Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to Steve Barnes,
they are lost customers
No, it's not a zero-sum game; they just switched back to buying mainly singles. Performance and merchandise sales stay strong and licensing for soundtracks and suchlike grows.
The 'other side' of that story is the RIAA and their fellow travellers trying to persuade copyright legislators that the sky is falling and pulling figures out of their arses to do so.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
The heritage advocate they had on the RNZ interview (didn't catch her name)
Site text updated, no audio yet. It was Anna Crighton, Chairperson of the Canterbury Earthquake Heritage Building Trust Board.
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It is the job of leaders to ensure they have access to adequate information for monitoring and adjusting their team's performance. Obviously tough in a crisis but you can't just rely on what senior managers are telliing you. Neither do you have to spend lots of your time at the coalface.
What I would expect is a focus on having the right systems and processes in place, including those for allocating resources fairly. Still no straight answers about how that was done, even though otherwise there's widespread praise for the job done.
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Herald offers obligingly misleading headline - "No desire to bulldoze Christchurch - Brownlee".
Story doesn't have the best quotes form the Radio NZ interview, sadly, but you get a taste of his thinking here.
Mr Brownlee said he believed the focus that was being placed on heritage buildings when thousands of people's lives had been disrupted by the earthquake was "undue and unacceptable".
The debate around their preservation was "premature" he said.
For many buildings that had previously had protection orders on them, that protection was somewhat irrelevant, Mr Brownlee said, because the prospect of either getting them up to a code where they would be safe to re-enter was "simply not realistic".
But not premature to knock em down, of course. So 'realistic'.
The heritage advocate they had on the RNZ interview (didn't catch her name) pointed out that international standard practise is for assessment teams of heritage experts as well as CD engineers to review damaged buildings. Why not pay for/ask for an influx of those experts like we've done with everything else?
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Brownlee on Radio NZ right now (link available later): just told Kathryn Ryan that the "we" who make the decisions about which buildings go or stay are all those who have agreed with him. When pressed over whether that meant him or government being the decision-maker then, said the question was unfair.
He also has a really good understanding of heritage architecture restoration because he was the head of the Riccarton Bush trust when they grappled with that. Makes some sense amidst the clangers.
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The recording industry came down hard on those that interfered with its profitability
You mean customers who decided not to continue buying albums? Mr Grigg has provided the supporting evidence here many times.
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Lest we forget, here's the 2009 Media7 show featuring Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman (from about 3 mins) telling us his approach to the portfolio, about shaping national identity and having a national broadcaster.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TVNZMedia7#p/search/3/-EQ4AjEzvYc
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You have MySky and you still watch crap?
Crap can be fun. Information is only one function of television but like all the others it has been affected by the other forms of communication, media and entertainment that have emerged. I don't think it's controversial to say that many people have a different relationship with "news" thsese days.
A TV producer was telling me recently (doesn't happen often, don't worry) that most drama is now made for a core audience of middle-aged women - much like fiction books have been for years. The other demographics have either largely taken their interest elsewhere or are harder to pin down using the old tools that the industry is familiar with and so are treated as secondary markets that are less explicitly engaged.
It's a perspective that surprised me and others may have more to add/subtract. I certainly looked at the Almighty Johnsons in a different light.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to uroskin,
The TVNZ 7 programmes worth saving could find a home on Stratos
That might solve distribution but not funding their production, would it?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
City Vision? Free carparking and cutting spending.