Posts by giovanni tiso
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The media are slightly less circumstances - and on the Herald's home page for instance you'll see a longer list.
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Anthony Hubbard weighs in on the imagined community. Second half is about the welfare working group - a pretty good example of appropriate political pivot, in my view, but reader beware if it's not your thing.
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(Naturally nobody is saying that we're all equally affected. But what Emma said - that Cantabrians need to feel the solidarity of the rest of us, and the rest of us need Cantabrians to put their experience in words in order to begin to understand what it feels like - was crucial I thought.)
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to recordari,
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to recordari,
Can I just say, while we do appreciate the sentiment about how much we are suffering not having our houses destroyed, our families displaced, our work, livelihoods, schooling, toiletries disrupted, that we'll cope.
This is about 'you'. We would love to be able to do more, but over time we'll hopefully work out how best to do that.
I thought that what Emma expressed quite beautifully was a very valid point, actually. It's about all of us. It's about the bereaved, the people in Christchurch who didn't lose their home or any of the loved ones, the people in the rest of the country or overseas who felt a connection to Canterbury and the wider New Zealand community. I thought that it was also the point of Emily Perkins' lovely piece for the Guardian, that she could quite legitimately write as a non-witness, a non-Cantabrian.
It's about all of us. Just like it is a duty of all of us to participate how we can in the relief and the reconstruction.
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So long as it's done respectfully, I don't think it's inappropriate to discuss the political implications of how we move forward at this point. It's still going to be about the welfare of the people of Christchurch, ultimately. And they're going to need us to have their back for months if not years to come.
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For those who might have missed Emma's tweet, the Haywoods are due to appear on Nat Radio at 11.45 minutes, ie less than 15 minutes.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Philip Matthews is not only alive, but writing as beautifully as ever.
Yes.
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In the meantime, Jim Mora gets the panel yapping about Lybia and we're suddenly reminded that RNZ is not perfect. Crikey.
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I feel that the pressure to keep producing these segments, and the consequent brutal questioning of people who should be left alone, is a large-scale error of editorial judgement.
There's the brutal questioning and then there's the injection of extra pathos, with the anchor as high priest channeling the nation's grief. I stayed well away from John Campbell this time after his antics with the Pike River CEO - that was atrocious.
But I feel like I need to repeat this, again: RNZ has been just fantastic. Respectful, informative, always on. What an example.