Posts by "chris"
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*Though no more hopeless than the rest of those babbitts standing beside him on this, Contact info here:
http://thejackalman.blogspot.com/2013/08/contact-mps-voting-for-gcsb-and-tics.html
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Peter Graham,
Profound. I love how “a hundredth of a second” became “a nanosecond” in the twinkling of an eye. That would have been a perfect Sci-fi storm if Key hadn't neglected to mention the mighty “flux capacitor” powering this wondrous machine. What a hopeless cunt.
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This live feed is excellent viewing. Cheers for the link Russell.
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It becomes the teapot...
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Hard News: The GCSB Bill: eleventh-hour arguments, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The local perverati
Yes, we're here, no one appears to be home so we're taking pics of her furnishings - Global knives, Nice!
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I was dumbfounded reading that Kerre McIvor piece:
I couldn't give a fat rat's bum if they monitored my house and my life
A quote for the ages.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to andin,
I’d love to know what input was coming from the producer down the wire.
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Key made some good points, and you can’t expect Campbell to just bang on regardless.
I think John Campbell’s “bang” was his undoing, Key was water. As Steviant said:
"I think people can more easily be coached to handle an aggressive interviewer than they can to simply talk at length on a subject without prompting, because you can distract the viewers by behaving in a way that makes the interviewer seem rude or pushy."
Key was certainly gifted ample opportunity to make his points. Arguably a degree of flexibility was in order, perhaps even a commercial break.
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Legal Beagle: Gordon Campbell…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I particularly liked this Graeme:
Some of my favourite debates/discussions have been ones where I have ‘lost’. I don’t want my view to win, I want the better view to be my view, and that may mean recognising that the view I was arguing for was wrong. If someone changes my mind about something, I’m always a little more comforted that I (now) hold the right view. Having a view that someone hasn’t changed may just mean that I haven’t heard the right rebuttal yet.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to WH,
I thought Key’s comments about snapper, the Law Society and Kim Dotcom were really inappropriate.
Definitely, but a proportion of politicians will still endeavor get away with whatever they can, always, and if the media is really The Fourth estate it claims to be; i.e. a societal or political force, then one expects them to be consistently capable of dictating terms, at the very least on home turf – in print/on air.