Posts by Russell Brown
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Is it time to close this awful week with a reprise of Russell’s introduction to us of Mavis Staples’ “You are not alone”? Feels like it might be as apposite as it was then. Can’t find the link. But can remember the chorus.
Open up this is a raid
I wanna get it through to you
You are not alone.Good night guys, and thanks.
Good call. Mavis is here.
And also here, on Later with Jools Holland:
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to nzlemming,
Also, NatLib attempts to archive the entire NZ Web on a more-or-less annual basis. They recognise that legal deposit doesn’t really work online, so they harvest all .nz sites and those they know about in the gTLD space, like this one. Just so you know…
Yes. I don't even know exactly what they do, but I recall giving permission for it.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Jolly good, have one for me. And I shall have one for you.
Deal.
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Re: Jim Hopkins. Couldn't make head or tail of it either, really.
But a commenter named Curmudgeon typed "Jim, you're an inspiration," so it touched him. Jolly good.
Oh look! It's wine o'clock!
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And I don’t know anyone, least of all me, saying otherwise. Parker really can’t win, can he – because there were plenty of people accusing him last September of cynically media-whoring the last quake into a second term.
I was among those who felt he was making some electoral capital out of the job in September -- but this time I think he's been superb. It's a communicator's role, and he's doing that very well.
I gather the chief of the British S&R team said on RNZ today that this is the best-managed disaster response he's ever seen. With the caveat that I'm 1000km away and I don't really know anything about this stuff, it seems hugely impressive to me, too.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Andi,
(NB: HMNZ Canterbury flight dispatchers … can you hold off on chopper flight’s while I’m having a dump in the garden. Thanks.)
Lol.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Deborah,
Great to hear from you, Matthew, and many thanks for telling your story.
Indeed. It's worth noting that this site is archived by the National Library, so stories told here will be collected there for people to read in decades to come.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
At that moment he was doing his job, and his job was to take pictures, be our eyes. An editor’s job is whether to use those pictures or not, and how sensitively and in what context
Exactly. A camerman or photographer's job is to see through his lens. The difficult judgements later are to be made by editors.
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Up Front: Ups and Downs. And Side-to-Sides., in reply to Lilith __,
Honestly, with the giant chasm in my street I thought there was no way they could turn the water back on until it was repaired.
I'm not even there, just reading about how messed-up the ground is, and I still don't fully understand how they do that so quickly.
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Hard News: Some time last week, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
Agreed. She and Jason Webley both left me with the impression they’ve had plenty of practise playing unruly spaces. And I could hear her at the back. An interestingly old-school set of skills for an internet celebrity
And yet, as I said, very well-suited to the new world of flashmobs and ninja gigs. She's really expert at making things happen around her.