Posts by Geoff Lealand
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It was a good show and an overdue debate. Nevertheless I thought there was too much flowing around--comments drowned out, statements uncompleted--and bit too much maleness, generally. It would have worked better with 3 people and bit more bossiness from Russell, I reckon. But nice to see fellow academics getting some space in air.
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It was a good show and an overdue debate. Nevertheless I thought there was too much flowing around--comments drowned out, statements uncompleted--and bit too much maleness, generally. It would have worked better with 3 people and bit more bossiness from Russell, I reckon. But nice to see fellow academics getting some space in air.
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I must add: excellent Media 7 last week. It is a pleasure to listen into such long and interesting conversations.
I hope that Media 7 is not being eyed up, in the latest round of TVNZ cuts. For all the talk about the TVNZ dividend to the Govt, Labour really did miss the opportunity to remedy this when it was in power.
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Tremendous.
I agree. In the pursuit of enlightenment, I put in Paul Henry is a twit, which produced 14,600 pages (but, with quotes, only one). Not sure what is proves but, to use the city analogy above, we all need good street guides--which ought to be one of the primary roles of education.
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Well, there will be two of us. I don't have any opinion on David Bane but I still wonder who killed the Kahui twins.
Great travels, Graham--look forward to reading more.
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I'd sell tickets to that
..and I would make a group booking!
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I used to look out for other people on the train reading Harpers magazine but never saw a one. A lonely club, I was.
I remember once reading a suggestion that single women travelling alone at night on the London Underground felt safer if a fellow male traveller or two was reading The Guardian or New Statesman--rather than The Sun or Daily Mail.
My newspaper experiences started when I sold The Hawera Star at the local races (you could alway spot a winner, for a possible bonus!), then graduated to maintaining their clippings library, and then doing rewrites of items from other papers (my first encounter with plaigarism?). My father ran the giant, clanking Cosser printing press.
This was in the days when a small town of 'round 10,000 in South Taranaki could sustain a daily newspaper. -
The problem is that the damage is already. It might be worth taking a complaint to the Press Council but, in my experience, it is rather a toothless old dog.
I am heading to "The Future of Journalism" conference at Cardiff University later this year but, given the latest Herald transgressions, I sometimes wonder whether the profession deserves a future.
Very good work , Keith (this posting and the Media 7 critique)
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And cheese. Honestly I cannot get over how average-to-awful cheese is in New Zealand.
Having polished off some rather good Karikaas mature Leyden after dinner, I can't entirely agree with you...and having just had some Mercer medium cumin on crackers for lunch, I would argue that Europe is not necessarily the only place for all that is aromatic and tasty..
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Re the WSJ article: it is another demonstration of how facile and superficial any analysis of New Zealand politics/economics/culture is, when the Northern Hemisphere media occasionally gazes our way. There was a short piece in The Guardian Weekly a couple of weeks ago (about the haka) which was also rather silly.
Any thoughts about National's decision to take us back to the 1950s, and reinstate sirs and dames? It has always seemed to me that 'sir'=servile.