Posts by Russell Brown
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We're back with cats? Colin likes to rail the rail ...
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to 3410,
Len Brown appeared to be saying that SkyCity told him that they were donating to both himself and Banks.
Big call for Len here, then. He's clearly been looking to not rock the boat lately, given the bullying that has come his way from central government. But if he's asked a direct question, he has no call to lie.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to 3410,
Yes, really.
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Completely batshit. But possibly in a clever, distracting way.
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
is that the Furtive Paul Rose?
I believe so! Welcome to the club, Paul!
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Simon Grigg,
That said, I haven't bought a magazine for a year or more.
We subscribe to Vanity Fair and the New Yorker -- they arrive in the post 1-3 weeks after US publication. I can't recall what TNY costs, but we just renewed the Vanity Fair sub and its about NZ$5 a copy.
And you can enter your subscriber number and get the issues free on publication via the iTunes store.
Conde Nast knows what it's doing.
Sadly, it's impossible to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly from NZ. If it was possible, we'd do it.
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
- the only people who buy/read print magazines are those to old and/or stupid to work the internets
- the recorded music industry is in decline and has shrinking ad budgetsVolume wasn't for sale -- it's a free street mag -- and it seemed to be well-read within its target market.
And while recorded music sales might be on a long decline, live music has never been a bigger business in New Zealand than it is now. There are multiple promoters, ticketing agencies and venues and a striking number of tours. Volume also provided a cost-effective advertising option for recorded music sales.
That said, it has been suggested to me that the execution of ad sales could have been smarter, and that the healthy-looking sales didn't deliver as much revenue as they should have. But I don't know if that's correct.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Peter Calder,
The estimable Mr Fisher, of whom I am sure John Banks speaks very highly, is now a Herald, not a HoS, staffer.
I stand corrected. Also: I'd hate to have Fish on my case the way that Banks does now :-)
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to TracyMac,
I think they could have used FB more to drive traffic to their "real" site, wherever it might have been.
They did, but it wasn't a website so much as one of those PDF-viewer things.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Alec Morgan,
Banksie may well squiggle out of the 50 ‘big ones’ on a technicality. But as ‘Rodders’ discovered after eventually coughing up for his UK gal pal trip, his political career was effectively over in any event.
And this seems likely to be the real issue for Key. He can't get rid of Banks as things stand, but Banks' continued presence is going to be poisonous.
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The Prime Minister on Breakfast this morning:
But Key said he asked Banks if he had acted within the law and received an assurance that he had.
"He either complied with the law or he didn't. He said he did - I have absolutely no reason to doubt him," Key told TV ONE's Breakfast this morning.
"In all the experiences I have had with him as a minister he has never misled me."
However, Key said he did not ask Banks if he asked Dotcom to split the $50,000 in two. "That's not my job to do a forensic investigation.
"I accept him at his word [and] if people don't believe that, they're free to test that with the police.
"The same Labour Party that criticised me [over the Teapot saga] I'm sure will be trudging off to see the boys in blue this morning."
Ahem.
