Posts by Sacha
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Trying to make sense of the story, Marty at Te Standard speculates that if Heatley had fessed up to general credit card misuse then Brownlee would have had to go as well.
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Of course nothing else of any significance is happening either here or overseas.
And didn't it work a treat on the tv news last night? Both channels. As if ACC changes, tax rises, unemployment, Canterbury water, mining national parks, education standards, RNZ funding, etc, weren't going on at all.
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If you want some nice wine (more accurately, nice drug) with your dinner, fuckin fork out for it yourself.
I believe that's what his staff had been telling him for some time. Still, entitled masters of the universe like this current crop can be rather hard of hearing.
Must be even harder to grasp it's wrong when you look around and see others getting away with rorts on the scale of English's housing one. And your leader saying it's only human to "make mistakes". Ooops, I slipped and accidentally charged my personal entertainment to the public.
An honourable person wouldn't have done it in the first place, so no brownie points from me for fessing up on the day the figures get made public anyway.
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Talking out one's arse?
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the astonishing news that ... the leader of the Save RNZ Facebook campaign is a media studies lecturer who worked for Labour for a bit?
Jake Quinn has even had a blog for some time. Hardly a secret agent.
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Do I have to do everything?
Hey I did dig those annual report stats out earlier.. :)
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when you look at the way the staff costs are structured (the KPMG report is handy for that), RNZ's are two-thirds production. I'd wager that Radio Live spends a higher proportion on presentation.
One argument I haven't seen so far in favour of RNZ Concert's bias towards old Euro classical music is the cost of running its production components (likewise, allied culture spends like NZSO).
Orchestras are expensive music machines compared with electro, folk or hip-hop ensembles, and there doesn't seem to be a substitute. Perhaps the private sector could step in to run a radio station, but would they fund performances and recordings?
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Chris Knox talks about records that have influenced him, with a little help from a friend.
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Call me elitist if you like
I think you're doing just fine on your own, Paul.
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We already have (a), as I've pointed out a few times now.
I'd go with (d) - a nice distraction, pretending that the amalgamation process is paying the slightest attention to what the Auckland region's citizens want or need.