Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Tze Ming Mok,
I’d actually even be happy to read the story about the cheese, because at least it’s a local non-news story, rather than a non-news story from Canada or Australia or some random town in the US.
You make a sound point.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
If you mean the latter, then yes, definitely. If you mean the former, I suspect that it’s more that our too few paid journalists are expected to produce too many items per day to have time to look for things that are actually newsworthy, or investigate them properly when they find them.
Mark Jennings was strong on this point at IRL. The commodity journalists are losing is time. When you're expected to file multiple stories every day, there is a cost to that.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Simon Lyall,
The things is that the Daily Mail is a lot better at these sort of stories than the Herald or Stuff.
Very much so.
The strange thing is, I know there's real thought going into what they need to do with the printed paper, both in an editorial and management sense. And then there's this website that increasingly doesn't seem to meet any kind of standard.
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It has been pointed out to me that nzherald.co.nz is banned from /r/nottheonion.
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One theory I've seen aired is that this is a defensive measure on the part of NZME in ancipation of the merger: they've decided they can't afford to look less clickworthy than Stuff when the axe is wielded, and damn the broader consequences.
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The Phoenix Foundation, who closed with a VERY noisy version of 'Buffalo'.
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Hex are an all-woman Black Sabbath-inspired power trio from Wellington. They’re bloody good.
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I feel this picture accurately captures the madness of King Loser. Definitely the wildest thing I experienced.
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Buzz out of Voom, who played one of the early sets and were just lovely.
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The Other’s Way was brilliant last night – saw a lot, missed even more, didn’t see one bad band. This is Shocking Pinks, who were were taut and rhythmic – I danced pretty hard for an old guy.
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