Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: What did you do yesterday?, in reply to Luke Williamson,
Is it just me or are a couple of your links broken Russell?
Just you, I think. They're all working for me.
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Capture: Eyes In A City - Gary Baigent's…, in reply to JacksonP,
On the above, I think you could embed using iframe tags in the main post, but not in comments.
There is a growing number of embeddable videos on NZ On Screen, and embed code is provided for all those. Unfortunately, they do not include any video licensed from TVNZ ...
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Capture: Eyes In A City - Gary Baigent's…, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
There is also a short film made for television in 1967, about Gary and his photographs. It's in the TVNZ archive but isn't online. Perhaps NZ On Screen might like to check it out?
Hell yes. Thanks for the tip.
RB
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Scott Chris,
Hee hee. Let's make fun of a stupid person.
That's how it comes across to me. Bullying.
Did you actually watch it?
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Stephen Judd,
OK, I’m surprised, and indeed Karen seems well tough enough to deal with some shortlived media attention. But would you admit that it *is* surprising? It could have gone badly.
Perhaps I’m over-sensitive.
No, I totally get how you felt. But the element of surprise is what makes it such an excellent story. One would of course like to think that if they'd tracked down Karen and she was a vulnerable mess, they'd have left it alone.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I called it four days ago. But what a shabby, repellent thing to do. Whatever Karen really needs, it isn't national media exposure.
Have you actually seen the track? I think Karen's a hell of a lot more robust than you give her credit for. I wonder if HDPA has found her niche with this show.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Sacha,
If you can’t do the job without being a bully or an arse then you shouldn’t be doing the job.
+1
It's not quite that simple. I think it's true that there is a personality type that often succeeds in talk radio and it's an edge one. It's actually not a very normal thing to do every damn day. I still quite often go out after a TV recording or drink a bottle of wine with my curry, just because my mind is whirring. I can't imagine being "on" for three hours, five days a week -- and in Holmes' case, doing it again in the evening.
Iain Stables is an example in music radio. I don't ever listen to his style of radio, but he was hugely successful as a radio jock, especially with young men. People connected with him. Also, a rather lovely man, bipolar and guilty of a few too many acts of senselessness for the good of his career.
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Ah. So tonight, Seven Sharp has Karen from YouTube who wants her $20 back -- in person.
I'm not saying they took the advice about viral video in my comment this morning, but ...
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And there was the unedifying spectacle of his puff-piece interview with “close friend” Tony Veitch in the Herald on Sunday, which doesn’t strike me as a particularly obscure or debatable conflict of interest. (IIRC, Holmes was also *cough* less than entirely candid about giving media advice to his pal, which IMO is a whole other ethical can of worms. If my memory is correct, that should have been disclosed at the very least.) I know Auckland’s a small town, but it’s not THAT small.
I'd forgotten about that. And you are so correct. It ties into what I wrote about him believing that if he felt something, it must be right.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Gabor Toth,
p.s. Just in case you were wondering, please don't think I'm associating the work of P.H with the deeds of J.S...completely different ball-park...
Phew. :-)