Posts by Cecelia
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No hiding in the bedroom calling for updates
I thought I was the only one!
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Wasn't promising to bring Coro back to primetime an electioneering stunt? Good try, John, but I still won't be voting for you.
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Hard News: Who owns the news?, in reply to Islander,
Good on your mum. I can feel a letter to TVNZ coming on!
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Interesting discussion and I'm not trolling, honestly I'm not, but what about Coro changing to 5.30 and Primetime being devoted to Masterchef Oz. What's that about? Yeah, I know, ratings, but ... sigh.
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Russell Brown,
http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/books/the-kahui-book-is-not-the-real-story/
I thought Celia Lashlie's take on Wishart's book was more measured.
I was shocked by the d'Souza column too. That's why I thought it might be a Christian thing, an affinity between fundamental or born again Christians, Misa and Wishart.
I've always felt sorry for the Kahui parents. It seemed like fecklessness of tragic proportions that caused the deaths, an accident waiting to happen. However, the fact that Tapu Misa follows Ian Wishart's line that Macsyna King was guiltless and "a smart woman" beggars belief.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10746602
This is my personal minor earthquake - that a columnist I admire could sympathise with a book written by Ian Wishart and which is pretty obviously biased. Maybe it's a Christian thing.
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Hmmm
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has been surprising and gratifying for everyone concerned.
Thanks for the link; I've watched one show and will look at them all now. It's heart-warming and very nicely calibrated. I would never have seen it if you hadn't pointed it out.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Jolisa,
Fabulous posts by you and Deborah about privilege. It was Coleridge, wasn't it: "What oft is thought but ne'er so well expressed". A poem, a blog post, what's the diff?
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I see what you mean. Even worse than when I first looked at it a few days ago. I was thinking that the book announcement had touched a nerve in the population and although the reaction was expressed in a irrational manner, it was nevertheless an understandable one. Looks as if I was wrong.
However, Paper Plus was not responding to this violent nonsense was it? Didn't they hear directly from customers as well as react to the Facebook page in its earlier days? The owner of Unity books expressed her own private distaste.
I have always felt somewhat sorry for Macsyna King and Chris Kahui. Lives so out of control ... Such a miserable mess.
Maybe someone clever on this site can analyse the mob reaction. What is causing the semi-illiterate people on the Facebook page to take it over and call for violence?? Mob psychology, or something else?
