Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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I looked at nominating for the Media awards this year, as it was the first time I felt I'd written 3 posts worthy of nominating in a single calendar year. Then I looked at the category, and thought "best blog site, does it have to be the whole site, do I even qualify to nominate myself?" and then never got around to it, so it's nice to know I actually won :-)
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I just found that someone has edited together all the bits of "A Good Day" with the Future Leaders for Democracy in into into one video.
Enjoy!
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to Rochelle Wilson,
Is this in part an endeavour to counter the End Of Life Choice Bill currently before the Health Select Committee?
- so the populace won’t know of deliberate peaceful exits from Life?When the law changes, such a death could still be called a suspected suicide, you just couldn't describe the death as taking place in hospital.
I will note that the End of Life Choice Bill is not at a select committee. Rather, a select committee is investigating the law generally, with a view to making recommendations.
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Do we have to refer to the Japanese tactics in WW2 as “high risk aerial strike operations”?
Those will be overseas suicides. The extension of the law to those is the one select committee error that is is being fixed.
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Interestingly a Dunedin blogger will be in court soon over what may be just this issue, after apparently republishing something she thought was OK.
Based on the article, I would guess it was an allegation of a breach of an actual suppression order (it talks about a "coroner's finding"), but, of course, I don’t know.
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to Evan Roberts,
I'm concerned because I'm researching suicides by former WWI soldiers (in my sample, last once occurred in the 1960s).
You can report anything if you get permission from the Chief Coroner.
If there's a Coroner's finding that a death was a suicide, you can report that the death was a suicide. This is probably all you need. You just can't report the manner of death (eg shot himself).
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to Ross Mason,
I will no longer be able to report that the second wife of my great grandfather committed suicide by cutting her own throat?
You will need permission of the Chief Coroner before you do so publicly. You can still mention it in conversation.
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Legal Beagle: An update of changes to…, in reply to ,
That’s unfortunate. I see the damage that breakfast tv hosts could cause if they started cracking jokes about the details of specific suicides (and some of them would if thay could).
Agreed. I've no issue with a broadcasting standard to stop this. There's already a bit of one, although it could perhaps be stronger. Guideline 5a states:
Programmes should not actively promote serious antisocial or illegal behaviour, including violence, suicide, serious crime and the abuse of drugs.
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I did look for the footage the other day, and found it excerpted here:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/govt-rejects-tax-haven-claim-2012100818#axzz48DfUtovD -
Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to tom dale,
the video has been set to private, presumably because they called NZ a 'Tax Haven', as referenced in the response here
Is it possible that after TV3 lost the rights to the 60 Minutes name to Sky/Prime, they can no longer host footage bearing the 60 Minutes Trademark?