Posts by Russell Brown

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  • Hard News: Ready to Fly,

    Can't find any link for video of DC's story on the linked-to Close Up page.
    A little help, please?

    To the right, under Related Video: 'Melting Pot or Not?'

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Ready to Fly,

    like the rest of that island nation, Singapore's coffee shops are quite odd

    If ever a nation had no soul....

    No, it's a Vietnamese coffee shop. Much more soulful.

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  • Hard News: Ready to Fly,

    Sigh ... Phil Wallington has now weighed in on the Press Council story, declaring ""That article was absolutely fine - it's freedom of speech".

    Let me explain this in terms simple enough for a former Holmes producer to grasp.

    ACP publications, including North & South, voluntarily subscribe to Press Council standards. The Press Council found that Coddington's story fell short of the standards relating to accuracy and discrimination. As a consequence, North & South is obliged to print part of the Press Council's ruling. That's it.

    No one's free speech has been abridged. But North & South has fallen short of standards it chose to adopt.

    Like Franks, Wallington seems to think the Press Council is a good thing so long as it never finds in favour of the public.

    He went on to talk about journalism as a career for young people, particularly among ethnic minorities. I think I have two young journalists here who understand that quite a bit better than he does.

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  • Hard News: Ready to Fly,

    Russell, I believe you have linked the Time story on Vietnam by mistake where you intend to link the Panal podcast.

    Thanks. Fixed now.

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  • Hard News: Ready to Fly,

    Craig, if I didn't know you as a man of integrity, I'd think you were just having us on there ...

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  • OnPoint: Cooked goose, chicken, etc.,

    RB - there may be some bots that you have trouble stopping

    Miaow.

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  • OnPoint: Cooked goose, chicken, etc.,

    I doubt that North & South will. To sack Coddington would be an admission of guilt, which would put Robyn Langwell's head on the block, too. Which I think would be fair enough, but I suspect that the publisher wants to make as little of a scene as possible.

    I presume you haven't heard: they're doing away with editors at Metro and and North & South, with an ACP managing editor overseeing both magazines. Metro's editorship is vacant since Lauren Quaintance left, but the gossip is that the whole thing is a way of easing out Robyn Langwell. Not much fun for everyone else though.

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  • Yellow Peril: Asian Angst: is it time to…,

    Does it strike anyone else as weird that these staunch defenders of indivuality and personal freedom have picked racial profiling and forced deportation as free speech issues worth taking a stand on?

    Well, to be fair, Franks also went mightily into bat for homophobes. And he even spoke at the annual convention of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, which has a three-decade history of trying to limit what New Zealanders can see or hear. He never even gives the impression of feeling conflicted.

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  • Yellow Peril: Asian Angst: is it time to…,

    All that is happening is that the publication will to publish the Press Council decision. Does Franks not understand this?

    He's either lying or more stupid than I thought. I'm on this tomorrow, for sure.

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  • Yellow Peril: Asian Angst: is it time to…,

    Nothing to do with us, says Rodney Hide:

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4091490a6160.html

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