Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I suspect that last statement has as much to do with the response as anything. After the messy torch relay, Olympics in only a couple of months, the opportunity to build up the impression around the world of "wow, China is doing a much better job at this than Burma/Myanmar" must be too good to be true.
I wonder what the reality is. National radio had a reporter on over the weekend who was in the region, who was less than complimentary about how hard they were really working to rescue people, as compared to how hard they were showing the rest of the world they were working to rescue people.
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(If we get to choose our own, once I get mine, I'd like to use KOATNZB [Knower of All Things New Zealand Media]. Or perhaps NZMB [New Zealand Media Badass].)
For that last one Danielle, I'd go with NZMBA, because people are going to first think it's an MBA, and then you get to disillusion them.
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Regarding the Swastika on the house in Auckland. I would be uncomfortable with it but I can see their point in having it.
I know a historian who had the same symbol (it's not a swastika, I believe the swastika is based on it) on the cover of a book which was about race and identity, particularly in Asian countries.
Because it looks like a swastika, they redid the book cover for the American market without it.
(What is it with the American publishing market anyway? Everytime I tell one of my American friends that Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone was renamed Sorcerer's Stone for the American market, because they didn't think Americans would know what a philosopher is, they give me a funny look and say that they know what a philosopher is. Is American publishing about trying to find the lowest common denominator to put on the cover?)
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That's a very chicken and egg comment to make kyle and I completely understand why you would make it. to answer it though you have to look further back, beyond the name to see why the organisation was started in the first place
Yup. Thanks for the history lesson which I didn't really need. My point was, and remains - you're bagging NZ on Air for doing what they've been told to do - get NZ on air - and done successfully. Bag their masters if you want them to be told to do something else.
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As a footnote, I believe that NZ On Air used to provide funding for Radio One for their support of NZ music. I presume the other b-net stations got something similar.
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My understanding is in 98-99 music programmers were bought into the decision making process, of recording grants, music videos and hit discs, thus guiding the whole process toward their pre determined image. You don't get onto hit disc unless you're going to get played on commercial radio and you won't get played on commercial radio unless you fit the format, and you get on a hit disc unless you.... etc.
see how nice and tidy it all is.Surely at the most basic level, the name of the organisation answers this. It's "NZ On Air". If it's not going to get on air, then it's not going to be supported by NZ on air. The same with TV - a TV show needs to show that a TV station will broadcast it, before NZ on Air fronts with the cash.
Whether or not that's the right way to go about things, who knows. But if that's the guiding principle, then the music and tv programmers have got it by the balls from day one, as they decide what goes on air. Why complain about NZ on Air? You should be complaining about the people that named it.
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Rather than allowing the hoodie to be merely a piece of early-00s fashion that youth are free to adopt, or discard, as they see fit, doesn't a 'Hoodie Day' now essentialize it as part of youth identity?
I think the boat might have sailed on that one.
Why do we have to imbue it with a significance and authenticity it just doesn't have?
So 30 years from now, instead of having 70s parties with flares, we can have 00 parties with hoodies and jeans hanging off your thighs rather than hips.
And someone will come along with a plastic knife and stab anyone carrying a spray can/marker pen, because by then it will no longer be 'too soon'.
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god help us all if McCain becomes President and has that whole dark backroom full of warmongers behind him. Doesn't anyone in the states remember Roosevelt's warning about the Military Industrial Complex?
I have no idea who McCain will choose as his running mate, but I can't imagine it'll help get him elected if he picks Dick Cheney. As far as I can tell shooting a friend in the face, and then making the friend apologise to him, is about the best thing he's done in eight years.
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On a serious note, is there a limit to the number of terms a vice pres can run?
Nope. The 22nd amendment only applies to the president.
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I'm one of those cranks who thinks it's out of line to accuse people of stealing elections, not matter how subtly (or not) the allegation is coded.
Unless they did of course.