Posts by Russell Brown
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That pic was taken from the table where we did all our eating and drinking. Quite a spot.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Starting Early, in reply to JacksonP,
Cheers. x 2 ;-)
Still listening to it. It's beautiful.
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70 minutes of lovely, warm sunset music - Leftside Wobble’s ‘Leftside Lounge Part 2’.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to giovanni tiso,
but this is the same paper that is proud to publish confirmed rape apologist Bob Jones
Oh, don't get me wrong. I enjoy and appreciate your practice of regularly reminding Tim Murphy and Shayne Curries that they publish Bob Jones.
The reason they publish Bob Jones is fairly simple: people click on his columns, in whatever spirit, like crazy. People talk about his columns, and comment on them, furiously. The fact that he writes for nothing helps too. It's worth reminding them that there are other costs to persisting with him.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Lilith __,
Wow, exquisite shots, Russell and Fiona!
The vessel in the pic of me looking at the water is the Spirit of New Zealand and contains the daughter of one Emma Hart. Here’s a better shot.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Lilith __,
The Herald’s treatment of Len Brown’s affair, which affected public opinion.
That was good and bad. Remember, it was the Herald's reporters who busted Slater, Cook, Wewege and Palino, and who were able to talk to Bevan Chuang and establish that she'd been horribly manipulated by them and that they'd deliberately misrepresented her. They also turned up the angle -- hotel rooms -- where Brown did actually have a case to answer.
On the other hand, the subsequent decision to stake the paper on a demand for Brown's resignation was silly. He didn't, they couldn't make him and they ended up looking spiteful and desperate in pursuing it. It didn't help that one reporter seems to have a negative obsession with Brown.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Damian Christie,
Discussion thread is and will remain open, but I won’t be a ‘warm body’ here, nor Twitter.
No worries, Damian. After six glorious days off, I’m overflowing with moderator juice.
To take up the theme of your post, I try and let my peers know when they’ve done a good job. It doesn’t mean I have to be their mate, but it’s useful to let people know when you think they’ve done well. This is something non-journalists can do too – most of these people are on Twitter. Constantly telling people they’re shit, or their employer is shit, just makes them defensive and they stop listening.
I don’t think regarding the Herald as monolithically terrible is fair or accurate. On balance, it’s the best paper in the country (although The Press probably has a shout at that title too) and people like David Fisher, Jarrod Booker, Audrey Young, Simon Collins and chief photographer Brett Phibbs are very, very good at their jobs. Some of the paper’s editorial decisions drive me nuts, but I greatly admired the process around the resizing of the paper.
Poor decisions – like that silly Lorde “f-bomb” headline on the website – happen in different contexts at different times of the day. That, for example, was a night sub getting it wrong.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Danielle,
Tbh, I'm not super-interested in watching you two fight about it.
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Onetangi again.
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First morning at Onetangi.
