Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I hope someone saved that interview somewhere. One day it will simply disappear. (Didn’t play for a couple of minutes, but still there now …)
Don't worry. We have a copy. We made the show!
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I meant to put this in the actual post on Friday: in October 2012, I interviewed John Campbell for Media3 and we made a longer 22-minute cut for the web only. Happily, it has survived the cull of Media3 episodes. It's a good watch.
You can see it here
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Hard News: Friday Music: They even taxed…, in reply to Ross Mason,
I remember back in about 1974 my flatmate’s girlfriend going on holiday to Fiji and bringing him back a Akai Cassette deck!! For half price!!!!! Talk about bells and whistles! Similar to the piccie.
I remember my grandfather getting a huge portable radiocassette deck from a man down at the docks. I spent a lot of time with that thing whenever we came to stay.
Man was that a moment in time. It was an era where every technician in DSIR spent hours emptying D J Reid of components and building Electronic Australia’s Stereo Amplifiers, preamplifiers, speakers (C8MX were cheap and king) and even building compensated turntables from scratch…..pun intended.
An old friend had a celebration on Waiheke this weekend and I played a DJ set through the 1970s NZ-made Pye Pro Lab speakers he’d got from a skip – like the ones in the picture. Those things are incredible. His house was literally vibrating at one point. (There’s a pair on Trade Me at the moment.)
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Hard News: Friday Music: They even taxed…, in reply to TracyMac,
Obligatory:
You had to, didn't you?
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Hard News: Campbell Live: A Disturbance…, in reply to Ianmac,
A great effort from the New Hope. Who is he? Will he be back?
It seems so. He’s here on Twitter and here on Facebook.
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The Ruminator has a great, wonderful, heartfelt post from Ali Ikram:
Only last week the news was delivered that the show would not go on. Originally, the intention was for everything to tick along for another six-to-eight weeks while a replacement was readied. But it soon became evident that wasn’t going to work. The simple reason being these people, who I am privileged to call my colleagues, are totally incapable of making anything in a half-hearted fashion.
And:
There are two types of television. There’s the one that panders to the perceived prejudices of the audience. This is easy to make, instantly creating headlines and galvanizing an audience that will switch on just to hear its view of the world parroted back. The weakness of operating this way will only be obvious to those it leaves out in the cold. The much tougher path is to challenge viewers to question their assumptions and to challenge the powerful, after all isn’t that what the job of journalism is supposed to be about? So thank you, John, for early in your career committing to showing the country in all of its shades of grey, but still with great verve and optimism for the future.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
“Pt Chev liberal” is shorthand, the same way “Waitakere Man” is.
I still don’t understand why “Pt Chev liberals” are to blame. Don’t they have a right to their reckons like Waitakere Man does? It’s not as if they exercise some wicked mind-control on the party executive. One might think they’re a not-insubstantial constituency Labour would risk losing to the Greens if Labour became too illiberal.
My sense is that Labour's The Future of Work thing might actually have some legs. There's a constituency of Labour voters who would welcome a broadening of the party's focus to include contractors and the self-employed. I know a lot of liberal sorts, particularly in the creative trades, who would respond to that.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Sacha,
Yes. I’d still love to hear what characterises them. I’m imagining age as much as anything, with the old Values/eco-hippies being one group.
Browning certainly seems to have been delivered by the woo faction, although he only went up one place (from 16 to 15) after the list was voted on. Sue Bradford’s exit after failing to gain the co-leadership also seemed like a factional defeat.
And as someone else has indicated upthread, the party’s male co-leadership race is also a bit bitchier and more ideological than it might appear on the surface.
This isn’t really a criticism. It’s a normal state of affairs. It just doesn’t seem true that the Greens are a party entirely without factions.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to llew40,
I may not agree with how Matthew has framed it, but I think he has a real point. I can’t help but think of the way that the Democrats have been so much more successful in the last two presidential elections than the Republicans, by understanding the electorate numbers better and wasting less energy or resources on the already decided.
That's true. But ... it's very expensive and the Democrats didn't have to contend with a centre-right party claiming the centre. The Republicans have been going the other way, off into moonbat land.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to BenWilson,
But of course the Pt Chev liberals controlling Labour has never been more true. Russell and Jolisa, we’re looking at you. Release the Labour Party!
I might point out that National won the party vote at three of our suburb's four booths. And Labour only won the other one by three votes.
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