Yellow Peril: Asian Angst: is it time to send some payback?
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I heard Stephen Franks on The Panel and it was an odd performance. It sounded to me that he didn't believe what he was saying. He was putting out the standard "what were once protectors of freedom of speech are now oppressors of it" line without any conviction because he knew that he was defending a bucket of crap. And he knew that he was wrong but was prepared to take a bullet for the team. Very odd but then I'm pretty used to feeling like I'm in an alternate universe when Mr. Franks is talking.
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Press Council: complaint upheld.
Codding*ton: they didn't mention the stats at all, so the stats must be correct!
Press Council: didn't want to insult the intelligence of our readers. -
And you have your scalp:
North & South editor Langwell resignsCongrats to all involved.
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North & South magazine editor Robyn Langwell has been forced out of the job she has held for 22 years.
A source close to Langwell has confirmed the editor is to step down from the role, with June 23 set to be her final day on the job.
Rumours of her impending departure began circulating yesterday, when subscribers received the July issue of the magazine, featuring an editorial by Langwell, entitled Golden Moments.
In the column, Langwell described her job as editor as "the role I love" and paid tribute to the writers and designers at North & South, commending their talent and tenacity.
It is understood that Langwell is not leaving of her own volition and lawyers are involved in the matter.
ACP Media, which owns the title, is believed to have made Langwell redundant as part of a restructuring move.
ACP group publisher Deborah Millar was unavailable for comment today but yesterday told the Business Herald she expected to confirm changes to the company by the end of this week.
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Wow. Result!
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hoist with her own petard!
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Bruce Hucker gone down as well?
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Uh oh, spaghettios!
But it's not us, it's just restructuring... right? But that's what it says...
I mean, editors have such a redundant role (in some magazines), they're always the first ones to go.
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Apparently Hucker-bee jumped as he was pushed by a group of councillors. His role in promoting the huge rise in water costs over the next ten years (9-10% per annum) saw him become electoral poison for the city vision ticket. He has however only resigned as leader of that particular ticket. He is still deputy mayor and no doubt will run again come the next round of local body elections.
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And it seems like NnS has came to their senses and arranged (codding)*(ton____) to write something less controversial and require very little stats fudging: "Happy pigs live a stress-free live, produce better meat". Which is probably a good move as column about pigs "usually" requires alot less fact checking.
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And you have your scalp:
North & South editor Langwell resignsCongrats to all involved.
It's not so classy to gloat. I can imagine she's feeling pretty sad being pushed out after more than two decades. North & South was never my favourite magazine, and the Asian Angst episode has been a particularly shabby one, but there's something remarkable about staying in that kind of job so long. And they have run some good features over the years.
I'm actually pretty sure that the Press Council slamdunk isn't the reason anyway - I mean, like ACP cares.
They want to reposition the magazine to try and draw back some readers (and some younger readers) and it appears that abolishing the position of editor altogether was the only way of getting Langwell to go.
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It's not so classy to gloat. I can imagine she's feeling pretty sad being pushed out after more than two decades.
I agree with Russell. My schadenfreude has run out by now, personally. I hear it was on the cards for a long time - but it's possible that the Press Council decision gave them a useful timing opportunity for lowering the axe. Hmm, ugly mixed metaphors, oh well.
I actually take more pleasure in seeing someone with one of the most obvious Chinese-guy partial pseudonyms ever (hello Kenneth.Y!) posting for the first time on PA.
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And they have run some good features over the years.
I'd certainly take North and South of 10 - 15 years ago over Listener now. My main beef with them back then was that for a Magazine that was supposed to be nationwide - a counterpoint to Metro, if you like - Langwell's vision seemed to begin and end at the North Shore on more than a few occasions.
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It's not so classy to gloat.
Certainly not, Russell, and dare I say it there are some sections of the MSM (and bloggers, come to that) who don't have any moral high ground to posture on where Langwell or North and South is concerned. The Herald - and its Sunday tabloid - might want to be the first in line for some quiet self-reflection, because I've heard too many stories about that organ that sound more like Eli Roth-does-__The Office__ than anything else.
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The Herald - and its Sunday tabloid - might want to be the first in line for some quiet self-reflection
"Labour endorses child molesting!" for example.
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"Labour endorses child molesting!" for example.
There's very little in the way of untrammelled malevolence I wouldn't lay at the feet of Hullum Klark and the Liarbore Dykeocracy (and that's sarcasm folks, please don't bust a blood vessel), but really...
In a sane would I'd automatically assume you're (crudely) taking the piss, rodgerd - and if we're thinking about the same story, it was another case of a reasonable hard news story getting smothered under the tabloid hysterics. Don't really see who won that game.
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Did love to hear (on the appologists Nat Radio) Coddington say she wrote for the readers not management or advertisers -the boycott may be the ultimate reason for Langwell & now Coddingtons timely end at North & South.
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Say what? Coddington's tenure also over?
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On Nat Radios Morning Report Coddington said her contract expires in a month and she will not be renewing it.
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merc,
Perhaps she could find a gig here? Sure it may not pay but she could recover some cred. Maybe some articles on Crime Tides and stuff.
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