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Craig Ranapia

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:16:04 +1200

I’m not sure who these plenty of people are you’re referring to – please illuminate (I’m being serious here, I have no idea).

Not here – you’re better placed for local media gossip because (unsurprisingly) most media outlets don’t exactly play up their own lay-offs. But it strikes me as…

Ken Martin

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:49:19 +1200

Good blog. I might start watching TVNZ news again if they employ hacks of this calibre. Re John Armstrong venting his spleen: in the sunset of his career, has he started taking nasty pills to ginger up his spiels? Petty is not a good look!

Hebe

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:09:39 +1200

there are plenty of senior political journalists on the same rung of the career ladder as Armstrong who’ve been laid off

Also, unless this has been happening in the couple of days I’ve been in Sydney, I’m not sure who these plenty of people are you’re referring to – please…

Steve Barnes

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:25:30 +1200

When you feel like a nail everything conspires to get you hammered.

Sacha

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:03:53 +1200

You know you posted that on a blog right?

You should hear what he says about builders.

Rob Stowell

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:46:11 +1200

there are plenty of senior political journalists on the same rung of the career ladder as Armstrong who’ve been laid off (or strongly encouraged to jump first) by newspapers with a “sinking lid” – i.e. they’re just not replacing people who leave, especially if they’re expensive mid- or senior-grade reporters.…

Steve Barnes

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:37:08 +1200

You know you posted that on a blog right?
Yeah but Damian's a good cunt eh?

;-)

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:13:16 +1200

These people are often referred to as Cunts.

You know you posted that on a blog right?

Steve Barnes

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:18:42 +1200

It still annoys me that people don’t know what a “Blogger” is, especially if they is one.
The word Blog is a contraction of “Web Log”, a page of HTML linking to other web pages you have been looking at. The purpose of the web log is to inform others…

Bart Janssen

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:01:09 +1200

serious and nuanced

To be serious. The correct response to this problem is to come out and declare that your employer (The Herald) is failing to provide the resources to the the job properley. It would have been to correct to respond to the criticism by saying ...
"you are…

Damian Christie

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:12:10 +1200

there are plenty of senior political journalists on the same rung of the career ladder as Armstrong who’ve been laid off

Also, unless this has been happening in the couple of days I've been in Sydney, I'm not sure who these plenty of people are you're referring to – please…

Damian Christie

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:10:52 +1200

That needs a slightly more serious and nuanced response than “Harden the fuck up, whiny bitch.”

As someone – Russell? – pointed out, if you've got time to write a tourism story while you're there too...

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:38:38 +1200

You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.

Sure you can. I don't know if you've been keeping up with the media news, but there are plenty of senior political journalists on the same rung of the career ladder as Armstrong who've been laid off (or strongly encouraged to…

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:24:16 +1200

the conference is quite deliberately in ski season

It is said, when Frank Lloyd Wright was told his roof leaked over someone’s desk, he erplied “So move the desk” ;)
also sad, sad that you need the ski season to attract you Science types to enhance the Science.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:52:08 +1200

... have them out in Stadiums in the fresh air!

Heh, Queenstown in winter might be a bit of an ask.

And yes the conference is quite deliberately in ski season so we can attract overseas speakers.

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:48:23 +1200

just don’t tell Health and Safety or they’ll ban conferences.

Just ban Conference Centres and have them out in Stadiums in the fresh air!

Bart Janssen

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:42:01 +1200

everytime I travelled overseas, I came back with a chest infection.

Same here. Sitting in an air conditioned lecture theatres with people from everywhere in the world carrying every virus in circulation ... just don't tell Health and Safety or they'll ban conferences.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:38:06 +1200

I wouldn’t describe it as a holiday, but as a life experience it beats 3 days in the office.

Yeah that's it exactly. The trips are hard work. And sometimes you don't perform as well as you'd like for various reasons (giving a good talk when your body is telling…

Danielle

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:30:07 +1200

Oh wow, I never knew that! Fantastic. It's like the ultimate "missing the lyrical point" edit, too.

Simon Grigg

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:45:58 +1200

Never discovered whether the same thing happened here – those were the days when NZ actually pressed lps locally...

Happily no, although a few short years earlier EMI did provide this edit to the NZBC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoKjVQm5d4

Worth heaps now.....

Islander

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:40:21 +1200

Kia ora Damian – far as I know there wasnt any video done at the time (I was in USA doing a tour associated with the Mobil Pegasus prize and only(especially !)Spiral collective were in London…the only news contacts with ANZ I remember were radio feeds, with the exception of…

Damian Christie

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:10:04 +1200

...Actually it may have been London Bookshops. So at least it looks dated!

Damian Christie

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:09:26 +1200

@Islander – I was going through the archives the other day putting together "This Week in TV History" – it's the anniversary of that prize you won, you know the one... ;) So I pulled up the archive material and all it was, was some bloody boring video of the…

Islander

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:01:46 +1200

’ve been on many a work overseas Jolly.

I spent over 15 years (1983-1998) doing that kind of stuff – and greatly appreciated
the opportunities, experiences, and sheer ‘getting to know some of our world’ – especially when my mother was accommodated with me (publishers et al quickly realised that…

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:57:16 +1200

Same is true in Science, travelling to conferences is tiring, sitting through boring seminars is … but you get to goto another country and meet some amazing people and some boring ones and some who are both.

You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.

Sorta. It’s quite a…

Damian Christie

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:24:32 +1200

You’re not a prick Damian

Ha, thanks – but I think I was a prick long before I was a blogger!

Damian Christie

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:22:16 +1200

You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.

I've been on many a work overseas Jolly. Most of my own making, in one way or another. Most recently I went to China for three days, most of which was spent in the back of cars cruising from one side…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:11:24 +1200

Just for my eyes, initially.

mark taslov

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:44:21 +1200

+ Cr*cker :o

Bart Janssen

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:27:58 +1200

I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.

Needed saying.

Same is true in Science, travelling to conferences is tiring, sitting through boring seminars is ... but you get to…

Jdrinnan

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:09:29 +1200

You're not a prick Damian

Sacha

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:03:33 +1200

In politics it has become especially overt

Yet without transparently declaring the bias.

George Darroch

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:52:31 +1200

A few weeks ago I saw many photos from friends posted to the Pacific Island Forum, having a great time in-between pointing their microphones and sitting at their computers. Not that I'm criticising; there are plenty of photos on my Facebook of me having fun in tropical locations while doing…

Graham Dunster

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:51:37 +1200

I bought the album in Sydney when I was there in 1978 only to discover that the pressings had omitted that immortal first stanza. Never discovered whether the same thing happened here – those were the days when NZ actually pressed lps locally...

Paul Brislen

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:31:29 +1200

Surely that's "Bl*ggers, Pr*cks, Ars*holes..."?

Sacha

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:13:54 +1200

links welcome

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:03:46 +1200

Students in my big first year course are creating blogs about a media issue, instead of conventional essays. Not a remarkable shift, but a useful one. Saves a couple of trees, if nothing else,

Tristan

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:31:48 +1200

as long as it wasn't thier write arm..../giggle

Graeme Edgeler

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:53:48 +1200

I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.

Needed saying.

Hyperbole is the worst thing in the world =)

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:31:56 +1200

I read it as a tribute to Ian Dury:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM

Paul Williams

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:29:37 +1200

I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.

Needed saying.

Hebe

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:25:44 +1200

Fucking wonderful headline: wish I had written it.

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:12:48 +1200

I find it, as Russell is fond of saying, “useful”.

Goddamn bloggers pointing out everyone's stylistic tics.

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:12:48 +1200

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Craig Ranapia

Ken Martin

Hebe

Steve Barnes

Sacha

Rob Stowell

Steve Barnes

Kyle Matthews

Steve Barnes

Bart Janssen

Damian Christie

Damian Christie

Craig Ranapia

Sofie Bribiesca

Bart Janssen

Sofie Bribiesca

Bart Janssen

Bart Janssen

Danielle

Simon Grigg

Islander

Damian Christie

Damian Christie

Islander

Russell Brown

Damian Christie

Damian Christie

Geoff Lealand

mark taslov

Bart Janssen

Jdrinnan

Sacha

George Darroch

Graham Dunster

Paul Brislen

Sacha

Geoff Lealand

Tristan

Graeme Edgeler

Russell Brown

Paul Williams

Hebe

Russell Brown

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