Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
There is actually a line between being a persistent interviewer, and making it more about your ego than eliciting information. Too often, Plunket and Wilson make it all about their rep for being “tough” – though, like Russell, I’ve heard the more civilized working hours at ZB have chilled him out a lot. Which is no bad thing.
He had some terrible mornings on Morning Report along with the very good ones. But what Plunket does do well -- and it's a key interviewing skill -- is think past his next question. He's good at structuring an interview to get to a point.
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Ben Austin,
Well, regardless of the relative quality of NR, their online / podcast service is fantastic. I listen most days by way of Google Listen on my Phone and it is so good, it almost is like I am still listening in NZ
You have Richard Hulse to thank for the quality and smartness of that service. Dude is a hero.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Andre Alessi,
I misread that and thought for a moment we were talking about Juha Saarinen.
Me too!
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
I’m loath to agree with Joanne Black but a few weeks ago in the Listener she too noted Mercep’s gutlessness and quoted a few lines of his interview with Kyle Chapman (or some other guy distributing antiAsian leaflets around Auckland) and it really did show Mercep in a poor light.
That was a really unfortunate interview. Mercep needed to take charge and put Chapman in his place and he didn't.
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
I don’t think the government’s lack of appearance on RNZ is because they’re ‘scared of being held to account’ or whatever – its just a strategy focused on reaching persuadable voters, which means a focus on non-news outlets like Breakfast TV, womens magazines, sports radio and so on.
But don't they amount to the same thing? Ministers are accountable, that's the point. It's not just an opportunity to campaign to "persuadable voters". That's an election campaign.
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to John Morrison,
but Ferguson who is on Morning Report just now does have formidable interviewing skills
Agreed. She seems like a real find.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I’m not dissing anything, just arguing that a) M.I.A. is alive and well and b) the last thing you could say of our culture is that it produces too few mashups.
It's also worth noting that the sample was registered and Strummer and The Clash got their share as composers.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
But yeah, God knows we all make mistakes. I'm not perfect, nor is anyone I know. (I also feel really bad that I appear to have turned Russell's post into a critique of feminist discourse.)
Not at all. It was my cunning plan all along ...
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Emma Hart,
You have to give people room to take Megan's second option. (Yes, yes, I just giggled smuttily.)
Oh, puh- lease!
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to recordari,
Is it a sign of my privilege or my ignorance that this 'cis' is new to me? I suspect both, but yeah, maybe I need to spend more time in gender debates in order to jargon up a bit.
See Cisgender. The concept seems clear enough, but the recent unpleasantness at the Hand Mirror stemmed from someone genuinely not knowing the term and hence being bullied and called names by people who did know it.