Posts by Russell Brown
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David Slack has Waybacked the old pages. Awesomeness ...
http://web.archive.org/web/19961222213105/http://speeches.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19970104175221/http://speeches.com/hardnws.html
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Anyway, just a heads-up that Jose Barbosa and I are traveling to Christchurch for the CEISMIC launch and will look to get a full show's worth of stories while we're there.
I've already found recent discussions here very useful -- we're talking to Dean Kozanic from The Press about the media access issues -- and I'd be interested in other media-relevant tips and observations.
We also have a meeting booked with Roger Sutton.
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Hard News: Meme Syndicate, in reply to Grant McDougall,
“Meme Syndicate” – ho,ho, yet another nice music pun for a post header Russell. One day I will trawl the PA archives and make a list of all the music puns you’ve used. It’d make a hell of a playlist, I suspect.
Indeed! And to think I thought "I wonder if anyone will get the joke?"
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
You could argue that the Herald has been supporting that style from this government throughout the last few years (notably the ECan takeover), which contrasts with this editorial’s stand in favour of people making decisions for themselves.
That's because the editorial is largely about justifying the the angle of the paper's own news stories.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to ChrisW,
I’d hazard a suggestion that wouldn’t be all that far off the Ken Ring model of earthquake risk communication.
I did wonder.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Sacha,
I thought their refusal to so so was a live issue?
They're required to release the players, but I hand't realised that in this tournament some clubs have tried to either buy or bully players into not playing at the RWC.
That's disgusting. The British rugby press should be flaying those clubs.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
So why did they have students doing sports massage because they couldn’t afford their own staff Still I stand corrected. And what about all the sympathy for the $10000.00 fine that John Campbell raised that I saw you Russell in the queue for. Was that just opposition to the fine?
Like Sacha said the Island unions are not wealthy -- although they do get a share of the RWC profits.
The players themselves do pretty well from their club and Super 15 contracts. But that's also why teams like Samoa and Tonga look different -- and stronger -- at world cups: the European clubs have to release their players.
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Auckland Council determined not to be caught short this time:
The Auckland Council will today make an urgent application to the Government's Rugby World Cup Authority for permission to use Aotea Square and Marsden Wharf as fan zones on Sunday night.
Big television screens to show the game live would be set up in Aotea Square, the civic heart of Auckland, as a back-up for fans turned away from Queens Wharf and the overflow options at Captain Cook and Marsden wharves.
The Marsden zone would hold 4500 people and council officials want to increase the maximum crowd size at the Captain Cook wharf from 10,000 to 14,000.
I can only presume McCully's lost interest.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
they’re all well paid professionals
Samoa? Tonga? Doubt it.
The entire Samoan squad are professionals, most in Europe where the pay's very good, and nearly all the Tongan squad.
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
The worse small talk starter ever (and one I use distastefully often) is "And what do you do?" How the hell do you answer that?
"Well, I do lots of things."
I still haven't worked out a way to say "I've got a TV show" without sounding like a wanker ...