Posts by Russell Brown
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Sue, rights have to be balanced. Otherwise every time a celeb commits a crime that harms someone else in an interesting way, we'll have to hush it up, and that's not right either.
That's why I brought up the rugby player case. A lot of people were screaming about All Black special privileges, but in that case, I could accept that an experience (and not notably soft) judge had heard the facts in court, received a request for name suppression from the victim, and granted it.
That was the system behaving reasonably. Quite different from going outside the justice system altogether.
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Whispers here are that the Dompost haven’t finished yet. Not by a long shot.
Yes. I heard there's more tomorrow.
Out of fairness to RB, I won’t post it here, but I have on the Sportsfreak forum.
Ta. And hmmmm.
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I think you did - I'm so glad Danyl got to it before me - he's so much more eloquent with the put downs.
Indeed: that was a put-down equal to the challenge of addressing the colossal stupidity of the original comment.
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Veitch gets the Tui treatment.
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the other worrying thing here is the alleged time lapse between when the injuries were sustained and ms dunne-powell reached the hospital. i would hate to think what might have been happening in that period of time.
That troubles me a lot too.
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Aren't there quite a few precedents for (sports-related) public figures getting away with domestic violence accusations relatively unscathed?
No, I think in general they've been prosecuted and dealt with in ways commensurate with the offence. The idea that All Blacks habitually get away with these things is hard to stand up.
Didn't [name under suppression redacted -- please try not to do this --RB] get dropped for dragging his partner out of the house by her hair?
This is the case I referred to in the post. The player's wife left the house in a nightgown after an argument, and he tried to drag her back to the house (not, so far as the details were reported, by the hair). It was an assault, but it barely compares with the current case.
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Coleman made mention of the fact that under National TVNZ would have to make ratings data available, and I have to say I like that. (as sad as it would make me)
Yeah, that was in the policy stuff too: I couldn't see the point of it.
AGB Nielsen Media Research ratings data are available at 9.30 every morning to anyone who wants to subscribe to them. Is Coleman planning to force TVNZ to publish research belonging to a private company? I'm sure Nielsen will be thrilled.
I kind of took that part to be meaningless tub-thumping, really.
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Recommended to me by a Canadian friend (blah blah Stephen Moffat blah blah), and we've since passed around most of our friends. Nesbitt is brilliant.
I only watched it last night. There are obvious parallels with Moffatt's work on Doctor Who and Nesbitt's stretch-and-squeeze performance was one of the most arresting things I've seen on TV for ages.
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Can anyone confirm that Charter money was in fact used on Sensing Murder?
I watched part of Sensing Murder last night, for the first time. I was shouting at the television after two minutes. I knew I wouldn't dig it, but I was unprepared for quite how weird and manipulative that programme is. It made me shudder.
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__Them's some scarey folk at kiwiblog. Perhaps David could name and shame people who make such comments?__
Paul: Personally, I'd not have posted on this topic at all, and if I'd felt compelled to, I'd have put all comments in a moderation queue and weeded the psychos out. But, in the end, it's his house and his rules.
True. I'd do it differently, put it that way. But, then, those guys would have been dismembered by the PA Women's XV if they'd tried that here. They're clearly not very bright.
Ironically, I suspect the real toll on David from giving the nutcases free reign would be commercial, assuming he's serious about generating advertising revenue. There aren't many advertisers who want to sit next to that kind of slime.
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