Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
Amazing bullshit from the NBR today for those who have the stomach and the subscription. Apparently it is “outrageous hypocrisy” that Len Brown does not live in an apartment. because that’s what happens in the Unitary Plan – everyone will be forced to live in apartments!
Seriously? What a silly argument.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Sacha,
TransportBlog addressed the Herald’s blatant lack of balance in its coverage of Auckland’s Unitary Plan process.
One of my own comments in that thread:
Interesting also to see people pointing out the centre-right's confused position on the Unitary Plan. Don't they want to encourage development and strengthen property rights?
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Hard News: Spread the Noise, in reply to ChrisW,
“Sanguine”? Did you mean less sanguine rather than more, in the sense of sanguine as optimistic?
I meant "guarded". In fact, I might just change it to "guarded", so at least I know what I mean.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Even if that’s an accurate paraphrase of Paula Gosney’s views, wouldn’t it have been appropriate to subject some turbo-charged rhetoric to some calming fact-checking and context? Again, if Bernard and The Herald want to editorialize they’re perfectly entitled to do so. I just prefer they do so while keeping a line between news and editorial.
Indeed. No one seems to be covering themselves in glory here.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Just to note, Goudie didn't write the post in question and I've corrected that part. But what possessed him to describe it as "brilliant" is a mystery.
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Hard News: Satire's shooting star, in reply to Chris Waugh,
It's down for the time being over a complaint about the way one journalist was represented. After discussions, it's being amended and will be back soon -- hopefully at the same URL.
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Hard News: Friday Music: No longer…, in reply to Dave Patrick,
The Trick Mammoth stuff is really nice!
Last night was the first time I'd seen them and while they had their haphazard moments, I kept thinking : "well, that's a good tune".
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Hard News: You can Roughan but you just…, in reply to Mike Graham,
Doesn’t that contradict the first paragraph I’ve just quoted?
Yes. Yes it does.
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Hard News: You can Roughan but you just…, in reply to Rodney Hide,
I again appreciate your support for their release.
And I really appreciate your constructive engagement Rodney, especially given that I was a bit tart about your column.
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Hard News: You can Roughan but you just…, in reply to Konrad Kurta,
Right there with ya’. At least people still seem to remember John Banks’s, ‘Britomart will be a white elephant’ quote, though that didn’t stop Aucklanders voting him in again for another round of, ‘say no to everything’.
The Banks thing was hilarious. He not only changed his mind once he'd become mayor, he sat waving from a car in the launch parade down Queen Street!
The first, failed CitRat Britomart plan is a saga in itself. Aside from its bizarre financing arrangements, it was mad on an engineering level. A five-story deep hole and water being pumped into the harbour for the next 35 years, all so the council could claim it was being built at no cost to ratepayers.