Posts by Russell Brown
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Well put. Poverty and Climate change, some parliament has to address these issues for the good of the country. Poverty concern isn’t left or right it’s just a problem we were told wouldn’t be with us in 2011.
On that score I think Key's declaration today that Shearer or anyone else from Labour won't be getting on the new "poverty committee" unless Labour promises confidence and supply to his government is a fairly damning illustration of Key's priorities. I'm quite appalled by it.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Danielle,
I have the company’s promotional ashtray (!), upon which is emblazoned: “Frazer & Smith: Sell Your Car To Us”
Hasn't advertising lost its way since those days?
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Please by all means abuse him for failing to deliver content or the quality of his content but immediately focussing on presentation simply reinforces the very MSM shallowness that we so often decry in these forums.
But I do think he's obliged to have something coherent to say, and to be able to answer basic questions abut his intentions. It was a very poor performance.
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Where’s the Commerce Commission on this? If this happened in America, the FCC would be onto them in a flash.
If this was America, the FCC would have waded in long ago.
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Lilith __,
Because the internet deals in text, it’s easy to forget there are people out there writing it. We can get caught up arguing with the words, and forget about the person, who may not have expressed themselves well or clearly, and who may not mean what we think they do.
The most unpleasant personal trolling I’ve had here – and with which I put up too long – came from someone I realised was incapable of seeing me as a person. Weirdly, it was someone I had known for years.
Otherwise, it's mostly Kiwiblog commenter types who see others as cardboard cut-outs of their political stereotypes.
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Govt may subsidise Igloo set top boxes
Something stinks here. Once again the evil hand of Joyce at work.
Why would we subsidise Sky Tv? we already have freeview, which was made possible by Kordia an SOE.I sincerely hope that Drinnan has this wrong.
The Transitional Access Plan is a necessary measure -- otherwise poor people don't have access to television after digital switchover.
But the idea of using taxpayers' money to buy tens of thousands of decoders tied to a commercial pay TV service (and which won't actually work properly for TV3 and TV4 at this point) -- effectively throwing away the $110m we've already spent establishing Freeview -- is insane.
I should note that I directly asked Chaz Savage whether they'd be going for TAP subsidies at the Igloo launch (where Drinnan was present) and he said no. Even John Fellett seems to think it's a weird idea.
The fact that the government even appears to be even considering this is bizarre.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to dc_red,
He had no content to convey, nor even anything interesting to say,
I thought so too. Very poor.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
many times throughout the working day
Oh, bravo.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
And who would have thought of Peter Dunne as the coiffed white knight of public television?
How ridiculous. He belatedly styles himself as the saviour of TVNZ 7, but then confesses that he asked the government and the government said "no", so he's going to "put pressure on the TVNZ board". Arrgh.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Cry me a river ... we got bloody Steven "we don't need your stinking evidence" Joyce as minister of science and innovation
Suck it up, lab coat guy.