Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Samuel Scott,
HDU tonight in Wellington. We have a baby sitter, we have airplugs!
I prefer earplugs. And yes, I'm definitely taking them to the KA tomorrow night.
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Danielle,
3. She is such a wonderful pop songwriter that I find it difficult to say anything about the music but get all swoony. That shit is right in my wheelhouse.
I suspect you would have liked Indie Bic a LOT. Like I say, let’s hope it’s not the last of that format.
Meanwhile, pop kids, you get to hear exactly the same lineup playing Laneway as Kody’s new project, Opossum.
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Anonymous Author,
Loving this now and will be loving it even more live tomorrow night.
Just bought my ticket.
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I don’t see why The Herald or any other paper is obligated to reprint the entirety of any list that Phil Goff or anyone else comes up with. That would make them the mouthpiece of Labour, not National. I hope they pick and choose what they print throughout the campaign.
I think the odd thing was that they headlined the story with the “top 10 points” or whatever, then the story spent quite a few words waffling and not delivering on the headline. I felt badly served as a reader,
You don’t have the publish the list as gospel – indeed, you clearly shouldn’t – but it’s worth acknowledging all the claims. Ideally, you’d also seek to verify them, as a service to your readers. Simon Collins did so with the emigration to Australia claim – which turned out to be true – but the rest of it sort of disappeared. It was really pretty poor.
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Speaker: The Public Broadcasting Imperative, in reply to Stephen Judd,
One thing I have long thought though is that concentrating on things known to have the widest appeal is a bad strategy, in that you lose all the people who had minority tastes that are no longer catered for.
Free-to-air TV would look really different if it did just concentrate on the things that the most people watched,
What actually happens is that programs that most efficiently attract the most viewers in the target demographics required by advertisers are prioritised.
One of the problems with a channel like TVNZ 7 is that it skews older. Older people are more likely to watch public-service TV -- just like they're more likely to vote. Unfortunately, older people are of relatively little value to ad agencies.
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Speaker: The Public Broadcasting Imperative, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Even taken as black humour, that's repellent, Tom. Rather worse that the original crack, I think.
Yeah. Let's be clear: TVNZ still relies on a lot of decent people practising the various screen crafts with a high degree of skill. Fewer of them actually have proper jobs there every year, but let's not be having jokes about killing them.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
Latest poll results suggest a few other electorates might become more ‘marginal’ too.
It’s not the electorates, it’s the list positions.
One thing Labour could have done to prepare itself for 2014 is to promote fresh, new talent up the list. It didn’t.
The fact that it may now lose two of the best-and-brightest selected to appear in its opening broadcast is an indictment of that terrible decision.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Rich Lock,
This thread.
Kicked off, oddly enough, by our resident sports columnist.
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Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Craig Young,
One wonders what Coney thinks about that…
Given that she was strongly opposed to prostitution reform, she quite likely approves.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Sacha,
furious adolescents who hang out at Solo Passion
whiny little pricks, aren’t they
To be fair, it's a rich trove of unintentional humour if you're looking to kill some time.