Posts by Robert van Bakel
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Russel,
your slamming of 'Big News', and your inveigh against the BBC generally is somewhat demeaning; to you I mean.I live in China and can tell you that the internet is a saviour; but, the BBC ranks equal if not higher, to my students and me; I listen to the BBC World Service daily, along with more than two hundred million others. What planet do you live on?
You espouse 'twiiter' in the Iranian nonsense; good, me too. You talk of 'blogger' awareness, wonderful: Question; whom do you, and the other bloggers reach? The millions on the streets? I do know that the launching of the BBC's Farsi service in January had the Iranian Mullahs in all sorts of fatwahs. THIS was, and IS telling, for the problems now; not the 'twittering' of the wealthy, and upper middle classes.
Before you bury world news, and world papers for a provincialism, that is at times embarassing, perhaps you should raise your head above the wall and see who MOST people are still getting their news from; Not withstanding your own worthwhile efforts on the NZ front.
BTW, the Rugby World Cup and its doings or not, has not entered as a question my students ask about.
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I'm writing from China: This is the same Rankin who wore the laughable 'boob tubes' in the early nineties as a managerial 'wonderkind' of "Work and Income"? If it is (I have been out of the loop, not reading HardNews for several years), she was, is, and forever will be, a lobotomized tart. She has an ability to survive, thus marking her, as largely animal.
This, what? being, existance, waste of space, tart, utterly pointless vacuous boring bitch, IS, for want of a better description, not good for, 'good'ol NZ'.
As for Bain, I decided he was guilty on the day of his arrest. I realise in a democracy we need more than MY interpretation, and for the next 15 odd years we got it.