Posts by Bart Janssen
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Dear Commissioner Marshall. Shut the fuck up and go away.
No
No you are NOT good guys.
You don't get to say you're a good guy when you let children be raped.
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Oh and I am so proud to have even been an internet acquaintance of Gio.
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So I've been away from my keyboard for a week. Reading this thread has been (mostly) heartening. Most of what I wanted to say has been said so I have just this.
I am a fairly strong supporter of The Police. I believe for the most part they are good people doing a shit job. BUT
This morning I saw a senior police officer QQ'ing about how we should focus on the real bad guys and stop picking on the police ...
He is UTTERLY WRONG.
As evil and amoral as the scum that raped those girls are, they are not the most important issue in this disgusting saga. At worst those criminals could only harm a small number of women (and believe me I hate to use that phrase when we should be 100% rape-free NZ).
By contrast, the presence of a culture in the police force that allows rapists to continue to rape by slut shaming the women (and others) who are the victims, harms every rape victim until that culture is abolished.
So here's what I want.
I want the police in west Auckland investigated so thoroughly their skin turns red and they can't sit for month. I'm sorry for those who will be put through the mill unfairly that is the price you pay for allowing your colleagues to be scum.
I want the lying scum policepersons found and identified and thrown in jail for the harm they have allowed to occur. They should lose their jobs but they should also be criminally liable (and yes I know they are not). They do have to be ejected from the police force.
I want their managers to be ejected from the police force. If they knew they should go. If they didn't know, they should have, they should go. They took the job of managing which comes with responsibility as well as a pay raise - they should go.
I want the managers of those managers to go. They took even more money for a responsible job. They need to be responsible.
I want every single manager on the path from those police that failed on the beat in west Auckland all the way up to and including the commissioner to be fired. Not given the opportunity to resign but fired, with loss of retirement benefits and every bit of shame that goes with being found unfit for the job they were given.
That just might send a strong enough message to the staff and managers that allowing rapists to wander the streets is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
I won't get what I want, I know that. But writing this makes me cry, those women ... girls ... children have had their lives and childhoods torn asunder. The police are meant to be there to protect those that cannot protect themselves ... the police have failed so badly in this case, how can we accept that any of those involved get to keep their jobs.
Oh yes ... I'm angry.
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That there has been not a single complaint made to police by the victims is pretty damning evidence that our police and justice system is utterly failing for these crimes.
We are long past the point where a stupidly stubborn adherence to adversarial justice can be claimed to work.
My anger at those committing these crimes is only matched by the sorrow for the victims. Tears either way.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Danielle,
What does “passive” mean in this context?
For me it means that the TV is on and I'm vaguely aware of the program but I'm also doing something else at the same time. Preping dinner or loading the dishwasher or tweeting or reading PAS or reading Metro or ...
It isn't the whole of my attention and even at times not the majority of my attention, but it is on and I can probably tell you what happened in the last 5 minutes.
But that isn't true for all of the mainstream TV that I watch. And what is passive for me is active for someone else in the house and vice versa.
That might not be what Jason meant though.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But at least for me, a sign of a healthy culture is when every damn thing isn’t expected to even try being all things to all people all the damn time.
+1
My taste is mine. It is demonstrably different from anyone else. There is great art I actively dislike yet still recognize as great art and valuable to society. That is why I think Russell is right and we need taxpayer dollars to make sure that there is a chance art can be made for small groups of society and not the commercially viable majority.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Yamis,
rubbing it’s hands together
Yeah a bunch of folks made money from that show, pity that didn't extend to the actual contestants. There were some pretty cynical business decisions made. Some of that is understandable given the risk associated with producing such a show but by halfway through they would have known that they'd turned a healthy profit so sharing that with "the talent" would have been nice.
I think that hard business cynicism evident in TV is one of the things that turn the youth off. Why spend your leisure time giving money to the suits when you could share your attention with your peers. They are more relevant and if there is any money to be made from hits then it goes to your peers rather than to some overpaid CEO.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Russell Brown,
basically for squares
Hey! I resemble that comment.
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So I watched ALL of the block NZ. We got hooked by the Aussie version. We love renovation shows and while The Block NZ missed the mark on several points for us (really the oldest contestant was 30?) and I seriously HAD to fast forward through Alice's voice sometimes. But it was easy entertainment while prep'ing or eating dinner.
By contrast with the Aussie version the judges used were of um questionable taste and there didn't seem to be much time or money to incorporate really novel or exciting design into the houses. But it was fun to watch.
But we also watch Grand Designs (because Kevin McCloud) and a lot of the Media7/3 episodes and all of The Blue Rose and will get Harry to watch when it comes out on DVD and The Almighty Johnsons is on the stack of things to watch soon. We are consumers of NZ media even if the advertisers care not a wit about us.
Rather than worrying about getting "good" TV made in NZ, whatever that is? I am more worried about getting TV that is not simply lowest common denominator TV. There should be room for programs to be made that don't interest me but interest some other group, even if that group is fairly small. That's the part of the market that a public broadcaster is needed for, or at least a public producer that can afford to pay for things to be broadcast. I think it is when those "small interest" things get made that you have the chance to create, I guess I'd have to call it Art.
I'm glad The Block NZ was made and was a success. I'm sad that some of the folks on it have been harshly used. But I also want to see other things made and like Russell I'm just not sure I know who will make those other things and how they will be funded.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
I saw a survey, probably in the last year or so, that covered what people say they want from TV and what they actually watch.
We have the same issue with food. You do a survey about what people want from new fruit cultivars and they say they want healthy fresh etc etc ... and then they walk out of the supermarket with 3 bags of chicken chips that were on special. You want people to buy apples? Make them taste like a burger ... sigh.