Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Murdoch once part-owned INL (the former owner of the Dom & EvPost) from 1964 but from what I know he never had much of an editorial directive towards it, unlike his British and North American holdings.
Funny you should say that. Back when he was fronting Mediawatch, Russell did a reality check on the meme that Rupert Murdoch was dictating a pro-Iraq War editorial line to the newspapers he owned. In New Zealand, the facts really did get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. :)
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
In terms of cosy relationships, we also have John Key dining out with Warner Brothers execs in Los Angeles. I guess they will expect him to pick up the tab.
So, anyone got any ideas what APN and Fairfax spends on lobbyists and *cough* corporate entertainment? I know Murdoch is a really easy hate object, but he's also too damn convenient in a media market where Murdoch and News International are really fairly minor players. I don't know if I'd be as sanguine as some about the benign indifference of Fairfax Media and APN if their bottom line, or their rather cosy effective print media duopoly, was seriously threatened by government policy.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
it seems like a huge coincidence that he’d antagonise several groups of very powerful, ruthless people and then commit suicide.
Oh, for fuck’s sake, Danyl. I want to take my own advice and not feed idiotic speculation, but is it possible that (shock! horror!) Sean Hoare was suicidally depressed (possibly exacerbated by a relapse) under extreme stress? My sobriety might be a bit wobbly if I felt responsible for 200 people losing their jobs, and looking down the barrel of having my career and life pulled apart.
Meanwhile, The Daily Mail got pics of the forensic team at work and got a neighbour to talk
God, you'd really think now of all times the Daily Mail would try to elevate itself from the sewers to the dizzying heights of the gutter. Apparently not.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Okay. I think this is a case of “putting the worst inequalities first” versus “doing the easy stuff first”. Neither of which approach is “wrong”. And these are all things we want done.
It's also a case of Craig not really caring that much about marriage equality, as opposed to adoption law reform and transgender equality. Which isn't "wrong" either. But just as legislators can walk and chew gum at the same time, the GLBT community aren't a Borg Collective and "we" can advance on more than one issue at the same time?
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Russell Brown,
For the time being, I'm inclined to hang with the more straightforward explanation that he died because he was mortally ill.
So, for the time being, do you think it might be a matter of fairness and sheer bloody good taste to suggest folks lay off the Ian Wishart-esque conspiracy theories? You know, while we're all showing such lofty disdain for the tabloid media it might help not to act like the fuckers.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Hilary Stace,
When is the fall out going to reach NZ?
Should it? While I wouldn't cross the road to piss on a copy of the Herald if its head was on fire, I don't think anyone is suggesting they hack people's phones. Their crass and morbid insenitivity is more old school.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Russell Brown,
And I’d suggest you’ll be interested in the Commons select committee hearing that Brooks and the two Murdochs are about to appear before. It’s live on Sky News tonight from 11.30pm. Yowza.
I'd be absolutely delighted if Brooks showed up with minutes of every "off the record" lobby briefing, every sleazy hit job on political enemies that got fed to her from Westminster. Hell, she's probably going to jail anyway -- she might as well wipe the sanctimonious pouts off the faces of people who were quite happy to let the likes of Ingrahm, Campbell and Coulson run riot.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to BenWilson,
Ben:
Just to clarify: I’m not suggesting we set the clock back to 1857, but I’m rather surprised that the brave defenders of “traditional marriage” don’t. I’d also be cynical enough to suggest that a good proportion of them don’t do so because 1) doing down the fags is a more potent and profitable wedge issue than saying Teddy Roosevelt was right*, and, 2) it’s funny how many folks in the trad-marriage crowd don’t exactly occupy the moral high ground when it comes to divorce, adultery and spawning bastards.
If you’re a moral conservative with a grain of principle, it seems bleeding obvious to me that no-fault divorce (and the erosion of the social and legal stigma attached) is more of a threat to “the institution of traditional marriage and the family” than marriage equality.
That said, I’d like to apologise to anyone who felt I was making light of a traumatic experience in their own lives. It was not my intention, and am sincerely and unconditionally sorry for any offence I caused.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Gee,
I know you’re exaggerating here
Gee: I was being extremely sarcastic. Hypocritical marriage equality opponents like Newt Gingrich deserve all the mockery they get – after all, he “respects the institution of marriage” so much, he’s done it three times and his serial adultery (the third time when his now-wife was a Congressional staffer during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) is a matter of public record. But it’s funny how many folks who scream about same-sex marriage being the Fifth Horseperson of The Apocalypse get rather evasive when you suggest that they should be campaigning to criminalize adultery and make divorces much harder to get. Waaaay too close to home for a lot of these people, I guess. Or requires some intellectual rigour and moral courage fuck-tards like Gingrich and Brian The Bish wouldn't recognise unless it was covered in hundred dollar bills.
Hell, I just want the one civil marriage, and my partner of fifteen years and I don’t have an “open” relationship. So, could folks like Newt STFU now?
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It would also be worth pointing out that when my parents got married, the Republic of South Africa still had the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 55 on the statute books, where it would remain until 1990. It had also been just over five years since the US Supreme Court struck down "anti-miscegenation" laws in sixteen states as unconstitutional.
Think about that.
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