Posts by Michael Savidge
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Russel,
Do you have any scoop on what form the post-BZP products will take?
Is there any real reason to hope they will exceed the performance of the soon-to-be-banned pills and still manage to hurt less the next day?
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And in twelve months time we'll probably have Murray McCully representing our country
Way to ruin my day...
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that was me agreeing with you, btw.
Onya.
I think there may be a culture of fear amongst local broadcasters that if they waver from the current *cough-successful-cough* model they will alienate viewers.
Whereas I reckon the first one to take the brave step of delivering a more objective and analytical model of presentation would reap the rewards. A jaded and cynical audience is likely to welcome a step in that direction.
And having read over that....I agree with me :)
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I'd actually like to be better informed: more analysis and less commentary on who is/isn't winning the game.
I totally agree. The game of who's winning is, fair enough, an issue in its own right - though not a particularly important one this far out from an election - but it shouldn't cloud debates over particular issues or policy.
What I would like to see is more tenacity and analysis from reporters and editors in their initial reporting and follow-up on topical issues.
But again, TV companies have to face up to their commercial imperatives and, regardless of the charter in TVNZ's case, they must tailor their material to try and seduce viewers into watching.
I feel that 'infotainment' is the horse that's bolted and its going to be very difficult to shut the barn door now.
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part of me thinks there are still many km sq. in the burbs where people continue to passively consume pushTV.
And there would be more if a) the charter actually delivered quality, and b) there was more hard-edged journalism in the political arena. I really do feel that the MSM in NZ fail to fulfill their potential as the fourth estate. Ask more questions and demand more answers.
I also don't understand why the talents of the Eating Media Lunch crew haven't been exploited further - everyone loves satire! Except those being satirised but their whingeing just makes it more fun.
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I was once paid too much money to lie on my back in a field for two days and count the number and type of birds flying through an imaginary grid...
However it was sunny and I often fell asleep.
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I'm not a committed conspiracy theorist but....
I always feel the skeptic in me re-awakened at times like these. Whose interests are being served by the ongoing threat of "terrorTM"?
Are there others out there who wouldn't put it past certain organisations to 'sponsor' acts like these in order to justify their ongoing operations and keep the 'war' at the top of the agenda.
Y'know, a bit like creating the news then reporting it.
The amount of money involved in armaments etc does, for me, necessitate a bit of thought into the bigger picture regarding conflict.
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I wasn't going to post here as I couldn't decide which tale to tell. But since Russell has brought up squats....
Some good friends were squatting in Clapham Junction (which they eventually turned into a co-op) and their upstairs neighbours were some truly nefarious chemical hounds. I was working in the Scottish highlands near Glenshee and was in close proximity to a golf course that had more mushies than I'd ever seen in one place before (talk about your handicaps!). Honestly, there were millions. I'd shoot down to London on my days off with my trusty MacPac stuffed to the gunnels with the wee magics and swap them for all sorts of goodies with the lads upstairs, catch a show at the Brixton academy and generally run myself ragged...Once back in up north I'd be everybody's darling for a week or three...
Which was all good....until realising that after I'd been back in NZ for about a year, and had pulled out the pack in preparation for a roam in the Tararuas that I had unintentionally smuggled half a gram of pure MDMA into 100% Pure NZ...
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You know, I've long suspected that James B is on Russell's payroll.
Every topic he gets into sparks rabid debate and posts tend to exceed the hundred mark fairly quickly...
You cunning bastard Brown...
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I feel like I have to apologise somewhat for the wee rant, as it is a bit off topic.
But crikey, some parents just make we wanna.....
Back to topic. Who remembers the case in Perth of the parents naming their son Drew Peacock?