Posts by Euan Mason

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  • Hard News: Media3: Panic or Peril?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    Just the facts…
    We’re from the Government,
    we’d like to help…

    Yeah, my Mum sheepishly produced the "Sex and the adolescent boy" pamphlet when I was in my late teens. I appreciated the thought and care behind the gesture, and it was very funny to read the government's take on a what I'd known for the best part of a decade.

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  • Hard News: Thatcher,

    What a great pity her unbelievably nasty policies didn't die with her.

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  • Hard News: Done like a dinner,

    Completely agree. The irony is that this government is probably history for this and other reasons like privatisation of our assets. It failed to appreciate that Rio Tinto handed it a golden opportunity to back away from privatisation, which is one of its most unpopular policies. By standing up to a multinational it could have won the next election, even with increases in tax for the rich that would have been required to make up for lost asset sales revenue.

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  • Hard News: An Easter whip-round,

    Done

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  • Hard News: We need to talk about Kevin,

    "Personally, I’m more interested in the fact that a pretty stale orthodoxy in the format of TV current affairs is being shaken up a little than that some of those attempts at shaking up haven’t immediately worked out."

    Yes, but Seven Sharp is a new low.

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  • Hard News: Photoshocks, in reply to David Hood,

    I cited the disqualified winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest

    National Geographic has an interesting policy and an understandable aversion to image manipulation that creates unreal images, but I think it has to change somewhat. NG bought and published this image which is as it came out of the camera, but did want this one even though the latter required far more talent to produce than the former. The latter image wasn't even considered because in order to show that level of detail from the nebula 60 images were needed, with various images at different exposures and with unsharp masking to bring out the dust clouds. It seems manipulation of camera settings is ok, but manipulation post camera is not, even if everything in the image is real.

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  • Hard News: Media3: Where is Broadcasting?,

    I agree with all of you, but how do we fix it? I can't see the Nats & ACT doing anything worthwhile in broadcasting because it would violate their religious devotion to the invisible hand of the market. Have Labour or the Greens got any viable solutions?

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  • Hard News: First, admit it's broken,

    If Americans want to see what their international status will be later this century, then they should look at Britain. Both empires have been stifled by costly wars and somewhat irrational realpolitik, accompanied by an erosion of their core values.

    I find myself strangely sad. I guess it was comforting that the global superpower spoke the same language as me. No I'm not referring to English, but to the the language of human rights, opportunity, decency and democracy. It has been startling to see its departure from those values in recent years.

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  • Hard News: The mathematics of marriage,

    I should have added (5) one of many wives with no husbands or (6) married with a sole wife, and in either case I'd have fewer worries than in cases 2 and 4.

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  • Hard News: The mathematics of marriage,

    Very interesting posts from all of you on this issue. I've been married with the same person for over 30 years and no doubt this affects my perspective. I find myself asking whether or not I would be more concerned for one of my children if she became (1) the sole wife with one husband, (2) one of several wives with a single husband, (3) one of several wives with several husbands or (4) the sole wife with many husbands. I think I'd fear more for her harm in situations 2 and 4 than in situations 1 or 3. Power relations are important in any marriage, and it seems more might go wrong for her in situations 2 and 4, where she would be more likely to emerge emotionally scarred.

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