Posts by Phil Lyth
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
The issue at the top of people’s minds tends to be copyright over source material
Well yes, and Gareth Hughes' Member's Bill would address that. (I leave it to the reader to decide if the problem is solved.)
I'd be interested to hear from satirists (yes, looking at Lyndon, Jackson, Joshua and Steve) whether other changes to legislation should be proposed, around slander and libel. Feel free to take offline by emailing me (the little envelope icon at top right of this comment.)
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to ScottY,
It may not get the audience of something on TV1, but if it’s good enough and funny enough people will find it.
I'd be inclined to say if it is good enough, people will tell people about it. Viral, innit.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah, yes. I meant to include that in the post, so thanks.
Good to know that some real people, as opposed to a few politics anoraks like me, take an interest in the Proposed Bills page listing members bills in the ballot.
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To observe that Green MP Gareth Hughes put a Members Bill into the last ballot to allow use of copyright work for parody and satire.
(With the new system for the ballot, bills go online shortly after they are entered into the ballot.)
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Not actually Trevor’s job. Ruth Dyson is the committee chair
Well yes. Must confess to a touch of laziness, knowing that Trevor is more readily identified by the general public as being willing to engage when necessary.
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If, like me, you’re considering submitting in person, that list of names may give you pause.
Please, don't be scared off from the idea of making a submission in person - or even by videolink if the committee does not travel to Christchurch (and I hope it does.)
My experience is that MPs on select committees will always give a fair hearing to novices, people who are making first submission. Certainly if anyone tried to be hard on a submitter, I think it likely that Trevor would be tearing the MP a new one.
[ On the other hand, if a person chooses to go hardout with a direct attack on an MP or party on their first submission, don't be surprised if there is some comeback.]
And be aware that MPs can and are swapped in to select committees for particular items of business. There is no guarantee that the six permanent members will be the ones there on the day you make your submission.
If it helps, remember they all put their trousers on one leg at all time. (This thought on another post got some commenters taking off on a tangent.)
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And more to the point, that no one at all in government does?
Indeed. I didn't blog it but I asked the PM's office yesterday. The first they knew of the transcript error was when a Kiwi journalist from the Gallery rang them. None of Murray McCully's people had informed them.
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I know I am at maybe 110% of what I can fully absorb on Twitter. I know I miss stuff and I certainly missed Russell's first RT of Selwyn.
Re invoking a person's name, there are a lot of people called Alec Ross on twitter. I am still surprised he found my mention of his name (not his Twitter handle.)
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Hard News: We ... WHAT!?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don't see how any reasonable person could say Key's diction was at issue here
No, not to a New Zild ear. But what if the transcription was being done back in the States by a person who has to contend with hearing English spoken in its many glorious forms from around the world? I would have thought the State Dept would have run the draft transcript passed someone familiar with NZ English.
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Thanks for posting this. For completeness, a link to the original transcript at the US State Dept.