Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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Actually I just want Wishart to fabricate a wild conspiracy theory - after all, there's a muslim country involved. Not sure if he also hates and fears the Vatican though.
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We opened an embassy in Turkey back then, maybe that's it. Be a bit prosaic though - where's Wishart when we need him?
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They've only published 220 documents (out of approx 251,000), none with the NZ tag or originating from the Wellington Embassy.
Looking through the headers, most cables from foreign embassies with the NZ tag relate to bird flu. There is, intruigingly, a cable from the US Embassy in Rome dating back to 1993 featuring the NZ tag. Counting the days until we get to read it . . . -
I've been happy with the RNZ coverage. And mostly with newspapers coverage as well. Scoop has been useful. I can't comment on TV because I don't watch it, but there are a lot of outlets that from where I'm sitting seem to be doing their job quite well in what are difficult circumstances for journalists and editors too.
Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. There's a certain class of person who complains about the media irrespective of the actual quality of the reporting because they have nothing else to say. I've found the Pike River coverage pretty good, given the fact that it's a national tragedy in which nothing much happens and each story requires a fair amount of scientific and technical jargon. The various graphs the web sites put up are particularly helpful.
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I was on my OE in 1996 (which is the election to which you refer?), so I have no idea what took place and why.
Then you should definitely check out Campaign the documentary about the 1996 Wellington Central election. It will answer all of your questions and happens to be really good.
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It's very hard to move a coalmine offshore.
Actually Thatcher's strategy for the miners strike was to (a) anticipate it and (b) stockpile huge coal reserves, which the government could import from Poland cheaper than the British could mine it.
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I've just had an email that includes the phrase "your treachery will not be forgotten".
Ah, they're all talk. After the revolution they'll offer you a mansion and the Order of Lenin as long as you blog nice things about their gulags.
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Wow - 'Reading the Maps' is a little like finding out that one of those Japanese snipers that hid in the jungles of PNG until the 70s has his own blog.
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You gotta see the big picture SodaPop. Sure, this union action might cost you your job and you might have to leave the country or find another career, but you'll be a martyr in the glorious war of Labour vs Capital. You should be honoured to have the bank foreclose on your house in the name of dialectic materialism.
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Why is it risky for Warners to be in a country that values worker rights? They operate in US, Canada, Oz, UK - they are all unionised and have vibrant film industries. What is your alternative for NZ performers (or workers generally for that matter).
If you put yourself in Warner's position, it's not unreasonable for them to say: 'hey, this union seems amazingly adversarial - what if they strike or call a boycott again half way through filming? Let's move the production to a country in which that's less likely to happen.'
Like other people have pointed out this might mean moving to a more unionsed country, just one in which the union is less likely to try and pick a fight with the studio.