped building? Or why the Press, which was as pleased as hell to host Sutton's earlier stage-managed questionfest, referred to the location of Thursday's event simply as "the launch venue"?
I know we live in strange times, but am I the only one to find this a touch weird? I'm guessing that the Press rents the venue for these kind of occasions, but the lack of transparency kind of rankles.
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"Slave in the midst of battle" - just brilliant Jackson.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat animals.
It seems to be a presidential thang.
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Having lived in Australia way back when Whitlam abolished the license fee, I can't help but feel that it's an anachronism. The argument made back then was that it was a hangover from a time when simply owning the means to receive TV - and radio before that - was an expensive option.
Once licenses were abolished the ABC adopted the 8 cents a day slogan, and has used it ever since. I believe that it's now closer to 7 cents for every Australian. If it can be done from general revenue in the country where Murdoch is more entrenched than anywhere on earth, couldn't we manage something similar? Or are we hell bent on becoming the Dirty Digger's personal third world?
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Kumara Republic,
John Howard tried to kneecap the ABC because he thought it was full of liberal intellectuals - but thankfully failed to do so. Where did the ABC succeed where NZ failed? Was it because of Australia having an upper house?
Critical mass and geography? Though critical population size is probably the reason that Australia was able to retain a federal senate. Much as Howard would have loved to repeat the savage cuts to public broadcasting of the Fraser years he never had the numbers, and was forced to do his worst by less direct means.
While Howard's portrayal of the ABC as elitist found ready support from his commercial media allies, there was a lot of ingrained RARARA (Regional Rural & Remote Australia) support for Aunty ABC. Even some of Howard's cabinet didn't take too much persuading to reminisce on air about their childhood memories of being ABC Argonauts.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to DexterX,
A few days before, Monday I think, I heard Mr Key talking to Marcus Lush and suggesting that NZ's crisis - likely present of future couldn't tell – the lack of Money to pay Rest Home Workers a living wage could be solved by importing nurses from the Philippines to work in Rest Homes.
As if we aren't already plundering the 3rd world to care for our elderly.
From the two Filipina rest home workers I know of who decided to return home rather than stay on in shaky Chch, I suspect that NZ's a borderline prospect anyway. -
Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Ken Sparks,
I think those of us who believe in public broadcasting need to start campaigning for a stand alone channel, independent of any commercial TV company, similar to the Radio NZ model.
While I'm not up with the details, that sounds broadly similar to Green Party policy.
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Speaker: Damien Hirst: the dollars and sense?, in reply to Sacha,
I rather wondered if Reuben might have been the same person who offered a kiwi for sale on TradeMe a few years back. When he offered to recapture the fly he'd smuggled into Hirst's show I was reminded of how when people asked about the kiwi's present whereabouts they were told that it was loose in the backyard that bordered the suburban Wellington bush, but not to worry because it was "easy to catch".