Posts by Russell Brown
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It was the prostate that tipped me off.
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Dannews gets political ...
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A special report produced by Glynis Bartlam on the social sites boom: who are the users and what are they doing? And we bet you didn't know Facebook was a front for the CIA ...
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"Out and proud lifelong Tory" Craig smacks those on the Right who seem to see John Dewar's fall as a victory for the dykeocracy.
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Don't think that's racism though - just petty nastiness most people grow out of, or at least learn to hide under the polite hypocrisy that makes life tolerable.
Work on that sentence a little and it has the germ of brilliance.
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I would never use the term coconut. It always seemed slightly worse that FOB on the scale of insults.
Yeah, FOB can be used affectionately. I'll never forget that when I went to a rapping competition in South Auckland in 1989 to scout talent for a dance party I was doing, there was an outfit called Run FOB. They weren't much good but the name was brilliant.
But yeah, my recall of "coconut" is definitely as a derogatory term for all PIs.
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it seems that in russell's case what you have is a slippage away from the medium being the reputable item (i.e. "anything in the NYT is reliable", to the person speaking being the reputable thing.
That's it. Readers can have a relationship with a blogger that they don't have any more with a masthead.
The fact that something appears under the Herald masthead is almost meaningless now. It could be good/bad/left/right.
Whereas if Keith or I write something about a particular topic, people will have a fair idea where we're coming from, and choose to disregard it, take it with a grain of salt or give it credence.
I think authority and trust have become detatched. The NYT still has authority, in that what it says matters and is widely heard. But the sources in which people place trust don't need to be grand. Classic example: snopes.com, the ultimate arbiter of urban myth --- and a husband-and-wife operation.
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Jason: yeah, an online-only newspaper is not going to earn the returns demanded by its shareholders.
A big part of the problem, especially at the bottom of the food chain in New Zealand, is that newspapers do make money, but instead of being invested, it's siphoned off to wherever the proprietor decides it's needed. Fairfax NZ helps up the company flagship, the Australian Financial Review. (The poor financial performance of many financial newspapers is remarkable.)
I wonder though whether a co-op, or a lean little owner-operated business (like PA, or TPM) has the same management cost structures as an old-school paper. I don't think they do. A journalist in the "screwed online newspaper" model is screwed because they can't support the admin and management staff and make a decent return on shareholders' funds. Josh Marshall just has to support himself...
I decided that Public Address had to become the mainstay of my income because print freelancing becomes less viable by the week. Fortunately, that's now the case. Now I get to lie awake nights wondering how many readers are being to the Firefox ad blocker by hostile agency creative ...
Getting beyond that stage - even to the stage of employing someone or spreading some money love amongst teh bloggers -- is quite a bit harder, especially when your main role still has to be being the content guy.
I've been doing quite a lot of organising (new Great Blend details early next week!), which is fine, except it's hard to also find time for the writing work that's currently slamming into deadlines all over the place.
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McGregor, for example, said that Russell was great, but actually, he is a journalist and not really a blogger. (Confusing the content with both the format and the medium.)
Actually, she said I use "old-fashioned journalistic techniques such as research to underpin a point of view," which is most flattering. I must now confess to not having read the whole speech until after I knocked out my first post above.
I had a whole rant prepared (actually, I've had it for the last three years) about how first-person factual reporting can actually be beneficial for breaking out of the talking-heads mode of journalism, where everything-is-just-someone's-opinion, and pointing out objective facts is considered as bias... but I'm going to keep my rant to myself for now, as actions speak louder than words, and I think it's more productive for all concerned if we let our work do the talking.
Dude, bust it out. I really liked the analysis in your AEJ article, and I'd like to hear you on that topic.
I'll buy you some good whisky* if you do it.
*(I can recommend the "Living Cask" Islay Malt that they bottle on demand at Whisky Galore.)
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you sure? because i reckon you could take him.
anyone give me odds on a bare-knuckle, brown vs. wishart?
Well clearly, he'd have God in his corner.
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