Posts by Alfie
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White Man Behind A Desk -- on climate change
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In today's Herald, John Drinnan sums up TV3's 7pm ballsup and their latest bright idea to use Heather du Plessis-Allan and Duncan Garner in that slot.
More interesting to me is the Herald poll running alongside that story. At the time of writing the most popular option by a long way is "Bring back John Campbell and Campbell Live." Damn right!
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The Herald reports that Sky, TVNZ, MediaWorks and Lightbox have won their battle to restrict New Zealander's access to offshore streaming services.
New Zealand internet service providers offering customers "back door" access to streaming web content will stop offering those services from September in a deal cut with broadcasters who were taking them to court.
Pay-TV operator Sky Network Television today said it has dropped legal proceedings against the ISPs after reaching a settlement, which will see the 'global mode' unavailable in New Zealand from September 1.
VPNs however remain untouched.
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Thank you Dave for articulating this issue so clearly. It's sad when politicians like Nathan Guy are prepared to turn a blind eye to the destruction of our native wetlands to safeguard obscene profits for the few. While most thinking New Zealanders will be shocked by such wanton vandalism, they are rendered powerless when the very people who are charged with protecting our environment are so complicit in its destruction.
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As usual, Key has an opinion on everything, even when it's not based in fact. This time it's MDMA.
Although Key said he had not seen any official advice on the safety of ecstasy, and was unfamiliar with Quigley's reasoning, he thought it unlikely his Government would legalise it. "Anything I've seen in relation to this drug has been deeply negative, so I can't see why it would be."
He believed the societal harm from such a move would be "very, very significant".
Maybe our PM needs to take a chill pill?
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The NBR Glucina story has been updated to include Weldon's vision for Mediaworks.
“Digital entertainment brands featuring snackable, shareable content [especially video] are the fastest growing part of the media landscape, and there is a gap in the New Zealand market in this area,” Mr Weldon says.
As a lifelong news junkie who appreciates intelligent and in-depth analysis of important issues, I don't share Weldon's view that NZ doesn't have enough cheap, meaningless gossip. Time will surely tell. At this point all 12 comments on the NBR are disparaging of Mediaworks' latest move.
There's also a clarification of the TV3 newsroom review.
Although MediaWorks has yet to clarify the matter, it’s now understood what NBR earlier reported as a review of the entire Mediaworks newsroom is actually just focused on two positions, including that of John Hale, the most senior producer of TV3’s 6pm bulletin.
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Paul Quigley calls for MDMA to be legalised.
The purest form of ecstasy is safer than alcohol and should be legalised, Wellington Hospital's emergency department head says.
Emergency medical specialist and clinical toxicologist Paul Quigley said there was mounting evidence that MDMA, the unadulterated base for ecstasy, was one of the safest recreational drugs, especially when compared with alcohol, which made up about two-thirds of late-night and weekend admissions at the hospital's accident and emergency department.
His controversial call has been backed by the New Zealand Drug Foundation, and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne said that, although the idea was a "longshot", he would discuss its merits with Quigley.
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Run for the hills! Glucina ditches sinking Herald for burning Mediaworks.
That's wonderful news. I've lost track of the number of times I've fallen for a Herald headline, only to find it was a Glucina story. They really should've prefaced them with Warning: psuedo-journalism - don't waste your time.
This "appointment" further signals TV3's intention to dominate the bottom of the media market. Unfortunately I can't see any local media organisation stepping up to take over the quality end... yet.
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On the topic of quality journalism, I can recommend Mihingarangi Forbes' final (?) piece for Maori Affairs, another investigation into the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust board with yet more tales of corruption and blatant misuse of public money.
It's good to see there's at least one journalist prepared to call out Hekia Parata for obfuscating and generally avoiding answering questions. You'll notice that Perata still begins most of her answers with "So..."
