Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Jon:
Yes, I believe Ann Coulter's made a whole career out of sruverys like that. I don't think that's the kind of company you want to be keeping in these parts - hell, after her recent mouth-fart at the C-Pac convention last week, she's even getting the bum's rush from some pretty high profile Religious Conservative Republicans from the southern states.
Who would have guessed that the Michael Moore of the far-right would finally be useful for something?
And let's not try too hard to draw any kind of causual relationship tertiary education and moral/ethical probity. I believe there are some former employees of Enron, Mattell and Martha Stewart Omnimedia who might want to dispute your evidence.
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The first episode of Rude Awakenings was pretty bad.
Yes, it was. I thought the same thing about critic's daling The Insider's Guide to Happiness and checked out - and having finally watched the rest of it on DVD, it still stinks but found it's feet pretty quickly. The problem with television drama/comedy in New Zealand is that you don't have the freedom (like in the US or UK) to start learning your craft on a load of shit that lasts six episodes then gets cancelled, move on to years of the merely mediocre than pull together a brain-melting classic. Nope, you've got to be brilliant and a smash critical/ratings success before the first ad break, or you're stuffed.
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I believe the Press Gallery refused to give her accreditation to report from Parliament on the grounds that she cannot be considered a real journalist
What next? Britney Spears doing psych assessments and drug/alcohol counselling for CYPFS? :) To be bluntly cynical, there's probably more 'real journalists' in the room when Kathryn Street has a staff meeting than there are accredited to the Press Gallery.
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Yup, <i>Infernal Affairs</i> and it's two sequels (well a sequel and a prequel) hit the festival circuit in '04 - fun, but by the end you needed a flow chart and a lot of aspirin, as 90% of the characters either died or were recast between one film's intricate clockwork of double double crosses and the next. If there is a film God, Scorsese has a full slate until he dies peacefully in his private screening room while watching a pristine restored print of some obscure Italian neo-realist gem.
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Sorry, that should read Kathryn Street. Kathryn Ryan, of course, is the current host of Nine to Noon, and former National Radio political editor not current chief press secretary to the Prime Minister, and former RNZ chief reporter. (Sorry, not doing the rebranding. If you don't know what station I'm talking about, you probably don't care in the first place.)
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Riddley Walker wrote:
yeah craig, but i don't think a PM's press sec is actually pretending to their audience that they're non-partisan?You're missing the point, Ridley - and I don't blame you. I think it's pretty fucking patronising - and more than a little sexist - to suggest Kathryn Ryan, Jane Clifton and Joanne Black are such mindless bimbos all they need is an orgasm and a bit of pillow talk, and they're putty in the hands of their evil significant others. What is this, Riddley, 1957 - when the way to man's heart is through his stomach; and the way to liquefy a woman's mind (if she ever had one) is through her knickers?
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BTW, when it come to bizarro Clint Rickards-related media, did anyone watch 60 Minutes and count the number of times he referred to himself in the third person? Unless you're the Queen or the Pope, that hits my ear as simply bizarre. If his media trainer is reading this, pass Clint a note.
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Peter Darlington wrote:
Between JB and Pamela Stirling, the Listener needs a bit of a sort out tbh.Yes, and if some people in the comments box have their way Jane Clifton and Joanne Black need a good purging because of the ideologically unsound jobs of their respective spouses/long-term partner. Which strikes me as relevant as the recent revelation (courtesy of the DomPost) that Helen Clark's chief press secretary and former RNZ chief reporter Kathryn Street is not only *gasp* a LESBIAN, but the partner of MP/unionist/'close friend and political ally' of the PM (nudge nudge, wink wink)/and mistress of the vast left-wing lesbian conspiracy Maryann Street.
I know Wellywood is a small town, and there's always some inter-breeding going down, but let's get a grip. It is 2007 isn't it - and we do let women think for themselves and hold jobs without a permission slip from their father or husband/de facto/CUP-cake/'friend with benefits'?
Not for the first time, I have to wonder if the loony left and the rabid right were separated at birth - and the surgeons had to split a brain that wasn't that active to start with.
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Clearly, the jury didn't agree with you about the credibility of this sworn evidence.
Clearl, my arse - for all you and I know, that jury reached their verdict through a 'rock, paper, scissors' round robin. they could have reached a not guilty verdict though any number of trains of argument, including that the witnesses were credible but there was still reasonable doubt in their minds. It's a tough standard to reach, and should be when there's a lengthy prison sentence at stake. Until the idea of jurors deliberating in secret is replaced with live feeds from Jury-cams who knows?
Nor, Russell's right - you've repeatedly implied that numerous people gave false statements to police, perjured themselves under oath, and are flat out liars for reasons you can't explain. You can't have it both ways, chum - put up or go back to your bridge and wait for the Three Billy-Goats Gruff to come by.
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What on earth is going on there?
We're talking about the organisation that's just laid off Maryanne Ahern - and whatever you may think of Kim Hill or Paul Holmes, they at least had the nous to work with a producer who isn't an amateur who just blew in from the nearest polytech course. The problem with getting a complex story right, rather than done (and sexed up) right now is that it's going to take time, staff and people who have enough of an institutional memory to not make the same old mistakes all over again.
That requires lots of money - at least if you're even slightly serious about producing 'in-depth news and current affairs'.And it's not as if they can rehire Paul Homes and Judy Bailey and fire 'em all over again...
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