Posts by Craig Ranapia
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can i attempt a thread-jack here?
favourite bFM adverts:NO PANTS!
Eww... did I really need that mental picture of Mikey Havoc?
That is true. There would be 50% silence. Koan for Craig: What is 50% of zero silence? Hint: You won't find the answer in the noise.
Thanks for messing with my head, Ben. I would love to be able to block out the self-promotion on National Radio (which is advertising in drag).
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And more Mondo Weirdo from Reuters: even Keef Richards occupies moral high ground re: rock tar drug use without looking like a total dong.
Has the world gone mad?
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WOO-HOO indeed. But would someone tell frigging Reuters that countries don't win Grammies. Only Eurovision, of which least said soonest mended.
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A dirty sexy monkey would be funnier.
Not as much fun as you might think, believe me. And am I bad person for admitting that Dirty Sexy Money has now replaced America's Next Top Model as must-see guilty pleasure TV. :)
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Russell:
Can you please remove the nauseatingly cute banner ad for the nauseatingly cute Pushing Dasies? I'm lapsing into a diabetic coma as we speak... :) (Beautifully produced shows with the kind of lusciously quirky production values you'd expect in a Wes Anderson film, BTW, but a little whimsy goes a very long way.)
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Implying something? or just angrily opposed to coherent paragraphs...
Might even have been a rather clumsy bit of filler, thrown in on deadline to bring the column up to length. I guess it would be entirely fair comment to say Hard News is Russell's shop window and it is pastel pink-ish in political complexion. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say on Seinfeld.
But why bring the EFA into it? If Russell regularly "defends the Government" on anything, I'd have to say it's more on the geeky tip of public policy than anything else. But, hell, you could say the same about DPF -- and neither man is exactly a tame bitch on that score.
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<blockquote>But I think the Dems will have to consider the will of a large number of voters in a state that has played a pivotal role in the past (remember 2000).</blockquote>
Why? Sorry if this sounds harsh, but unless the DNC clearly and egregiously over-reached (and without getting into the Kalfkaesque realm of American machine politics I don't think that's the case) it's tough tittle for breakfast, lunch and dinner. One proposal I've seen bruted around is that 'make-up' caucuses be held in Florida and Michigan. Don't see that being ideal in anyone's book-- but who was it who said the definition of the perfect 'compromise is 'the solution where all parties are equally unhappy'.
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You might be pleased (or not, as the case may be) to find out the __Media 7__ Depreciation Society is open for business. I see rich merchandising opportinities... :)
Now I've got to go watch the news. Purely for research purposes...
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Ironically, I'm at liberty to tell you all this because some of it has been broached in a column in the Herald's business supplement on Friday morning. The first I knew of it was in an email from a reader that said: "John Drinnan seems to imply you have the programme because you support the Labour Govt and the EFA."
John and I have had a frank, but personal, exchange about the story. He insists there was no such implication, and I take him at his word. But the Electoral Finance Act still seems an odd and arbitrary thing to associate with the show, which is part of my professional life: not "founding host of Mediawatch", or "made panel discussions sort of hip" or "wrote 'digital future' papers for public media agencies", "won the first Qantas award for blogging", or even "blagged the beer for Kiwi Foo Camp", but …the EFA?
Um, yes... David pointed the item out to me, and I briefly considered dropping Mr. Drinnan a line suggesting that Labour Party sock puppets don't give regular air time (and a very free hand) to dyspeptic Tories ... but thought better of it.
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Craig, you're assuming an equivalence in 'on-messageness' and power which simply doesn't exist in the USA.
I'm assuming that the left-wing of a turkey is much of a muchness as the right one. And I also think it's just a wee bit naive to assume that if McCain secures the nomination, let alone wins the election, he's getting any kind of free ride.
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