Posts by Russell Brown
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Well, Russell, I know there's at least one APN journalist who isn't feeling particularly impressed with Cullen or Andrew Little either. As Audrey Young could testify :), no journalist or editor much likes being called a partisan whore by politicians and their proxies.
I quite enjoyed the blogfight with Colin Espiner, but I think it's quite clear that the report (by Audrey and Claire Trevett) on the impending clarification was not arranged by APN management, but the result of conventional political reporting: National had been hailing the (ahem) retraction to reporters, and Audrey and Claire simply followed it up.
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I've written something about Finn in this morning's post. I feel so sad about it.
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1) Embarrassing or Irritating Politicians is not considered grounds for a formal complaint.
And yet we're led to believe either Key or the party complained directly to APN executives and extracted this mysterious, superfluous "clarification".
No journalist likes that kind of thing, and I suspect there are a few on the Herald staff feeling quite unhappy about it.
You can hardly hear yourself for people screaming "move along, nothing to see here" at Kiwiblog, but it is weird, and, as I said, DPF would be all over it if the shoe had been on the other foot.
3) And, finally, I'm not the first person to note that there sure seems to be a correlation between those Parliamentarians who bitch the loudest about media bias aren't terribly scrupulous about smearing others from behind the skirts of parliamentary privilege.
Or just stick it in their email newsletter, as McCully did to me.
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SurveyUSA, the acknowledged winner of the 08 polling season, has come out with an electoral college vote poll of polls.
Both Democrat candidates beat McCain. Obama beats him by a little bit more.
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Oh, and I think a reasonable swap for the Get Across proposal is Richard Simpson's bloody well-argued proposal for a new bridge. I'll blog that again on Monday.
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Damn this nomdeplume! Now I see why RB wants us to post under our real names! Yes, I am indeed Sir Francis B Baden-Hawthorne, the world's foremost structural engineer and ...
No you're not. You're that bloke from the Thompson Twins.
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It seems to me that Colin made a rather dopey assertion (and one often repeated around here) that DPF - and The Herald itself -- were perfectly entitled to respond to. Then again, I don't really see the point of trying to rationally engage with people in the grip of a conspiracy theory.
I feel very confident indeed in saying that had the shoe been on the other foot, DPF and his readers would be going absolutely fscking mental right about now.
I'll go as far as saying I find the whole thing quite odd. Exactly what purpose does this "clarification" serve, and who decided it should be made?
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I would have thought a more accurate analysis of the Herald's editorial stance would include the selection, position and prominence of stories as well as editorials.
I suspect that the most interesting analysis of the editorials themselves would be of their language. But I'm not about to blow my weekend doing it ...
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I live in Newtown, and I take the bus every day, but if there was a cycle lane all the way in to the CBD, where I wouldn't have to ride on the road at all, I'd buy a bike and ride in. But as it is, I learnt to ride my bike in Tokyo, where we rode on the pavements, and so I'm terrified at the thought of actually riding in traffic.
There's an interesting dynamic for cycling in cities -- it's better if the traffic is completely poked. In London, I could shoot up between lanes of stationary cars (it was flat too) in relative safety, and get places very quickly. There was the odd nightmare stretch of course -- the Elephant & Castle roundabout was a doozy.
In Auckland, by contrast, there is little enough traffic that cars can travel fairly quickly, which is way more dangerous for a cyclist. And then there are the hills ...
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So are they like LCD Soundsystem, but with less battery life?
I prefer to think of them as Kraftwerk crossed with the B52s.
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