Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
There’s a scandal there alright, and it’s not about what type of door but about people who rarely seem to come through them to get the work done.
I look forward to Jordan Williams' furious press release demanding an amendment to the Local Government Act mandating the removal of work-shy Councillors... But no breath will be held.
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nzlemming, in reply to
May not mean anything, but somebody on Twitter has noted that the reporter’s by-line (Cherie somebody) has been removed from the online story.
It's still there.
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Perhaps all is not lost at the Herald.....
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news-cartoons/news/article.cfm?c_id=500814&objectid=11367770
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nzlemming, in reply to
Amongst these photos
Those fly ones are just wrong, yo.
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Fine infomercial here for a product that could help monitoring the Mayor, and any guests.
The TU should stump up the funds.
Smartpipe!
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Wait- on the front page of the Herald there are calls for recall elections. On the basis of 'secret rooms'.
The Herald. Gutter journalism since I don't know about a year ago. Before Granny was a Tory from on high, now she's down and dirty.
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Sorry, I told a lie. There is not one BS Len Brown story on the front of the Herald web page. There are two.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Why do people support (by buying) the Herald when that is its standard of journalism? Is it because there's no better alternative?
It's had a monopoly on the AKL market since the Auckland Star folded in 1991. The ComCom needs to sharpen its claws. Yesterday.
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Gareth Swain, in reply to
It's had a monopoly on the AKL market since the Auckland Star folded in 1991.
Hmmm, so people really do just sit back and accept shoddy journalism because there's nothing else? Why, though? Even if there is no easily accessible mainstream source of unbiased, rigorously researched, properly edited news, wouldn't it still be better to stop buying the Herald?
(Sorry for harping on this... I'm strangely intrigued by it. Once again, I hasten to add that I'm not fishing for an argument; I really am ignorant about this, being so far and so long away.)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Hmmm, so people really do just sit back and accept shoddy journalism because there’s nothing else?
Because a lot of good, important journalism comes with it. Fisher, Nippert and others. Excellent magazine writing by the likes of Alan Perrott, etc. As vexing as it might be, the Herald is probably the best paper we have.
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Bevan Chuang has posted her exchange with the author of this unfortunate story, seeking comment.
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Gary Young, in reply to
And I'm in a bar in Queenstown where the door to the bathrooms and the adjacent wall are covered in wallpaper depicting shelves full of books. Apparently this is not an uncommon theme in NZ interior design.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
There are two secret hidden sex doors in the Oval Office
I was fairly sure there were three. Also, John Key has had a secret tunnel built from Premier House to the nearby US embassy. They did this at the same time as painting the gates grey.
Based the work I’ve had done, I’m pretty sure that $10k is a very reasonable deal to convert a room that isn’t a bathroom into one that is, in a high-rise block and to code.
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Gary Young, in reply to
"Why would the Herald publish a beat up"
Because, I suspect, there are those in the journalist pool who would really like to create New Zealand's version of the Fox News Network.
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Wow. And wow again.
The editor – not a newbie intern, but the fricking editor – says, of Auckland councillors on Twitter:
“Maybe they’d all attend more if they had their own hidden rooms to muck about in.”
So, just to clarify this extraordinary mindset, when asked about councillors’ attendance she acts as their defence spokeswoman. Because they are not Len Brown, she is entirely uninterested in holding elected representatives to account. And – incredibly – is happy to admit it.
Ladies and gentlemen, our city, our newspaper.
ETA: Twitter source, editor's account.
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Gareth Swain, in reply to
Now that makes sense. Ta!
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Because a lot of good, important journalism comes with it. Fisher, Nippert and others. Excellent magazine writing by the likes of Alan Perrott, etc. As vexing as it might be, the Herald is probably the best paper we have.
And also, boycotts are much more effective against radio and TV slots because of their 24/7 nature - as Willie & JT found out the hard way with the Roastbusters controversy.
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Kracklite, in reply to
New motto: “The Herald: justifying Jafa stereotypes since… what was the question?” >:)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
The editor – not a newbie intern, but the fricking editor – says, of Auckland councillors on Twitter:
“Maybe they’d all attend more if they had their own hidden rooms to muck about in.”
And from her former colleague, Tony Wall, also to me:
"oh for god's sake enough of the moralising - it was just a good old fashioned yarn !"
This really is some bullshit.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Also, John Key has had a secret tunnel built from Premier House to the nearby US embassy.
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Sacha, in reply to
moralising
in far too short a supply inside their newsrooms nowadays, perhaps.
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Sacha, in reply to
Mike Moore would disappear down here for weeks – they had to send the army down with dogs and climbing gear to find him.
nah, dangle a lambburger and he'd scamper right back.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
inside the lie bury...
door to the bathroom ... shelves full of books. Apparently this is not an uncommon theme in NZ interior design.
Hmmm,
ergo
it's novels,
but it's not
novel!
very Zen...:- )
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
the Governor speaks...
the Herald is probably the best paper we have.
in Auckland isn't it the only paper you have?
Hobson's Choice is a very Kiwi tradition...
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
And from her former colleague, Tony Wall, also to me:
“oh for god’s sake enough of the moralising – it was just a good old fashioned yarn !”
This really is some bullshit.
Eleanor Catton told a good old fashioned yarn. Victoria University Press marketed it as fiction. Spot the difference, boys and girls.
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