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And just for completeness (have trumpet, will blow), New Zealand's premiere news site, stuff.co.nz, won the best sports site and best news story categories.
Congratulations to the Scoop guys for being up there in both the Netguides and Qantas awards.
But most importantly congratulations and thanks Russell & crew for PA.
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congratulations and thanks Russell & crew for PA.
Yes Sir.
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Yes indeed - great you got the recognition.
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I might be biased, but I thought the introduction of internet categories to the Qantases this year added real interest to an event that has always been about "old" media.
*ahem* Indeed, and congratulations.
But,,, I do hope we're going to see a few less columns huffing and puffing about what a pack of lying, psychotic douche bags bloggers are. Yes, there's plenty of nut bags in the blogisphere but one might think some sections of the old media (and I'll not harsh the buzz by naming names), really need to clean up their own act before getting Miss Manners on anyone else's arse.
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Congrats to Russell and the team.
The Herald website's report on Simon Collins' protest was so priceless I had to save it and share:
Media protest at Qantas Awards
May 19, 2007
By Simon CollinsJournalists protesting about contracting-out plans at newspapers and magazines owned by APN took to the stage at the Qantas Media Awards in Wellington last night.
Union delegate Simon Collins, winner of the investigative reporting award, was joined by four colleagues, unfurling a banner and calling for the Herald publisher to halt its outsourcing of subediting jobs to Australian company PageMasters.
The byline has now been changed to NZPA. I don't know if the original attribution was an error, but I just love the idea of a one-man reporter, protester and award-winner all included in a two sentence story!
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But,,, I do hope we're going to see a few less columns huffing and puffing about what a pack of lying, psychotic douche bags bloggers are. Yes, there's plenty of nut bags in the blogisphere but one might think some sections of the old media (and I'll not harsh the buzz by naming names), really need to clean up their own act before getting Miss Manners on anyone else's arse.
I think that's why I'm so pleased about Friday night: it really felt that we were moving past that attitude. And as Don indicates, there were people on the online side of the major news operations who felt some vindication too.
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Congrats to you all.
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First they came for the clothing workers and the reporters said nothing, for they were not clothing workers.
Then they came for the washing-machine makers and the reporters reported nothing, for they were not makers of washing-machines.
Then they came for the reporters...
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Well deserved. Take another bow :)
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"I do hope we're going to see a few less columns huffing and puffing about what a pack of lying, psychotic douche bags bloggers are."
I think that's because a huge amount of their inspiration and material is coming from bloggers. Just a feeling, no evidence for that.
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I think that's because a huge amount of their inspiration and material is coming from bloggers. Just a feeling, no evidence for that.
I agree, I've seen a few items in NZ papers this last 18 months or so that seem to have taken their direction from blogs, this one included
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Sorry to be so mean-spirited, though I'm sure Russell can more than handle it - but - does anyone still believe the Qantas media awards mean anything? Doesn't it always seem like they share them out about evenly around all the companies, and if someone misses out they make up for it the next year?
In fact, is there anyone who's been working in journalism for more than about four years who HASN'T won a Qantas?
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William:
Some of the harshest critics of the Qantas Media Awards are the very people who've just stuffed a hunk of perspex in their handbags -- and what's an award show without some luxurious angst about how utterly meaningless it all is?
But.. if Public Address Radio is up for something at the RBA NZ Radio Awards next year, it will take Russell and a tazer capable of bringing down an elephant to keep moi away from the rubber chicken and orgiastic self-congratulation. :)
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excellent scoop on the androidss video russell. I remeber the show but have no idea who the presenter is. does that sound like a different version of the song to you? I'll have to dig out my copy and compare.
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Acceptance of blogs by the mainstream media is all very nice, but you'll know it's gone to far when Tony O'Reilly realises that there are 40,000 people out there writing content for *free*.
When that happens the Herald (Indy, Irish Indy, Cape Times, etc) will become "the free newspaper that anyone can edit".
Of course they will be packed full of tendentious, opinionated, bollox. But how will we tell the difference - Garth George actually has a (presumably) paid column.
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When I was in Korea there were blog sites that posted the footage of the Korean who was beheaded in Iraq.
The Korean governments reaction was to block all acess to blogspot.com for a period of about a week or so and maybe other blog sites though i can't recall well.
So frustrating and so typical of the ridiculous reactionary errr.... reactions of the powers that be.
All censorship does is creates a bigger hole down the line for you to fall into because more people start shovelling your grave.
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Sometimes, over thinking a thing isn't necessary, people. Meanwhile - congratulations, Russell. It's a nice thing to be recognised for what you do, and you do it very well.
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Sue,
oh congratulations, not only is the award itself an achievement, but the acknowledgment by old media of the importance of new media truly ROCKS!
plus it's great the scoop network as a group did so well.
hopefully it brings you all more sponsors and the ability to truly live off this thing. -
I unexpectedly have strangely mixed feelings about this.
Looking at the winners of the Qantas Media Awards website section, all of them seem to be websites run by professional writers, trained journalists.
It's not the grass roots blogging of the olden days. It's mainstream media.
Not that there's anything wrong with that! But it's caused me to subtly shift how I view the Hard News blog and Public Address.
It's like rather than pretending that Russell is just another blogger, suddenly it's been underscored that Hard News is much more than that. It's like a different sub-genre of blog has been created.
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congrats russell. but robyn's both right and wrong.
wrong because hard news had ever-so-slowly become part of the msm. many of us remember the guerilla bfm daze.
but, right. because, as they say "u iz in ma internets, taykin all ma awads"
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Yeah congratulations Russell
Che has correctly pointed out that the spiky headed multi-substance fueled louts that pogoed like there was no tomorrow have now become the establishment tut tutting at the inexplicable activities of youth ( its always someone else's kids)
For me, the attraction of the hard news days was in the irreverence to the msm conventions and the unexamined angles and usually accurate alternative information sources.
There will always be an angle represented by blogs that will be ahead of all msm trends because we don't have to kowtow to the owners wishes. The world is a richer and better informed place because of it.
Rock on Russ -
congrats russell. but robyn's both right and wrong.
wrong because hard news had ever-so-slowly become part of the msm. many of us remember the guerilla bfm daze.
Quite right, of course. The reason I started hard News (apart from my chronic need to editorialise) was that I felt people like me and my friends never got heard in the media. I was workin' for the dole.
Since then, the media have become far more accomodating of niches - a trend driven to a large extent by the internet - and I've gotten more respectable. As I observed in a Metro thinkpiece several years ago, I appear to have become part of some establishment.
But I still feel more akin to my fellow netizens than to most working journalists. The fact that I shared a table with Ana Samways, Stephen Shaw, Alastair Thompson, Selwyn Manning, Lyndon Hood, Kevin List, etc is what made for a very different awards experience. I'm culturally internet, I think.
but, right. because, as they say "u iz in ma internets, taykin all ma awads"
I made u an award. But I eated it ...
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but can you convert a Qantas Media Award to Qantas Airmiles?
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There is guerilla video footage of Paul Reynolds' speech in the Scoop Awards Coverage. Scroll down, if you see a fetching photo of my jugular, you've gone too far.
And congratulations of course, well deserved.
I recall there's a quote somewhere of Eugene Ionesco, sounding pained about having somehow become part of the establishment. And he wrote a play about people turning into rhinoceroses, so it's not as if you'd be in bad company.
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