Posts by Russell Brown
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
(you know, it would actually be easier if the site just linkified links, like twitter, rather than all thet [ [ xxx | yyy ] ] business. ).
Did, er, what now?
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to uroskin,
BBC Newsnight proved again why it is the best news programme on the planet.
Hell yes. Friday night's Newsnight was just superb.
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And this ...
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Ha ha ...
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I also think politicians have to held to account for their part in creating, enabling and cynically exploiting this toxic media culture
Some of them, I think, not all. Tony Blair would clearly have made a pact with the Devil and convinced himself he was on the side of the angels.
Cameron, I suspect, had a deeper and more explicit arrangement with Murdoch than we yet know.
Many others were simply cowed into silence. Which makes Tom Watson's campaign all the more admirable.
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Islander,
I did not understand the joke.
I still do not.
You words did not make sense to me.I just feel -slighted.Don't worry. It was just a light-hearted observation on Ben’s part about the joy of sneaking off and doing something his flatmates disapproved of. There was no slight.
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
England was quite happily breeding squalid press barons and media outlets with the moral probity of pox-ridden whores long before Keith Murdoch got his first tabloid in the colonies.
Indeed. The history of the politicians and the press barons in Britan is extraordinary.
But there has been something particularly troubling about the Murdoch era. Other publishers have had their political preferences, but Murdoch's role as kingmaker has been something else. It has been like bullying a nation.
Hearing those MPs finally feeling able to criticise NI really brought that home to me.
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
I was trying to invite myself over
Oh, alright then. So long as you promise not to cause any trouble :-)
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Um, a lot of those events were happening anyway. the page for Wellington features World of Wearable Art, which is on every year.
Which was what I actually said. But even those which would always have happened have been brought into the same timeframe and given an extra boost, perhaps to, say, offer a sense of occasion and affirm that there is more to New Zealand than rugby and dairy.
Ghastly, I know. But there you are.
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
I quite like the idea of Jackson or Russell, for example, having rugby parties where there are people who do not much care for the game. Sort of a civilising influence if you like.
I know you don't mean it Jackie, but it is quite insulting to suggest that those of us who do follow the game are uncivilised. In my experience, it's not the people who are interested in the play you want to worry about.