Posts by Russell Brown
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Just a reminder that the show screens a little earlier than usual tonight on Maori television: 10.15pm
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Closed.
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Muse: One Of These Things Is Not Like…, in reply to Hebe,
I think Craig’s motivation in writing was the belief that the two shouldn’t be conflated, but I also am feeling fairly distressed by the turn the discussion has taken. I’ll keep watch and will close the thread if it doesn’t improve.
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Jane, I'm sorry but I've deleted your entire comment. There seemed no purpose to it but to attack Craig in a way that reached way into the realm of personal correspondence. This is not the place to sort this out.
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Muse: One Of These Things Is Not Like…, in reply to ,
Steven, I've removed the unnecessary and offensive last line of your comment. I recognise your real stake in a discussion like this, but that wasn't taking us anywhere good.
Tracy was talking about how and why Refuge developed as a safe space for women suffering violence from men. I think that rather than try and change that identity, we should ask why there aren't those spaces for the men who need them.
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Hard News: Media Take: Afghanistan,…, in reply to Moz,
I assume that the “malfunction” in this case is that a video recording of the incident escaped. If the system had been functioning correctly the video would never have been seen by anyone outside the US military.
No, as is made clear in the introduction, the combat video is not from the mission in question.
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Hard News: Media Take: Afghanistan,…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Sixteen? The article Kevin linked says six. Bit of a difference.
Actually I was wrong – just checked the report. It’s 21. Six killed and 15 injured.
Edit: Also the villagers' accounts of where they were shot (outside, running for cover) didn't match with the US explanation (a couple of rounds fell short and hit a building).
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Hard News: Media Take: Afghanistan,…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
A loose connection, a faulty transistor, a blown fuse… So many, many ways things can go wrong.
Sixteen civilians were hit by helicopter gunship fire as they sought shelter. The villagers say there were no insurgents there and no evidence has been produced to the contrary. I don't think it was a malfunctioning gunsight.
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Hard News: Media Take: Afghanistan,…, in reply to Kevin McCready,
I find it very hard to believe gun sights malfunctioned. Any info on this?
It seems less likely than recklessness as an explanation.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Wellies not required, in reply to Samuel Scott,
I actually thought it was quite widely acknowledged (it came up after she played here), but this guy seems to have demonstrated it:
Here's the footage from Glastonbury 2014. The left-hand-side audio is from Perth, Australia on February 27th. The signal in the middle is from Manchester on June 21st. The right-hand-side audio is from Sydney, Australia on February 18th. All varying quality audios, all recorded from different vantage points in different rooms - but all with one thing in common: Dolly's voice track is exactly identical. (The Glastonbury audio is absent entirely, to underscore the point... but rest assured, it's the same.)
Rather than dissing Dolly for this, I'd say there are several performers who should be treating this as an absolute MASTERCLASS in miming. Dolly has drilled herself on the departures from the original melody in the vocal track and, yes, her timing is slightly out at times, but mostly she's right on the button. She would totally have gotten away with saying it wasn't mimed in a pre-Youtube age, despite the audio/video of the performance being widely posted. That's NINJA MIME.