Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Weird Auckland, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
And here’s a cool new local song – “Bridges” by Brood, produced by Joel Little. Already creating buzz beyond these shores. Very delicious.
Okay, I'm impressed.
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Don Christie,
Just on the money side of things, I am less concerned than Russell. The Grauniad is investing in growth and market share. Ask Xero what that does to cash reserves. It doesn’t mean it is not able to generate revenues.
But Xero is investing towards a very clear revenue model. The Guardian is having to bet on internet advertising, which is arguably completely screwed. That's what I'm worried about.
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Don Christie,
I still struggle to see what your point about the timing decision is or was. Of course Snowden was in a hurry, he knew he could be shut down or taken out very quickly
Which is not, I feel obliged to note, the reasoning he actually offered himself.
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Scans of the original Rip It Up pages. Click to embiggen.
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Meanwhile: James Murphy remixes new David Bowie and it is awesome.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Weird Auckland, in reply to Simon Grigg,
And since you didn’t plug it yourself
Ah. I didn’t realise it was public yet! I’ll write a separate post for this right now,
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Don Christie,
I’m not sure how to put this Russell. But once again your approach seems to be to shoot the messenger. This time Greenwald. In doing so you turn this (as you did with the Wikileaks saga) into a story of personalities over content.
NOT I AM NOT. Dammit Don, I’m critiquing a specific editorial decision taken in the face of Greenwald’s threat to go elsewhere with the story – and comparing it with the way other stories have been developed. Every time I’ve talked about this, you’ve accused me of “playing personalities” and it’s getting silly. This was an editorial decision that directly affected the the way a hugely important story was presented to the world.
This seems deliberate and exactly what our governments would like. C.f. todays Daily Mail.
Yeah, of course. It was deliberate because I’m secretly in league with the enemy – or something. FFS. Come on, man. Get a grip. This is ridiculous.
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Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Matthew Poole,
I think it is unachievable. Peter Ellis is a pretty good example of what happens when the victims are considered unimpeachable (after some seriously fucked-up coaching, admittedly).
It's a bit more than that. It's not that there were no victims. But my very strong suspicion is that it was not any of the accused who did the victimising. That was done by the people who coached them. Perhaps one da there will be a proper accounting of what happened there.
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Speaker: TPP: This is a fight worth joining, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I’ve never found a free trade agreement of any use in selling things overseas.
You may not be looking hard enough. NZ’s exports to China have trebled since the signing of the China-NZ FTA in early 2008. See the graph. That FTA was and is crucial to our economy.
