Posts by Paul Robeson
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errr...well the standard seems to like it...maybe I should actually go and read it and get back...hard to know what it would look like in a print edition too...
but I think that National is gettin an awful free run...they are flip flopping, avoiding issues, being facile and using euphemisns and not a soul is calling them on it...
If they get in without being properly put to the test it will be criminal...
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yep more objective journalism from the Herald. That is if the objective is to change the government.
Is this the same paper that had the nerve to run an Democracy Under Attack campaign? Should we be passing a law about Australian money in our media, given their shameful corporate media? The same media that ran John Howard's line that interest rates would rise under Labour, though economists said that they would likely rise under both parties with the amount of promised spending?
The Listener kowtowing to the U.S. oil lobby, the Herald, and TVNZ got some chap in from A Current Affair in Aussie to head their news- the program that happily ran a prosecution by media of a swimming coach accused of sexual harrasment.
aishe.
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If only Gerald Durrell had had Scottish relatives...is this a true story?
fantastic piece of writing...I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall if your grandfather ever met Gerry's older brother Larry...
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Hey Graeme, while you are there you couldn't buy a pair of size 13 black shoes that look comfortable enough to play lunch time football in and put them in the post to the provinces could you?
Getting any shoes over size 10 in the rest of Korea is something of a mission- anywhere outside Itaewon they are obsooyo. They don't exist.
yeh there is a lot of those Moses Miracle beaches with the really tidal harbours...
When the American navy ship came down one of their harbours in the 19th century to do some gunboat market entry, instead of been cowed they waited until low tide when all the water went away, walked out and burned it!
oh yeh...while we on it- much less poetical dong is the suffix for suburb here.
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Hey don't Ken's Yakitori do something similar with the camembert?
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Yeh and having spent a lot of time bashing Hamilton, or well merely making snide comments...the Gardens are reallly nice, and having been to a few of the arts festivally things there- they were reasonably priced, inclusive- including I remember a great wee production of an Italian renaissance play by fresh Unitec grads performed in an outdoor amphitheatre...
This is our of date by a few years now...but
If you compare that to some of the dross such as the production of A Clockwork Orange which included in its final monologue an attempt to get us to buy a book in the foyeur..
anyway...not saying its all that way. but another one for the Hamiltron. Oh and they've got test cricket.
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They care very much if it goes down the toilet, because people don't buy it. And to be quite blunt, Tom, I don't recall The Herald or The Listener being that wonderful under domestic ownership.
They don't care if it goes down the toilet. They care if people stop buying it. And a morally apt magazine, filled with intellectually scrumptious reading does not always shift product, or attract advertisers.
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I thought you were one of them Philip! John Drinnan today says "Ussher [who has left as well] joins a long list of long-time staffers who have left the magazine and past luminaries include Denis Welch, Bruce Ansley, Alastair Bone and Phillip Matthews."
Joseph Romanos is no longer in there too.
Hansford was only there since November and I think he replaced some English woman who was also short lived.
I see the story has made the NZ Herald. Pamela stirling said the column is now being done by a staffer and Hansford's was only a short term role.
and Gordon Campbell...another one who actually had the confidence to do investigative journalism...
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Why is this extraordinary? The Listener has been going to pack for ages and is well into sensationalist tabloid territory. Its science/health reporting is a joke and the writers seem to have no idea of scientific method or what constitutes scientific research. It regualrly trots outs hysterical stories of the "Diet Coke Wants to Kill Our Children" ilk. The latest story on cellphones causing cancer is just appalling and relies on a very dodgy piece od research, which has been well and truly skewered here: http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2008/03/cell_phones_and_cancer_real_or.php
The writer seems to think a "self-published" research study is considered credible. By the author perhaps, but by noone else in the scientific community.
The most disappointing aspect is that there are no major print media doing good quality scientific reporting. They all seem to have decided hysterical and one-sided is the way to go. The tragedy is that there are valid concerns and debates that are being hijacked by ill-informed nutters.sorry mate- you've got it completely wrong...To quote from the Herald article...
"Stirling says the magazine is more centrist and allows everyone to express a view."
Being completely wrong, and having banal little topic headlines in addition to your headlines as one headline is not enough, or not trusting your readers to form their own opinion about a movie from READING a synopsis without an asinine 6/10 rating (introduced by an ex-Craccum ed obviously slumming it) this is more centerist.
The Listener is now proudly part of Don Brash's mainstream New Zealand! What would Ian Cross think? Or would he be blogging for Public Address?
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This seems appalling behaviour from the Listener. Oh well, never mind. It's not the sort of publication that wants to wade into these sorts of issues. You don't get to be magazine of the year by doing that. Lets get a few more pieces on how much we are spending, the battle of the bulge, what our children did on the weekend, make over tips...
those kind of things...I seeing in the back of Metro one of their clippings..only it was the Listener contents printed as a joke under the headline "Dude where's my women's magazine?"....going back a year or so from memory...
sorry Russ...don't mean to be so biatchy on your thread about one of your places of publication!!