Posts by James Littlewood*
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TV news always feels so enslaved to the image, though. The presenter or journo says "police officer" or "rain" or "DHB" and we see footage of cops, rain and hospitals: usually generic, often irrelevant, more often distracting than enlightening.
Campbell on Checkpoint, on radio, has an opportunity to only cut to pictures if there are any worth showing. And - as every other RNZ presenter always does - let the audience know when there are good pictures there to be looked at.
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Hard News: Radio being made, in reply to Sacha,
ditching tv bulletins
Ancient history. My daughter came home from intermediate school the other day with a quizzical look on her face. "Dad, can I watch" - thoughtful pause - "TV?" Clearly, there'd been some playground water fountain chat. Poor thing. She's grown up without any knowledge of appointment ad viewing.
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Mike King's "Nutter's Club" is a good reference for a radio-on-TV presentation style. I felt Checkpoint's set felt like a bit of a scrub up, without going full blown TV studio set. Would rather one or the other.
Totally agree: I love seeing the moving parts. More of that please.
And yes - without for a moment belittling the heroic battles faced by Nadine Lomu - the extensive human interest story felt like an unnecessary departure from the hard news promise of the Checkpoint brand.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to George Darroch,
sincere
Sure I am, if possibly also dabbling knowingly in the hypothetical. Still, it's clearly a more strategically progressive question than anyone in the flag panel managed to come up with.
What would actually change if we indulged my daughter's whim to let anyone fly any flag they want?
Fuck. All.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to George Darroch,
George, that sounds SO grown up!
Would we really stop being a nation if we didn't have a flag? Just try that one with a straight face to a 6 yo.
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My daughter who is nowhere remotely even close to voting age, said "Stupid flag! Why do we even NEED a flag?"
Answering that with a straight face to a child is almost impossible.
Of course, the real reason is to lay claim to things: countries, athletes, soldiers. If you like it, you'd better put a flag on it.
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I can't fuckin stand this shit. It's bollocks, from arsehole to breakfast.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Hebe,
Christchurch has equally good area-specific words
Do tell.
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I know we're not voting yet. But I'm with Jolissa: Quaxing. It's new. It's positive, and yet - how to put it - moral. It knows the difference between right and wrong. And in the best of Kiwi traditions, it's both pleasantly pejorative and satisfyingly sporty.
It reminds us of our national sport in a parallel universe: farnarkling.
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