Posts by Joe Wylie
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Legal Beagle: Update: Into the River, in reply to Danielle,
I just finished the book the other day...
Likewise. Couldn't help but wonder if it was the portrayal of a flatulent Christian phys-ed teacher that tipped McCroskie over the edge.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Rob Stowell,
And goodbye Tony Abbot. Ozzie comics may rue the day. We're unlikely to ever see your budgie-smuggling sentence strangling eye-rolling like again ...
The conventional wisdom about Turnbull used to be that, despite his naked ambition, he'd never be PM because he was "too shiny". There was a nice cartoon in the now-defunct Bulletin showing Peter Costello, John Howard's then deputy and presumed heir apparent, standing drink in hand at a social gathering. From out of frame a voice can be heard saying "They say I'll be Prime Minister when I grow up", prompting an angry Costello to ask "Who invited Malcolm Turnbull?"
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Sacha,
cupcakes for africa
Get a bunch of 6-year-olds to do the song for free.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Steve Barnes,
It appears TV3 is suffering from Glucina...
Sorry, glaucoma.Could this be the word you're looking for?
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Hard News: Friday Music: A Life of Stories, in reply to Shaun Scott,
And- my god, what a great gig that poster advertises. Fantastic line-up.
A soundtrack for David Mitchell's excellent image:
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Am i taking these theories of media agenda setting, and the TPPA cover up to seriously?
It’s not the media setting the agenda, rather it is the government. I haven’t found the coverage by MSM on this one necessarily bias...
Reckon you're right. There hasn't been the blunt pushing of an agenda on this one like we've seen with some other issues, though that may be because Key's enablers had become complacent about the need for a media Plan B.
I'd be surprised if Ryan's media studies don't cover the theories relating to news values. As a minor example of such, here in Chch the Press appears to have at least one staff member on standby to deal with THE burning issue of the moment.
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Access: Just think of the children, in reply to Hilary Stace,
They also have a pretty terrible history of eugenics which they really only started to confront about two decades ago.
I assume you're referring to this kind of thing. As you say, the retreat from that ghastly orthodoxy has been under way for some time, but the scale and diversity of the material gathered in its name is staggering. While it would be comforting to assume that it's all been relegated to the past, the winding down appears to be still under way.
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Muse: Worthwhile Literature, Worthless Newspaper, in reply to Kumara Republic,
who'd be the Johnny Rotten/Joe Strummer of literature?
There's no lack of YA-lit contenders out there, Melvin Burgess has been doing a pretty good job for around two decades now. If they got out more, Family First would probably have kittens - or more properly puppies - over his hilariously great Lady: My Life as a Bitch, which lives up to its title in every sense.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Songs of Ennui, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I note the ''Deloitte'' building is already looking wobbly, is it held up by Bankers Trust?.
O ye of little faith....
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Hard News: Friday Music: Songs of Ennui, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Any takers?.
Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce CEO Peter Townsend - "I can smell the money" - would probably be a goer if he wasn't so flat out predicting next year as a sure-fire cert for the impending boom. Only problem is he's been doing it since 2011.
No doubt you're familiar with the tales of fake aircraft and landing strips built from local vegetation by cargo cultists, in an attempt to attract the real thing. Canterbury's cranes are a bit like that, only less substantial
Meanwhile, where the light of environmental democracy has been quietly extinguished, things are booming for some.