Posts by Pete Sime
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Hard News: The Treasure at the End of…,
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I really enjoyed having my iPad in hand following Twitter while watching the events unfold on Parliament TV. It's a really great way of fostering political engagement - people not only speaking up while watching on from the peanut gallery, but engaging in conversation. And the character limit prevents screeds of diatribes from being posted.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,
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I had a wonderful daytrip down to the Catlins today. Here's some pictures from Curio Bay and the petrified forest.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,
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I drove out to the lookout at Port Chalmers yesterday and had a look around.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,
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I'm quite lucky to have this just behind my back fence. This is my first summer in this house. The birdsong an the stream make it quite tranquil in my backyard.
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Hard News: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,
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I'm happy with the silver position. I was raised on Vegemite, anyway.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…,
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WOTY: Marmageddon, Fink.
WOTD: Obama (who'd have thought a decade ago a black guy would win the presidency in a landslide. Twice.)
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread,
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Rachel Maddow examines Obama's record. She concludes that it is a strong one and wonders why he didn't campaign on it.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Islander,
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how omnivourously we are interested in...us.
Quite. I was looking through the Grey River Argus on Papers Past. The outbreak of World War One merited page 5 coverage.
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Does the Maggie Barry rule of parliamentary commentary now apply to media criticism?
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I think between the Leveson Inquiry, Gina Rinehart's Fairfax shenanigans and the commercial imperative that infuses New Zealand's media, the public has a right to be suspicious of journalists in the Anglo-Saxon media culture. Outrage and sensationalism gets bums on seats and the more of that, the happier a network board is with the advertising revenue.
