Posts by Rob Stowell
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Another great post from Political Scientist on what's happening to Chch schools- and how it fits the Govt's 'business plan' for NZ.
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Great work Browyn :-)
And The Press has been surprisingly good. I found this article "The Business of NZ Inc" nicely tied the govt's guiding inclinations to what they've been doing- and trying to do- in Chch- before and after the quakes.
Many people genuinely support the NZ Inc approach, believing it offers the best vision for prosperity. Which leaves those of us who'd rather gnaw our arms off than live in a National Corporation with something concrete to argue against.
A couple of opinion-pieces by Ian Maxwell also worth reading.
Some worthy leadership from the local rag.
Never ever dreamt I'd read a Press editorial scolding that the govtjustifies its move by saying little more than that the commissioners have done well and are suited to continue to supervise the province as it reorganises water and transport. Why an elected council could not do that job the Government does not say. Instead, it relies on the assertion that the commissioners provide efficiency, strong governance, effectiveness, problem-solving, stability.
Those are the justifications of every tin-pot dictator, echoing the sentiments of Suva. They count as nothing against the imperative of citizens controlling their governors by means of the ballot box, the free flow of information and the right of appeal.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Russell Brown,
that won’t be published until after the Naomi Wolf one …
Somewhat off topic-
Germaine has a go :) -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
It was solid, eh? I half-hoped for many more, but also feared many less. A beginning- long way to go, but ya gotta start :)
(Must have seen you, without knowing it!) -
If you want some distraction, Mitt Romney's views on beneficiaries (that is: all Democrats) are helping making sure he loses the election.
A minor gaffe? That's not how it's playing out- already on the front page of the NYT. -
Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
there are plenty of senior political journalists on the same rung of the career ladder as Armstrong who’ve been laid off (or strongly encouraged to jump first) by newspapers with a “sinking lid” – i.e. they’re just not replacing people who leave, especially if they’re expensive mid- or senior-grade reporters.
Good point.
Can't you just see Tim Murphy enthusiastically tweeting about an article in which Armstrong lambasts the Herald for laying off staff and bemoans the plight of the MSM in straitened times? Nah?
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
- How much the Hope and Wire premise sounds like Treme…
Mixed feelings about this myself. Gaylene is great. Treme has been great. And/but- this doesn’t feel like it’s for us. That’s ok, too. The Eastern are pretty cool...
But.
If it’s not terrific I’m gonna be antsy.
No pressure :) -
Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
the magazine’s notorious fact-checkers could query every clause of a piece and still miss the point.
Nice line... but isn't it a little better than out-sourced sub-editors who couldn't style a chicken's hair-do and think a macron is something you eat with cheese?
Yah gotta love that the NYer is staunchly behind all its journalism because they are bloody confident the facts will back them up.
Even when they're missing the point :) -
I’d forgotten there was even this short, ahm 14-week, ‘filibuster-proof’ majority, after Ted Kennedy died and before Scott Brown was elected.
But it was something less than iron-clad. Independent Bernie Sanders was a reliable vote. Independent (former Dem) Joe Lieberman, not so much. And some democratic senators (ahem, Ben Nelson, Nebraska) were pretty impossible to keep in line. -
Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
I actually don't think there's much ignorance of the realities of journalism from Gordon's corner.
When did Gordon stop being/working as a journalist and become a 'blogger'? I'm not sure where and how lines are drawn, but neither Werewolf nor Scoop are what I would call blogs.