Posts by Craig Ranapia
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And I know television reporters are doing a very tough job under terrible circumstances, but please I don’t really need to be told ever again that people trapped in rubble are “screaming”. Wasn’t really expecting them to run through the Cole Porter songbook.
OK, perhaps I’m being really touchy – and I'm sure every journo in Christchurch is out of their minds with worries about their own friends and families – but this is one story that is quite awful enough without any hype. In a disaster like this it's not only the content of the media's reporting that matters, but the tone.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
TV3 still saying that the hospital has been evacuated.
Radio New Zealand saying repeatedly that it isn’t.
Folks, it's rather important you both start telling the same (and accurate) story. It really really matters.
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Oh fuckity fuck, in floods of tears re-reading text from cousin who quite probably would have been in the Cathedral (a regular port of call during her lunch hour) when the quake hit – if she wasn’t on holiday in Oz. Even the good news makes you cry.
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OK, so who the hell was reporting that Christchurch Hospital was closed when it wasn't? I know in the circumstances confirming reports like that is hard but damn...lives may depend on (mis)information like that.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Sacha,
Same - and knowing this time there are people under all that rubble. Have to be. Upsetting
That's why I've just turned off the radio and television. This time, I just can't see how there won't be, at the very best, serious injuries. Until everyone checks in, I'll just lose my shit at the first picture of a body on a stretcher.
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Holy shit, my TweetDeck "throttled" the #eqnz tag then crashed. Twice.
I know this sounds really self-absorbed, but I'm trying really hard to stay off the phone and CTFD. People will check in when they can, and having a melt down at the other end of the country does nothing useful.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Emma Hart,
Unless the CactusLab guys have got something going with sacrificing ponies to make banned users bleed from the eyeballs or something.
Sssshhhh...
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yes. Credit where due. Free contraception is good.
Free contraception for everyone is better, and de facto sterilizing the poor/beneficiaries may be well-intentioned but still creepy. Seriously, Russell, how do you think you and Fiona would take being asked by a WINZ caseworker if you'd like a chit for subsidised contraception along with your child support?
OK, now I'm done.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think good faith has to be earned, and it’s not as if National doesn’t have a track record in these matters.
And if everything I say on threads like this is going to be dismissed as lying partisan "CraigBot" hackery, I'll stick to chuntering on about arty-farty crap. Oh, well... at least I don't have to bother reading the WWG report (since anything I say is tainted) and instead settle in with the review copy of Ant Sang's Shaolin Burning that arrived this morning.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think it’s legitimate to comment on what we know about it already.
Sure. I don’t have Net Nanny privileges around here, so everyone can talk about what the hell they want until Russell brings out the moderation mallet. (I’ve also long lost the naive idea that folks around here are going to coo and kiss my arse any time soon.)
I just thought Danyl’s bitch was out of order and unfair. A presumption of good faith would be nice.
I've also learned the hard way to be careful about either squeeing or going nuclear on (selective?) leaks, and the more or less predictable spin and counter-spin that follows -- especially when it appears in media outlets like the NZ Herald whose reliability is... shall we say, not something you'd bet your life on. Especially when the primary source is not in the public sphere.
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