Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Oh, and here's fifty nine reasons why Michael Laws needs to shut the fuck up.
That's the number of journalists killed this year alone because of their professional activities, according to Reporters Without Frontiers.
Radio Live might want to think about that before giving a troll a live mic.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to 3410,
Tension over “Tea Gate” boiled over through Radio Live airwaves when shock jock Michael Laws told listeners to kill journalists.
OK, so who’s laying the complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority? Even by Laws’ easily tripped tipping point for hyperbolic twatcockery that’s…. well… extreme. I don’t want to engage in distasteful speculation about his mental wellness but it’s damn tempting.
ETA: And yeah, if I’d ever advocated shooting journalists on Public Address Radio I hope I’d have been tired on the spot. Keep it classy, Radio Live.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
does that actually work?
#notametaphorIt works for me, but that may be my old friend the placebo effect. :)
And you quoted this from Lew (who I have a lot of time for) which still annoys me – because there’s real insight mixed in with a load of foofy-tosh.
While I disagree with his assessment, what’s more interesting is how he framed that assessment: as a normative argument about what election campaigns ought to be about, and what “real New Zealanders” care about; echoing John Key’s “issues that really matter” rhetoric, which is precisely what all the National supporters I’m in touch with have been saying: nothing to see here, it’s a sideshow, can we get back to the substance, and all that.
Well, I’d note the irony that Phil Goff would rather like some coverage of Labour’s bulging “goody-bag” this week – guess whoever is advising him doesn’t share The Standard’s confidence that a full-on tea-bagging of Key is a winner. Guess those “real issues” that “matter to real New Zealanders” (as opposed to those much-neglected surreal Kiwis, I guess) matter after all.
And, yes, I make no apologies for being *cough* disturbed that I listened to three hours of Morning Report nine days before the general election and there was no policy-related campaign stories. Why aren’t you, Lew?
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
Feel free to disagree, Craig. :)
Hear that merry clatter? It's the sound of a couple of crushed up paracetamol tablets being stirred into a freshly made short black. It's all I've got right now.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
Feel free to explain why you disagree. It’s the only article I’ve seen that examines the timeline around the recent opinion polls and a certain cuppa.
And does so by drawing a conclusion ("Logically, it can only have been the tea tapes") then making a shit load of assumptions that don't add up to me. OK, I know The Standard has a blatant editorial bias (and a rather tiresome compulsion to spite-fuck David Farrar, which he's stupid enough to reciprocate) but Russell or Keith could manage more genuinely useful analysis in the immediate aftermath of a three day bender.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
Useful post.
I'm not sure "useful" means what you think it does. :)
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm actually wondering how many weeks in a row he'll be allowed to use his paid Herald column to plug his fucking book. Seriously:
It looked even more fatuous (yes, that is possible kids) after reading a useful piece by Mai Chen.which was short on posturing and long on useful information.
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Muse: Friday Fluff: Shelf Life, in reply to JacksonP,
I’m surprised this hasn’t taken off. Too many political dicks on the dance-floor. Whoops. My bad.
Yes it is. :) Only one more week, m'dear. And I like to think of this more as a slow-burner - like most of my cooking. (Thank you very much. You've been a wonderful audience. I'll be here all week.)
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Ian MacKay,
Phil Goff does at least front.
I'm sure there folks in Labour who'd rather he didn't without being fully briefed. And, yes, I don't disagree with your larger point that you expect politicians to *cough* present data in its most favourable light, but it would be endearing if the media did a lot more bullshit detecting. But it's not unreasonable to expect party leaders to be able to clearly articulate those assertions, right?
I don’t think that many would say it’s a legal no-brainer. Most reasonable people, regardless of left or right leaning politics, seem to accept that the legal position is uncertain.
Fair point well made, Mr Parks. Of course, my failwhale there was presuming the Kiwibog-Sub-Standard Acis of Hackery is full of such people. There's not a lot of evidence for that hypothesis.
I suspect many here agree with me that ethically the situation is not really comparable to the NotW-style phone hacking. Not anywhere near.
Wouldn't get any argument from me. As I said, there's many a ethically/legally sub-prime media monkey-shine that doesn't rise (sink?) to that level of general douchebaggery.
All things considered, it would be unethical not to release the tape.
I think that's where we will have to agree to disagree, but that's a difference that can be held in good faith by honest people. Don't have anything new to add to my view on that point.
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I’d like to formally retract my call for a greater focus on policy. It's not entirely fair to expect the media to take policies more serious than leaders who can’t get basic details right without a crib sheet.
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