Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Pete,
Hey, Pete. Most of the people I've known in the Young Nats had considerably more charm than that comment. To be fair, that bar isn't above ground level.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
ambitious Young Nat
It's been a long time since I had cause to make the National Party constitution bedside reading, but surely there's still a mechanism in place to expel members who bring the Party into disrepute. Brittany Raleigh would have my full and public support if she initiated moves to take Wewege out with the trash.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Hebe,
And although Bevan Chuang is an unlovely character
Yeah, and that's something else I'm too fucking angry to be coherent about. The media slut-shaming is offensive enough on its own account, but the dudebros aren't even trying to disguise the metric fuckton of ageism and racism in play. Is it the 21st century yet?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Deborah,
I don’t want to just look in the other direction and pretend that someone didn’t leave this large stinking mess in the middle of this community.
And rightly so, Deborah. I carelessly posted a comment that wasn't supporting PAS as a safe space, and a zero tolerance one for racism and misogyny, and would like to apologise to the whole PAS community. (Russell, I'd be happy if you think deleting it is the right call.)
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’ve heard something genuinely gobsmacking about this
Can my gob have a little longer to recover from “Jock Anderson fired for being opinionated in an editorial.” What next: Conde Nast sacking Anna Wintour and Graydon Carter for running too many covers with skinny celebrities in very expensive advertiser's clothes?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Anderson was dismissed yesterday for failing to comply with specific instructions to treat coverage of the Len Brown affair in an impartial and unbiased manner.
Isn’t an “impartial and unbiased” editorial like a quiet orgasm, especially from the pen of Jock Anderson who isn’t exactly unknown for leaving people to die waiting to know what he really thinks. ‘Bizarre’ is very polite way to put it, Russell.
Oh well, I'm sure the nigh on inevitable Employment Court action will be covered in an impartial and unbiased manner by Todd Scott's august organ. :)
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Don't feed the troll and let Russell take out the trash when he gets back from the supermarket? Still, to be a bit of a Pollyanna, it's one hell of a reminder that Public Address more typically adds value to any subject isn't it?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Let me answer that: none of them do.
Exactly -- it wouldn't only be legally and practically impossible, but given the highly mobile and limited labour pool in the media industry (including public sector spin doctors/press secretaries) what the grown-ups do is have mechanisms in place to manage actual or potential conflicts of interest, *cough* interpersonal drama and workplace sexual harassment/abuse. I hope every employer and industry does.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Rik,
Sure there has been manipulation and coercion – doesn’t change the fact of what went on for two years.
What was that Rik, a consensual sexual relationship between two adults you might well find distasteful but which nobody has produced the slightest evidence of legal or even ethical wrong-doing?
This might also be a good time to remind some of our self-appointed political/media moral arbiters that two people fucking and working in the same organization is not de facto evidence of impropriety. Otherwise, I’d like to know how many media organizations have “non-fraternization” policies, and how well they’d stand up in a court of law.
Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle.
Or perhaps we could not expose ourselves to the same cat-call and not go there? I could, but won't, start rattling off the names of media folks whose marriages/relationships have imploded rather spectacularly (some with co-workers involved, others not) without going beyond the confines of a rather gossipy industry. That's not an arseholy thing to do but missing the point. Even if everyone involved in this squalid saga were fresh out of the convent, it's still awful and destructive.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Shaun Lott,
The Herald’s problem is that it seems to want to simultaneously be the News of the World and the Daily Telegraph…
And to add insult to injury, it just makes the Daily Mail (whose bizarre hit job on Ed Miliband's dead father raised a cross-party cry of "Eww, WTF?") look like a class act.
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