Posts by Craig Ranapia
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I think it was meant to be one of those faintly obscure in-jokes - Sixty Minutes? Well, I can fit just as much opinionated ignorance into 180 Seconds.
Now if you want clunky, how about __This House Has Seven Days__?
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Also, bloody wonderful watching them on Cllose Up - Daniel Zheng, Solomona Savelio, Sione Lolohea, Andrew Taia and Brian Luafalealo all seem to have the whole laconic to the point of coma, don't make a fuss mate Good Kiwi Bloke thing down. Did expect Mark Sainsbury to scream "will someone say something though. :)
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What's up with Mike Moore's comments in the Herald this morning? He slams 'the politics of personal attack' ie a 'return to Muldoonism' and yet ...
Well, I find the reaction entirely predictable - guess the truth hurts. Very amusing listening to Chris Trotter get very bitchy on NatRadio's The Panel today when Moore had the gall to read Trotter's 'courageous corruption' line back to him.
Putting the catty hyperbole aside, I think Moore actually has a serious point. I think it's hard to over-estimate the damage Muldoon did to the National Party when to an increasingly large proportion of the electorate he crossed the line between 'strong leader' and 'paranoid thug'. On the partisan tip, I don't give a damn if Labour falls into the same hole. As a citizen and more or less decent human being, I'd rather not see New Zealand politics fall any deeper into that particular sewer than it's already gone.
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Who is the Ad Agency for this Kiwi Saver campaign?
Well, the link I supplied links through to the full decision (in RTF format), and contains this gem:
No advertising agency was used in the creation or production of this advertisement.
Hum... so a case of our taxes stil hard at work, producing inaccurate and deceptive party propaganda? (To be clear: I don't really care if parties want to flush their money down the proverbial crapper, but I'd rather not have it done at public expense thanks.) Reminds me of a wonderful line from a Peter Cook/Dudley Moore sketch "I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly. I know my mistakes inside out." :)
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OK, I should be precise and say the decision was handed down by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board.
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Meanwhile you'd think the last thing any political party would want is to be on the receiving end of an upheld Advertsing Standards Authority complaint - especially when the subject is Kiwisaver, and you've been making noises recently about shonky finance companies, investment advisors and flat out loan sharks (whose adverts seem to be all over every Asian and PI media outlet in town).
Then again, what the hell do I know? I don't know if truth in advertising is a core value, a principle or an ideological construct. But I sure think it's a damn smart move on the party of any political party that wants to run a character campaign.
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Cheque in the mail for you, Robyn. Thanks NZ on Air!
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Not to dumb down the conversation or anything, but did anyone else read the article in last month's Metro and go "Damn, Chris Trotter was kinda hot in 1981"?
Not particularly...
I should have said, Craig, were you directly affected?
Um, you mean spending a good chunk of my time in a part of the world (the Eastern Bay of Plenty) that seems to get the sharp end of every stick? You bet your bippy. In the end, Jackie, being poor sucks arse regardless of where, or when, you're up against it and I get rather impatient with the nostalgic mythology that New Zealand was some kind of Eden before the 1984 general election. I guess it was if you were white, well-educated and middle-class (and being a heterosexual with a penis didn't do any harm either); the reality of life for my family was a little more complex.
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Nice to see the mention of boobies scores almost as many views in an hour than my last effort managed in a week... Memo to self: There's a lesson in here somewhere.
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Jackie:
It's flattering that you think I'm that young, but I was twelve in 1984, voted for the first time in 1990, and did not spend the term of the Fourth Labour Government with a canteen of silver spoons in my gob.
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