Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Levelling the Playing Field, in reply to Don Christie,
But, there’s a monetisation problem.
A big one.
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I hope we can find a way forward
Got any ideas?
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Hard News: Awards and Rewards, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The little bits we did (and which thankfully ended up on the cutting room floor) were totally awkward and uncomfortable for me – you try being “natural” with a boom mic hovering over your head – and that was just for ten minutes.
Heh.
I'm just editing a blog post Jimmy has written about the whole experience. On that part, he writes:
Me and Craig just blew it. It felt like we were reading off cue cards, even though there were none. I'm glad that they left that out of the doco.
Makes me giggle.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Jesus, give it a bloody rest. Seriously. Nice gesture from David Cunliffe, and full credit, but if you wouldn’t have had something nasty to say about the Prime Minister “snubbing” the Leader of the Opposition at an occasion that should be absolutely non-partisan plenty would have lining up.
I agree. Key would have copped it if he'd overlooked Cunliffe in favour of a support party leader, and Cunliffe did the right thing when he was asked.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Emma Hart,
I have to admit, I initially misread that.
You're not the only one.
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Hard News: Awards and Rewards, in reply to Stephen R,
It was very brave of him to show the hard bits as well as the easy bits.
He was pretty bummed out the day he came home from the ill-fated pamphlet drop. We talked about it and I told him that that was probably going to be in the doco -- and should be, because it was something that really happened to him.
He handled seeing himself in distress (and knowing everyone else was seeing it) really well, on the basis that the programme was going to help other families. Which it did. Someone I know sat down and watched it with his own Aspie teenager -- and said his boy was so excited to see something that felt true to his experience, for the first time.
Jim and I have another night out this week. I asked for a press invite to Kim Dotcom's album listening party on Friday and the message came back from Kim (who has seen Jimmy Wants a Job) that Jim would be very welcome too. So that's what we're doing on Friday night :-)
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Jimmy uploaded one of his very short videos yesterday. He has a quirky sense of humour ...
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Hard News: Awards and Rewards, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I think even Judith Collins (who presented the Supreme award as ACC Minister) was enlightened.
I'm sure she meant well, but I was really annoyed when she declared how much she enjoyed watching Attitude on Sunday mornings -- and instructed "the NZ On Air people in the room" to keep funding it.
NZ On Air actually announced another year of Attitude (its tenth!) back in October. So, duh.
But the funding category it's in -- "Special Interest" -- is the most stressed of all the categories. There isn't enough to go around. And I don't think a minister in a government that has frozen NZ On Air's budget for the entire time it's been in office gets to play that sort of cutesy stunt on stage.
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TONY WON!!!
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to TracyMac,
It may well be fine, using the tribal name, but I don’t know how many people using it know that for certain. It’s been bugging me this week.
I looked it up, and apparently using someone's clan name is a sign of respect, but it sill seems inappropriate for me to use it.