Posts by Jonathan Maze

  • Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,

    Alternative facts.

    Virtue signalling.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Extraordinary Powers,

    That anti-vaccine thing was completely over-blown and Bill - the most annoyed I've ever seen him - defended himself against the misinterpretation of his comments the following week. I found it interesting the way the left attacked him more than the right over this, the self righteousness displayed was unbelievable. He and Stewart are both brilliant interviewers while maintaining the humour (they are also friends). Maher tries less to be all things to all people and does not care who he offends and has incredible guts - hence "Real Time" . Not many people will go on Bill O'Reilly and stick it straight to him. Best thing on TV.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Extraordinary Powers,

    If they get the Daily Show they should get Bill Mahers Real Time. Bill is just as big as Jon Stewart in the US and it is huge pity he isn't better known in the rest of the world. Apart from torrent sites (which are flooded minutes after the show finishes it's live broadcast on Friday nights) his podcast is free on iTunes.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Munter and the Munted,

    Outrageous Fortune, definitely NZ's best show ever in my book. Regarding James Griffin you forgot to mention "Spin Doctors" mocking the PR industry (could there be a worthier target?) which was seriously underrated. I recall a priceless letter to the Herald from an aggrieved PR agency guy commenting that not all PR company owners were pretentious, Audi driving, vineyard owning tossers. His self important seriousness somewhat undermined his point. I'm sure the writers had a chuckle about that one.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Public Address: Technical Profile,

    Fascinating stats. I love Chrome, Firefox may as well be IE 6 by comparison.

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  • Hard News: Invasion of the pagan matrons,

    "I thought about the extent to which WOW is for, by and about women. More than two thirds of the 33-strong production team, including the event's founders and creative leaders, are women."

    Having spent a bit of time there Fashion Week in Auckland is the same, it's run by and for women.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Beautiful Images,

    Yes Seven Days was outstanding, I was very impressed and a lot better than most of the BBC shows I have heard or seen. Somehow I had never seen Pulp Sport before either which also extremely funny.

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  • Michael Jackson: A Life?,

    I remember in '77 settling in to watch the Flintstones on TV after school and seeing that Elvis Presley had died. They had interrupted normal programming which was a big deal back and had interviews with distraught middle aged women which I remember struck me as pretty interesting. We used to get the Las Vegas Heavy weight fights interrupting the Flintstones about once a year too if I recall rightly.

    Whatever MJ did he certainly did it well. He has world-class once-in-a-life-time weird at the end.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Footnotes,

    I'm glad you are giving Martin van Beynen's article some publicity. It is an important piece as it is the first by someone who sat through the trial and who trenchantly disagrees with the verdict. Also because he is a good old fashioned newspaper journalist we don't have Joe Karam jumping up in the middle of it and dismissing it as fantasy or nonsense live on TV or radio.

    Here is my letter The Press published yesterday:

    Thank you for Martin van Beynens quietly devastating opinion piece on the Bain retrial. It was an excellent contrast to the Auckland based media honchos who abased themselves before the Bain team in the post trial media circus in exchange for access. In return they were shamelessly spun by Joe Karam and company. Mr van Beynen lays out the case plainly. He lifts the forensic fog that the jury clearly got themselves lost in and lays bare the courtroom theatrics from defence counsel. This retrial is not the heroic drama Mr Karam has scripted for himself but a shabby spectacle in which a guilty man has walked free.

    There was a highly complimentary one from good old Brian Priestley too apparently

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Rodney's Folly,

    No, that was the nineties when the centre of public debate was way out in right-field, such as the example I gave of the shoe manufacturer and as detailed in RBs excellent posts from the era linked above. Times have changed, the world, and the country has moved on. As for Hide he has grown up a lot politically, especially since he became an electorate MP.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2007 • 29 posts Report Reply

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