Posts by Sacha
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Noice
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adulated en masse
and ululated
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If they fund broadcast content that doesn't get broadcast, or is seen or heard by almost no one
Could be the "broad" in broad-casting that's the issue?
And that distinction between a development role and a distribution one, if I'm reading this correctly. Maybe some funding responsibility needs to be transferred to the MIC (which might also keep some mainlanders happy).
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Can PA give us special Craig tags?
For creative filth, perhaps - to hide the utterances from zealous filters
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I just saw previous posts about Broadcasting Act and NZ on Air mandates. I merely pointed out that there is nothing in the Act about how NZ on Air should act or what decisions it should make, or how it should make them because the Government (ie the Ministry for Culture and Heritage) is excluded from that in section 44. Sacha, if you want to disagree with my reading of the Act while not coming up with any interpretation of your own - that's fine.
Your material was being quoted as saying the Act provided no mandate at all. I disagreed with that, because to me "mandate" does not mean detailed delegations or prescriptions about how to pursue a task - it just says which objectives are to be pursued and often what the structural arrangements are. The Act certainly does that.
I believe my own interpretation of the issues is consistent enough if you have time to read what I've posted (though I'd rather you were busy working with culture in the studio than talking about it).
audience fragmentation. This actually highlights how NZ on Air is so out of date with its thinking, and why there is a case to be made for pursuing smaller niche markets, not the mass market
Totally agree - and have been doing so for many pages. And I agree that the direction in the Act about considering "audience" does not force NZ on Air to go for the biggest one or the blandest - but there are other pressures at play there.
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Robbie, you said
Without the handout and having to rely on your own talent might mean you'd produce a better quality work without having to compromise to commercial interests to satisfy the funding benefactor
To me, it seems clear you are talking about someone compromising their existing sound because of funding - not whether they were in some experimental niche beforehand.
concord dawn were cloned poo
Cloned from what? Conchord Dawn's sound had an influence on their genre worldwide (which is hardly a big market) but you'd be hard-pressed to convince anyone who knows much about drum n bass that it was a "commercial" sound, let alone that it was because $50k of local funding corrupted their delicate artistic sensibilities. I'm delighted that the genre got a share of the funding at all.
Much prefer constructive suggestions from you than cheap slagging of performers.
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compromise to commercial interests
Conchord Dawn commercial? Don't make me laugh
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he seems to be well up on the actual govt docs
Oh cmon, just read the parts of the Act linked here
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The Broadcasting Act does not provide any mandate for NZ on Air.
Wrong
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'Eccentric' tories could hold Cameron to ransom (Independent via NZ Herald).
Mr Cameron may yet confound his detractors and become prime minister, by persuading other parties to help install him in Downing Street - but still he will not escape criticism from within. In a climate where every parliamentary vote, even the future of his Government, could depend on keeping his MPs happy - or at least quiet - the Conservative leader and his whips will have to work hard to keep a lid on discontent.
He might find himself making unpalatable accommodations with some of the least attractive elements of his own party - and other parties in his coalition - to keep his government alive.
I think they may be talking about some of Craig's "Earl Grey Teabaggers".