Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Sacha,
Wow, the comments there do nothing to change my opinion it’s a matter of when not if one of David Farrar's resident trolls land him on the thick end of a successful defamation action.
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Legal Beagle: Fact check: Q+A on mayoral…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I did not call them journalists. My mention of “journalist” in the last paragraph is a reference to the journalists who were present on the panel.
And considering certain sections of the commentariat have been screaming for Brown's resignation for the best part of a week, you'd think someone would have answered the bleeding obvious question. Isn't that what journalists do?
But sorry, Sasha, I don't give Boag and McCarten a pass just because they're "political operators". Being partisan and not talking out of your arse aren't mutually exclusive states.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Phil Wallington,
I agree with Ian Dalziel…the whole saga should be set to music by someone like Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Lyrics by Sondheim, Broadway’s resident cynic and black comedian, of course…
Early…
or Middle Period:
or Late:
Take you pick, and remember just having no talent is not enough... -
Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Steady on, Russell. Next you’ll be saying wet liberal criminal-coddling foofy tosh like, “Even John Banks is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law” (which the Herald on Sunday isn’t).
But, yes… the bullshitty false equation of Brown and Banks has become a tiresome meme this weekend.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
What a fucking dickwad word to use, is what comes to mind.
I think you would have been slightly more restrained if PA Radio was still running, and I’d used that word in such a context in one of my pieces. But, yeah, who the hell is editing McCarten’s copy at the HoS?
BTW, if Herald group editor-in-chief Tim Murphy is lurking: Dude, you really might want to remind everyone in your stable that passive-aggressive, nudge-nudge wink-wink defamation is still defamation.
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Oh, Graeme, don’t confuse things with your stupid research-based facts. At least, don’t do it if you want a job as a Herald columnist.
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Meanwhile, Matt McCarten keeps up the popular meme of false equivalence between Len Brown and John Banks. Weirdo money quote:
Our Mayor solicited sex and concealed the relationship, and then helped his sexual benefactor get a council job without the public knowing there was a relationship with implied obligations. Brown gave his lover a work reference for a job at the Auckland Art Gallery. The Mayor’s recommendation would surely have been decisive in her successful application.
Conversely, it seems, Banks solicited donations and concealed them so he could help his financial benefactor without the public knowing there was a relationship with implied obligations.
Apart from Banks dropping Dotcom when he called in a favour, what’s the difference? Not much. Both used their positions of trust with dishonour.
Our two fallen sons are self-proclaimed practising Christians. I look forward to see how they go about seeking redemption and making amends.
Don’t know about anyone else, and YMMV, but if I was the director of the Auckland City Art Gallery I’d not only be firing off a letter to the Press Council but talking to a defamation expert. “The Mayor’s recommendation would surely have been decisive in her successful application.” There’s nothing sure about it, Matt. And I'd be damn certain both he and Councillor Cathy Casey would take an extremely dim view of a right-wing columnist insinuating he'd exploited the "implied obligations" of his relationship with his ex-partner.
Oh, and what immediately comes to mind when you hear the word “solicit”?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hell, I’ve only seen what’s been published so far, and I’d bet my pin money on that.
Sadly, it’s not going to turn out badly at all for his media enablers is it? It never has before...
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Now Slater is actually denying he was part of a plot.
Wonder how many were injured when his trousers spontaneously combusted…
And this is where things get truly bizarre...
Slater also denied he tried to sell the story to Woman's Day. He said the magazine approached him after the story broke, not before.
M'kay... should be easy enough for both parties (who I presume keep comprehensive phone and e-mail logs) to settle that one. Shouldn't it?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m struggling to see grounds for a successful complaint.
On reflection, I’m also struggling to justify wasting time time better spent at least trying to make a living.
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