for the uninitiated

The original

And the fridge magnet.

I made u an award. But I eated it

laffed, alot, when i read that.

for the uninitiated

I made…

And congratulations of course, well deserved.

I recall there's a quote somewhere of Eugene Ionesco, sounding pained about having somehow become…

congrats russell. but robyn's both right and wrong.

wrong because hard news had ever-so-slowly become part of the msm. many of us remember the guerilla bfm daze.

Quite right, of course. The reason I started hard News (apart from my chronic need to editorialise) was that I felt people like…

Che has correctly pointed out that the spiky headed multi-substance fueled louts that pogoed like there was no tomorrow have now become the establishment tut tutting at the inexplicable activities of youth ( its always someone else's kids)
For me, the attraction of the hard news days…

wrong because hard news had ever-so-slowly become part of the msm. many of us remember the guerilla bfm daze.

but, right. because, as they say "u iz in ma internets, taykin all ma awads"

Looking at the winners of the Qantas Media Awards website section, all of them seem to be websites run by professional writers, trained journalists.

It's not the grass roots blogging of the olden days. It's mainstream media.

Not that there's anything wrong…

plus it's great the scoop network as a group did so well.
hopefully it brings you all more sponsors and the ability to truly live off…

The Korean governments reaction was to block all acess to blogspot.com for a period of about a week or so and maybe other blog sites though i can't recall…

When that happens the Herald (Indy, Irish Indy, Cape Times, etc) will become "the free newspaper that…

Some of the harshest critics of the Qantas Media Awards are the very people who've just stuffed a hunk of perspex in their handbags — and what's an award show without some luxurious angst about how utterly meaningless it all is?

But.. if Public Address Radio is up for…

I think that's because a huge amount of their inspiration and material is coming from bloggers. Just a feeling, no evidence for that.

I agree, I've seen a few items in NZ papers this last 18 months or so that seem to have taken their direction from blogs, this one…

I think that's because a huge amount of their inspiration and material is coming from bloggers. Just a feeling, no evidence for that.

Then they came for the washing-machine makers and the reporters reported nothing, for they were not makers of washing-machines.

Then they came for the reporters...

Good coverage of the protest at:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1130899

The Herald website's report on Simon Collins' protest was so priceless I had to save it and share:

Media protest at Qantas Awards

May 19, 2007
By Simon Collins

Journalists protesting about contracting-out plans at newspapers and magazines owned by APN took to the…

I might be biased, but I thought the introduction of internet categories to the Qantases this year added real interest to an event that has always been about "old" media.

*ahem* Indeed, and congratulations.

But,,, I do hope we're going to see a few less columns huffing and puffing about…

congratulations and thanks Russell & crew for PA.

Yes Sir.

Congratulations to the Scoop guys for being up there in both the Netguides and Qantas awards.

But most importantly congratulations and thanks Russell & crew for PA.…