Posts by Gareth Ward
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That ticket thing is out of their hands though - it's the IRB who's making the call here, based on competing commercial offers. That seems to get a bit lost in all this fuss really - for all the cries of "national interest" this and "coverage in Paihia" that, the IRB is going to choose based on who gives them the most moolahs and presumedly "maintains and encourages the brand" or some shit. It ain't our call.
Although that is based on the fact that NZ has put up competing offers - a single MTS/TV3 bid would have taken the ball out of the IRB's court somewhat. Would they really have played hardball and said "no FTA coverage in the hosting country"?
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Time and place and all that.
OK, I see what you're getting at - my issue isn't really with the accuracy/success/skills of psychics though, it's the specific fact that one stood there "proclaiming" on national TV the fate of this child in a pretty damn unsensitive manner. Psychic or not.
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Doesn't feel like it has anything to do with the rest of us, we're not the ones whose daughter was missing.
Well my apologies Kyle but I'll call exploitive bullshit like that any time. And yes, it angers me that people can show such little empathy and thought for a family going through something so awful.
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To be fair, the family called TVNZ after the interview aired, apparently wanting to talk to Webber
Can I ask where that came from? It doesn't really gel with this is all:
On a Facebook page dedicated to finding Aisling, a Symes family spokesperson said they were not interested in hearing from psychics.
"Please do not suggest psychics, the family are a strong Christian family, and will not consider this under any circumstances," they said.
"I know you are all just trying to think of anything to help but it's not helpful for us to see that on here, sorry," the message said.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Home/Story/tabid/209/articleID/125143/cat/525/Default.aspx
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Just to repost what I said over at Dim-Post - unfortunately some kind of a ditch or hole is where the majority of people that die end up, regardless of whether it's accident or foul play.
To have this charlatan of a woman effectively saying "she's probably dead" on TVNZ makes me so freakin angry... -
Doesn't this come down to the IRB in the end? If they decide a few extra bucks (on top of the obscene amounts I suspect Sky paid plus all the exclusive sponsorship stuff) plus the (to my mind) unique "NZ-ness" of the Maori proposal trumps getting analogue coverage to that final 10% then there you go.
Certainly the funding decisions are a separate topic to the IRB's decision making process.
And hey, 10% of households - that's about 200,000 homes yeah? How's about a $50 subsidy of a cheap Freeview box out of the Analogue Switchoff budget? Presuming 70% takeup, that's $7m that would probably have to have been spent anyway? -
Isn't it interesting how many a media and/or National-friendly commentator pointed out how horribly the Super Fund had done in the immediate past and that we therefore shouldn't be borrowing to play the "international equity casino".
Just of interest - since just before the decision to halt contributions in May's Budget, the NZSF has gained 33%. Now presuming the Budget provides the NZSF with a one-off annual capital injection (unsure?) that's a looooot of cash we've left on the table.
Yup, both sides of that fun little game completely fail to address the long-term strategy of the Fund and the extraordinary markets they've faced in the last 24 months - but isn't it funny that we only got one side of that story?
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The fact that Maori Television only reaches 85% of viewers presents another obvious problem.
But wouldn't it make for a hell of a burning platform to encourage the analogue switch-off?
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My sister and I stayed at Coconuts last year, in an overwater fale that is almost certainly destroyed now. It's a strange feeling.
Isn't it? My (now) wife and I stayed on Railay Beach for some time in 2004 a few weeks before the Boxing Day tsunami. It's a small place and a number of "famous" photos came from that beach after the fact - made it quite real and surreal at the same time.
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Ben, certainly agree that the various news types switched pretty quickly to the tragedy as they knew about it and well done.
But it struck me that a variety of online and "offline" discussions I was having still revolved around waves in NZ, well AFTER it was clear there was no serious risk here and the impact in Samoa had become widely reported.
I genuinely meant it when I said people aren't that self-centred and think there is something about setting the theme of a story early on that drives discussion well after events have overtaken it. Less of a criticism, more of an observance.