Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't recall seeing it in coverage of disasters anywhere else
Drew lots of comment as part of all Premier Anna Bligh's media conferences in the recent Australian floods. Agree it's good we're seeing it here at last.
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Credit where due - TVNZ to launch audio description service for audiences with impaired vision. Only Coro Street to begin with - see example clip at link.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Moz,
The coroner mentioned in her first televised speech that local coronial staff had experience from the Boxing Day tsunami identification process and suchlike. I can see how that might be quite different to crush injuries from an urban earthquake and to USAR work in general. Seems we do send people to other places though.
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
if it were widely known amongst policymakers and other economic agents, it would have been recognised in some form
You're possibly conflating 'know' with 'act'. Deciding which information gets acted on is a political process. Economists are not immune from that.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Matthew Poole,
a country that doesn't even have internationally-deployable USAR assets
But parties like the Police and the Coroner get exposed to similar international events, don't they?
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to George Darroch,
I don't think a culture has been sufficiently imparted into the police, or council. I don't know whose failure has led to this lack of socialisation, but it should be quite clear that in a situation like this that NZSL is not something to be tacked on but a crucial part of the response.
It's far broader than those parties. Right from the top, it's often just lip service (if you'll excuse the expression) and when challenged, handwringing excuses based on resources (read: prioritisation).
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
I’m taking a stab at what you mean by environmental limits – perhaps an example of considerations that we can see in hindsight but were not taken into account previously.
Say, biosphere constraints - known for decades but ignored by most economists in favour of assumed perpetual unlimited growth in resource usage. Still going on and not just a matter of "better information" so much as the right sort of information to be heard by unwilling ears.
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
Lay people love to say that economists don't agree but fail to see that disagreement is actually useful in highlighting what the underlying assumptions are.
I'd suggest that's more a function of the profession's lack of transparency about those assumptions - and it often seems to have some pretty big ones such as that people always make rational decisions or that economic growth has no environmental limits. Being challenged a bit more now, certainly.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to st ephen,
you just answered your own question
don't believe I did
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Apparently, Deaf Aoteroa had been working through government channels, to no avail. The result was Deaf with no idea of what information was being imparted at the media briefings.
Exasperated, a Deaf woman facebooked Mayor Bob asking why couldn't they organise something.
NZ Sign Language is one of this nation's three official languages. Why on earth should anyone have to beg for it to be part of publicly-funded functions like this?