Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The judge is not helping, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Maybe he’s more a public relations type?
That's an example of where it might be extremely relevant to discover Whale's sources. He's admitted to taking PR money to run certain lines on his blog, which would seem to undermine his claims to media protections.
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Hard News: The judge is not helping, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Maybe make the test of journalism apply to the article in question, not to the writer or publication's body of work?
Yes, I think that would be a more productive path to take.
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Steven Price on Firstline this morning:
Appearing on Firstline this morning, media lawyer Steven Price said the judge's reasoning was not clear.
"He does cite an old Law Commission issues paper that says bloggers are highly partisan and offensive and abusive, and that they're really not accountable to anyone. What he doesn't cite though is another part of the Law Commission's report later on where they say that bloggers can provide a rich alternative source of information and commentary," says Mr Price.
"I'm not quite sure how hard the judge has thought this through."
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Hard News: The judge is not helping, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Was it concerning the doco “For the Public Good”?
Yes. Sir Roger Douglas was extremely unhappy.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival Furores, in reply to George Darroch,
James Murphy should be the next Doctor.
Brilliant.
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So I got drafted on to the closing panel at the symposium yesterday, which was nice.
I asked Kevin Sabet, given that he had said he agreed that we need to curb the harms of of criminalisation, how we could do that without undertaking some form of decriminalisation.
He sort of agreed, and I asked him whether I could therefore describe him as a “decriminalisation advocate”. He said yes, but only with “a footnote” about what he meant by that.
I was unsuccessful, sadly, in actually getting him to explain what that footnote might be. The words “lip service” came to mind.
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This is fantastic. David Bowie, 'Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)'.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival Furores, in reply to bob daktari,
My expectation is that she'll be at the Grammys -- it's just too big to miss -- and that the Laneway promoters will get a make-good gig. She could even curate her own support acts. The alternative would be her playing no NZ shows this summer, which I don't think anyone wants.
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Just to note I’ve fixed the incorrect date for Laneway 2014 – it’s actually January 27. I’ve been out giving a little talk and I can’t edit posts on my phone. Gah.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to ObjectiveReality,
I’d understood that the lack of some CBD analogue was also part of what made the synthetic cannabinoid drugs so prone to cause freakouts in users relative to real pot.
Yeah, that makes sense.