Dumb and Dumber

but "Dumberer and Dumberer".

True, but FFS isn't there a point where you just shouldn't need a memo not to be a wretched…

And my take on the whole sordid affair.

And the more I think about it, the more relevant it seems to me. It’s astonishing that no one at any point gathered all the hosts together and talked about…

Great story! And just like the CCP, firstly in its cackhandedness – an approach bulldozer-like in its subtlety, bald-faced denials even when confronted with evidence – and secondly:

It was established that instructions were issued by the former Post Master General to put 1ZB off the…

...is not normally quite that drastic. It would more likely take the form of government or party officials (often leaving it unclear precisely who) ordering that their broadcast be cut, they not be allowed on any radio station perhaps for a certain period, perhaps forever and ever amen,…

In that thread, I made the observation:

__What’s been meted out to Willie & JT isn’t censorship. Proper censorship would be if Willie & JT got press-ganged away to a dimly lit room, and got the waterboard treatment or…

Indeed. It goes to show they're not always bulletproof as they think they are. The age-old…

Same. Frustrating to behold the dimness of its proponents in the Dimpost discussion.

I find the free speech angle ludicrous. And frankly it's been voiced by a number of people who are clearly worried about what might happen next time they say or do something misogynist themselves.

Onya, Gio. The abusers can’t swallow the fact that ad boycotts do actually get results. If they whinge about censorship, they’ve obviously never been to Gitmo Bay or Siberia.

I must say, I haven't read many of the comments online, but the emails I got were overwhelmingly of support. Some just... I don't have words to describe what they have meant to me. And while there have been a few downright abusive ones…

Anyway, it's a sad fact that even a moderate, principled and well-reasoned…

TVNZ defends executive after cracks at Auckland hit a nerve

I'm big at work at the moment about how things going digital shouldn't be about transferring from one to the other (straight analogue to digital), they should be about enhancement – how does digital make things better.

So a…

While Facebook – or should that be Rapebook? – is quick to take down perfectly normal pages about breastfeeding mothers…

A few years ago, I was with a Facebook group called The Watchers who were working on taking down rape-enabling pages. After many complaints to Facebook, we were getting nowhere.

I started targeting…

But even with a band converter, all the stations are in the wrong place.

bonus

When the FM spectrum was deregulated and sold off years ago, it sold for well below market valuation, to…

For the broadcaster:
– not having to pay for spectrum
– reaching an audience not limited by geography (and being able to tailor ads to the individual, though this doesn't happen much if at all yet)

For the listener:…

As far as your aspirations for growth go, on the one hand, as far…

I guess in an age where there are probably reasons to have internet in cars anyway for any number of other reasons (both useful and ominous), it (a) means it's unnecessary to install a separate reception device-instead you could…

Not limited to a specific spectrum and better quality spring to mind. Also cost of broadcast – not having to pay for access to the FM spectrum would remove a barrier to entry.

I'm not a radio geek so…

But I agree with you: what…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrNDnU6PPk

On other threads, we have generally agreed that Slater’s word is not to be…

Bravo!

Yeah, but if the government leased one of the mainstream TV channels to a pr0n broadcaster, they'd make loads more dollars, possibly.

I guess FM broadcasting as it exists now has only a couple…

That's true. I doubt we'll see advertisers actively and pre-emptively withholding their ads from his pending return... to MediaWorks, unless there's guaranteed good publicity for doing so. To be fair,…

Like how Cunliffe regulated Telecom, you mean?

I think too often we forget that businesses are made up of people. Like when I emailed…

I, for one, happen to be ultimately proud of my 69th-ranked blog. Take that, Rodney's Aviation Ramblings! Nobody cares about your numerous photos of various aeroplane models landing and taking off from Wellington Airport! :-P

But they're also the people who pay tens of millions of dollars for the use of spectrum. Their view is that that buys them the right to choose how they…

There's a continuum of what's acceptable, ranging from the BBC standard (mostly polite, balanced, clear differentiation between broadcasters and politicians – we don't have this in any NZ media) through to blogs/LPFM which just have to stay legal. This roughly reflects their use of…

Yes, precisely. I came quite quickly to the conclusion that the only use of those statistics is to track one's blog over time. In fact I sort of planned it…

I'm going to do my spiel about this. Bear with me, or not. It’s incredibly boring.

During the David…

I understand company loyalty, and I understand natural defensiveness – I've done both in my time. But…

Mitch's politics are sometimes dreadful. But I think he'd have twigged sooner to…

Perhaps. But on Monday night he was doing talkback on Radio Live, and describing these events as like a "witch hunt" and "McCarthyite" (if anyone wants confirmation, audio may…

Top of the table…

The media and advertising world will learn a lot from this exercise... or they could do a Rudman

I am the Wellington blogger cited in this New Zealand Herald story
(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11151911)
about the appalling treatment by Willie Jackson and John Tamihere of a
young woman they interviewed on their show last Tuesday and who was a
friend of victims of…

Yeah, I think this goes right back to the rise of US pol blogs like Daily Kos and Firedoglake and Little Green Footballs, in the last years of the Bush presidency. NZ politics bloggers started seeing these blogs as role models. They began listing other pols bloggers in…

I doubt however many of the advertisers contacted by blogger Giovanni Tiso had heard of his unranked blog

An unranked blog! This sounds so cool, like Giovanni is living outside the law. I knew that this blog ranking site existed, but I had no inkling that being…

It’s also home to Graeme Hill and Wallace Chapman, who do great work. I think it’s worth persisting with, but the last thing they need is more of the…