Posts by Neil Drinkwater
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No Chris I don't see any 50 cent gang;) if someone seems to be asking stupid questions just set them right with direct facts.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
How do we work out how is pulling the strings Paul? Do we have to hack his email for the public good? Maybe we could tortue him- for the public good of course.
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"Cat walks on keyboard, hitting unlikely combination"
Isn't that how Bruce Wayne's cat found the bat cave? Wonder if Nicky Hagar could break name suppression ruling because someone leaked name to him and he considered it a matter of public concern.
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Speaker: Confidential information: the…, in reply to richdesign,
Maybe labour left the door ajar but the other team seems to have come in like tom cruise in mission impossible while grabbing slaters, (allegedly farrars), info
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8gigs of letters the correspondents expected to remain private. All about politicians and fringe operators. 6 weeks before an election. Of course the public will be interested. Not sure about real public concern. Some people get really concerned really quickly over normal behaviour these days.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good ideas and grumbles, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Sorry, did not mean to offend. Have not had as much experience chatting on internet as u guys. When I said not that many good kiwi songs I meant " not THAT many good kiwi songs" - relating to the huge quota percentage. I am only acting as a spokesperson for myself here. I can understand a nz musician would want to make it compulsory for the government to tell the public what to listen to because they would make money from that.
Maybe the general public would prefer 25 percent of all music they hear to be from nz. You could get an idea fro data mining everyone's spotify and YouTube choices.
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Quotas are weak. Ok in us they play 80% local content or whatever. Cos that's what the audience wants! Our people probably want a big chunk of us music too. 25 per cent nz music on the radio would be a tremendous turn off. There are not that many good kiwi songs.
Do commercial stations have to adhere to these strictures? I can hardly believe it. It's like I'm having a BBQ in New Plymouth and I'm told 20 percent of the music must be from taranaki. Get a life.