Posts by Russell Brown
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OnPoint: Other People's Wars, in reply to Paul G. Buchanan,
Hager editorialises a bit too much to my liking since I do not share his ideology
He did that a bit in The Hollow Men too -- not everyone regards economic neoliberalism as axiomatically bad -- but there, as, it appears, here, there can be little quarrel with his claims of fact.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Louise,
I absolutely support honest, no holds bared reviewing to keep us all on our toes, but please don’t make blanket assumptions that your experience at one or two is going to be indicative of the whole.
Thanks for coming by and making yourself known, Louise. I’ll certainly check you guys out at some point.
It’s a bummer for you that some of the other North Wharf places are damaging perceptions of the area as a whole.
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More after I actually read the bloody thing.
Feeling it. My copy arrived this afternoon and is is sitting by my keyboard staring at me. 439 pages, including 73 pages of endnotes in tightly-leaded six point type. By next week.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to BenWilson,
But I bet Leo would hate it with a passion. "Everyone is eating dog food!!".
Lol.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Which I’m kind of surprised by, because N&S has done a lot of medical/social issues reportage over its twenty five year history – and has actually done a pretty good job over the years of avoiding medico-disaster porn that’s too often the level health journalism exists at.
It did appear that quite a number of the critics had skipped the "reading the article" part.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
Sorry Russell – I didn’t mean to derail the thread, even though it looks like that’s exactly what I’ve done. My point was that telling a guy he’s ‘mansplaining’ is analogous to telling a women she’s ‘being hysterical.’
Fair enough. I'm feeling a bit grumpy this morning, I'll grant you that.
Perhaps we could all get back on the rails. I think the Media7 discussion went reasonably well, and I did put Sacha's "framing" question to Donna Chisholm.
It's probably worth noting that although things have got a bit tetchy here, the North & South people are reeling from the venom expressed in the Facebook discussion of their story. As I said in the original post, it's a topic that provokes some strong emotions.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to BenWilson,
Thanks for showing us the error of our ways.
My pleasure. Because I don't work in the city, when I go looking to eat out, I actually shop around, ranging across the entire city. Albert St is by far the best food court in this town. Only problem, it's so popular that it can be hard to get a seat.
They're different places. The Albert Street place isn't called Food Alley for nothing. The food, pricing and range are better than Ponsonby, but it's crowded and sometimes not all that pleasant to be in. OTOH, the Ponsonby food hall is a great place for families in the evenings, and has oodles of natural light during the day. Also, the Vietnamese stall is great.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to DCBCauchi,
They’re always looking for the agenda, trying to ‘fit it into a pattern’.
Wow. Given what you’ve just written, that is truly astonishing.
I'm sure if I invite to go off and find another forum in which to offer your lofty commentary on everyone else you'll merely regard your point as proven, but ... really.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to DCBCauchi,
And then you all patted yourselves on your backs once more, about what good listeners you are!
Yeah, us and our appalling lack of self-knowledge. Ross is a top guy, but it was patronising to attribute difficulties in breastfeeding to an incorrect attitude, and it was always going to get a response from women who knew damn well it was not, in their own experience, their problem.
Frankly, I think the only point on which we agree is that "mainsplaining" is a crappy neologism. I would be quite happy if people just didn't use it.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Perhaps I can influence Waterfront Auckland to put in some meal carts - you know, the little caravans and trailers where you could get a few tofu sticks with peanut satay sauce or a wee burger or an icecream. That certainly would help with the clearly huge demand down there.
I actually think that's exactly the kind of thing the quarter needs. There's space and demand, and it would distinguish it from the other waterfront areas.