Posts by Craig Ranapia
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'Tis method in his madness! Did anyone know he had a new album out before the world wide publicity about the giveaway?
Not many - and I'm mildly surprised that his more recent - and frankly less self-indulgent - albums aren't selling better. But it sure looks like the Purple One still knows how to maximise the take-home and fill a stadium. I have a funny feeling there are a few Mail reader who can still remember all the lyrics to Purple Rain, and do the sad white git funky chicken every time Kiss comes on the radio.
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Much weirder: Prince gives away his new album: attached to the front of the Mail on Sunday.
Weird, as in the giveaway itself - or that it's hard to imagine much of an overlap between his fanbase and the stereotypical Mail reader?
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And for the record, I couldn't really get too upset many moons ago upon discovering the husband of the Honourable Member for Rongotai held a senior management role in the Wellington City Council. Whatever I thought of Annette King (not much), I assume that she had the wit to establish and maintain a proper firewall between her professional and personal interactions with her husband.
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Grant:
Well, if I've got my facts wrong perhaps ypu can correct me. Am I wrong about Kathryn being in a relationship with Maryan Street - in which case the DomPost profile following her promotion to the PM's cheif press secretary I read that rather gratuitous tidbit in was inaccurate -, or that she wasn't while working for Radio NZ. Either way, I'm sure her work as a journalist and a parliamentary press secretary is conducted to the highest professional standards, and not influenced by who she happens to be in a relationship with. I'm sure there are some folks on the right who would quite happily smear Kathryn by innuendo because she's on the 'wrong side'. I'm not, but as I said Grant if you do want to play it like that, it cuts both ways and can get pretty ugly.
And, Stephen, yes I think it's a very good thing that there are disclosure standards for journalists but I think it's not only absurd, but somewhat sinister, if we're going to expect every journalist and civil servant to list what their spouse/partner/CUPcake/'friend with benefits'/casual fuck buddy does for a living.
For example, my partner works for Toll New Zealand and has been in the railways for forty-five years. Oddly enough, our pillow talk isn't about crew rosters, timetables and long-term resource allocation modeling. Nor does he have any influence over my contributions to Public Address Radio, or access to confidential work or party-related documents I've been privy to from time to time.
I don't see what's so complicated about that. Really.
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sorry Craig, but the fact that the Listener has never bothered to tell its readers that Joanne Black's husband is Key's chief advisor rankles with me.
And Kathryn Street (who is now the PM's chief press secretary) didn't end every industrial relations or political story she filed as RNZ's chief reporter with, "by the way I'm fucking Maryan Street - no relation - read into that what you will." I understand it wasn't exactly being kept on the downlow in Wellywood media/political circles, and despite the vast left-wing lesbian cabal supposedly running Helengrad, Street left RNZ with a lot of respect on all sides of the political spectrum.
You want to play that game, Grant, let's be entirely consistent about it. Because I'm really more than a little tired of the snide chipping at the professional integrity of people like Joanne Black and Jane Clifton because they're (literally) sleeping with the enemy. Remember folks - I'm supposed to be the sexist Tory patriarch who think women are just silly little bimbots utterly incapable of breaking wind without their husband's say-so.
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Oh, for fuck's sake, David - are you angling for a human resources position at the Environment Ministry? With all these male Mata Haris John Key is hiring nowadays, I have to wonder if he wants to be Prime Minister or run a male brothel.
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All these spirals are making me sick...
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I am always very impressed when the likes of David Farrar and Idiot Savant demonstrate just how easy it is to participate and get your ideas a hearing, particularly if they are well thought out and presented.
Indeed, Don - and if you're not going to use the participatory mechanisms that are there already (however imperfect they are), I don't have an excess of sympathy when you bitch and moan about the results. You know, like all the folks who couldn't be bothered voting at the last round of local body elections but haven't stopped bleating about the bloody useless Council since...
Don't get me wrong - bitching and whining is a precious right in a democracy. But so is voting, and being an informed and active citizen.
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Heh... YOUR SANITY HAS A FLAVOR NOM NOM NOM - get that put on a t-shirt and I'll never have to stand on the bus again.
Still, thanks Leo - Cuthulu really needs to do talkback. Please.
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The risk is that New Zealand will end up paying for "Monkey Smeg" and stuff that works until we figure out the difference.
Certainly, 81stcolumn, and I didn't mean to come across as being glib about the real hucksters and snake oil salesmen who are out there preying on desperate people. My point, such as it was, was that you can't force people to take any notice of warning labels (as any GP who's torn her hair out when folks just don't follow dosage instructions and wonder why they still feel like crap) - but that's no argument for not having the information there in the first place.
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