Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Capital lists...
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How is this Sim-Auckland going?
http://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/16611-auckland-greater-region-new-zealand/?page=1 -
Whack-sing lyrical…
a well pitched delivery, sir…
…far more palatable than Key’s vain attempts to connect recent cricket (and Sevens) victories to his helmsmanship of the National Ship of Fools in his speech following his ’Opening statement’
see:
http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/video/41341
or the precis here:Mr Speaker, isn’t it good to be back, I hope you had a good holiday and members did… and what a wonderful time it was for New Zealand, what a great display of cricket yesterday afternoon by Brendon McCullum in the Chappell Hadlee Series – New Zealand up against Australia one more time under a National-led Government, Mr Speaker.
and as Barry Soper points out:
If you were John Key’s speech writer for his keynote opener in Parliament’s bear pit, you would have been frustrated.
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Key was only up to the third page of his ten-page tome, when the winding-up bells were sounding. He then went on to compress the material in front of him making him sound as though he was speaking in shorthand.
He’d run out of time because he came up with what he obviously considered was a clever line, not in his speech notes, but in his head. He was banging on about the flaky Labour lot and how they were all over the place on his beloved Trans Pacific Partnership when the light bulb went off …My bolding
Key mistakes wallow for willow every time
his eye is well off the ball
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Let them eat (insert sponsor's product)...
The pennies are slowly dropping;..
I'd been wondering what Fairfax were up to - they seem to be transitioning the physical newspaper environment - I can now pick up any fresh paper and I will have already read almost 50% of it on line prior to receiving it.
Some of it time crucial, but much of it of low grade 'newsworthiness' or paid for columnists (I am not attempting to conflate those two concepts, but the difference is becoming marginal)
The paper is being killed off before they have figured out how to monetise the web, which is getting less dynamic and less appealing at the same time.
BUT I see this release from a year or so ago (july 2014):
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1407/S00907/fairfax-media-nz-launches-national-events-division.htmFairfax Media New Zealand today launched a national events division, demonstrating the organisation’s continued diversification beyond its heritage as a traditional print media organisation. Fairfax currently has a number of successful events within its portfolio including Round the Bays, Central District Field Days, NZ CEO and CFO Summits, Sustainable 60 Awards and Women of Influence Awards, events which were previously run by various Fairfax divisions.
and I also see the Night Noodle Markets The Press has been pushing so heavily recently - too much it may seem in Chchch - is a Fairfax Events Division property - they started it 20 years ago in Melbourne and are now bringing it here - so all those years of being a paper and an information source have been reduced to a vehicle for in-house promotions and not very well organised ones by the sound of it...
Their event organisation is as 'once-over-lightly' as their subbing is now.“We see events as an exceptional way to integrate and leverage our customers’ brands further to relevant audiences. Backed up with the power of our content channels across digital and print, it is a powerful combination.”
This is taking 'the newspaper' as a metaphor for disposability and foodwrapping too far!
I think it sounds like they have lost their way, too...<edit> and haven't TV3 been making the same squeaky noises about promotion and being the news rather than reporting it?
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it appears there are many ‘angles’ dancing on these 'pinheads'….
luckily the quantity of possible ‘angels’ has been fully examined:
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i3/angels-7-3.htm
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
As our local media lay off experienced staff and seek to monetarise assets in some sort of crazed, clickbait-inspired death spiral
It's almost freudian the need to monetise stories - take this one on Lydia Ko in Stuff yesterday
There was none of the urban slang which is common among many other teenagers around the world. A monetary lapse in concentration, where she might accidentally swear, seemed inconceivable.
They just can't stop thinking about money - they've fixed it to read 'momentary' now - but had to be told.
a recent letter to the editor raved on about 'statuary holidays' - Queen Victoria is not amused having had to wait on her plinth, day in and day out in Chchch... -
Hard News: Listening Lounge 2016: Drugs…, in reply to Russell Brown,
prerendering to the inevitable...
Do we really have to do Max Key jokes?
What you need is a Max Block!
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Light Metal
DIY volcanic cones
or a city going down the drainage....
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to william blake,
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to FletcherB,
cache register...
Does anyone else recall the old mechanical cash register in there? ...
I’m sure I saw it at least ten times, only visiting a few times a year?Ring up the changes, yet there is no accounting for the passage of time...
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