Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The new riot reporter, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Having just read this, late as usual, can I ask RB, what is the significance for her title? Wasn’t her name or profession good enough? It felt like a dish of fluff to describe her as such. Does it matter one iota if she is lesbian?
I usually say she's a writer who grew up in NZ, or just my friend Stella -- who cringes a bit when she sees ""lesbian writer Stella Duffy" being used as a "job description" -- but it's relevant in this context because she writes as who she is -- and, more to the point, because she had some bloody choice words earlier this year for the men who were outed pretending to be lesbian bloggers.
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Hard News: The new riot reporter, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
On another note entirely, I notice that Paul Lewis has tweeted this discussion, so hopefully it’s getting a few more sets of northern-hemisphere eyes today.
He seemed quite flattered by the attention, but it was warranted. This is fascinating territory.
The interview was excellent. We'll use about five minutes in the show, and put the whole 17-odd minutes online. Hopefully the video has arrived on the satellite by now.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Shall we talk about some of the school closures in Wellington today?
I think Craig was talking about Auckland. Wellington is plainly messed up. But even there, people are are live-tweeting their ascents to the hill suburbs.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don’t know if anyone outside the media was getting apolexic. There was more “wow, kewl” shit going down, and I don’t know about anyone else but I really need a bit more child-like wonder in my days.
Yeah, quite. I was actually quite glad I was able to share the snow glee with a few other people. It was short, but it was fun.
I did think Campbell Live struck a nice tone with it last night.
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Hard News: The new riot reporter, in reply to Gregor Ronald,
These have been the words of every suppressor of free communications for centuries.
Quite. She seemed unaware of how counterproductive her repeated assurances were. I was shouting at my new Rugby World Cup television when I re-watched it last night.
(Tip: the $170 Apple TV device is a brilliant solution for watching YouTube and Vimeo on TV, especially, but not necessarily, if you have an iPad. I'm looking forward to iOS 5 letting me mirror anything on my iPad screen.)
Anyway ... wish me luck when I'm interviewing Mr Lewis at 6am tomorrow.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Your next challenge: a pun on "Stelvin enclosure".
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
don’t put all your ergs in the one basket
Even by your standards, Ian, that is a corker.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Is that the warmest it’s got today?!
I think so.
But there's this odd sense of weather not quite happening today. Vast black clouds from the south are about to end a couple of hours of sunshine here, but it's still not raining, hailing or snowing.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to JLM,
No such drama in Auckland -- it's just damp and cold -- but it does look like we'll break yesterday's record low peak temperature. It's 5.3º at the moment and I can't see it getting any warmer from here.
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Up Front: Something For Your Snow Day, in reply to Sacha,
A pictorial preview
Triggering.