Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Span wrote:
Whaleoil (and others) seem to be unaware of the fact that the drinks were initially organised by a National blogger (David Farrar) along with Labour blogger Jordan Carter. But for some the hatred of anything Labour is too strong.Well, to be fair Span, there's some left-wing nuts out there (and I won't tickle their egos by naming names) I'm quite happy not to have to expend any polite social hypocrisy on either. In the end, you really can't let the cock-knockers of any persuasion spoil your day.
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If only it was that simple. It's more the piles of books and newspapers on every surface (you can't actually dine off the dining room table), the dust, and the cat that seems able to shed hair half way up the wall. It's all charmingly bohemian, until you realise someone else is going to be in your house for two weeks sneezing and tripping over things.
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In another post, Mr Oil trumpets his refusal to attend blogger drinks with "the enemy", providing further proof, if any were needed, that he is not someone any sane person would wish to sit next to in a pub.
Um, yes... Sadly, I can't attend (for the non-partisan reason that the better half and I are off to Australia next week, and I've got to make the house fit for human habitation before the housesitter arrives), but it's actually rather nice to get a few political bloggers in the room and talk about everything except politics. Perhaps I'm guilty of false consciousness and ideological impurity, but I remember back in the day in Wellington when most Young Nats and Labour Yoof could occasionally lay down the cudgels and socialise reasonably well. Crap, I feel old.
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Damien:
Perhaps... but I don't think anyone this side of the ditch is really on the firm moral high horse when it comes to psychotically partisan sports punditry. Is it really so hard to acknowledge that Kiwi sportsmen lose because... well, the other team was better, and (yes Virginia) umpires often make marginal calls but they're the people who make them, and just because you don't agree doesn't mean they're part of some eeevil conspiracy? And I apologise if I sound like a pompous fogey, but I do appreciate good grace whether you've won or lost.
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And to be fair, someone at TV3 really deserves a good slap in the head for making sure they've probably killed any audience for Battlestar Galactica - which, if you pardon the cliche, is the SF show for people who don't like SF if there ever was one...
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This after former programmer Annemarie Duff didn't even bid for the revived Doctor Who, because, she once told me, it was "not our audience"
Though given the way TVNZ thoroughly fucked up with genre-tinged BBC shows like Life On Mars (wasn't that pulled so we could have even more Corrie?), and the sublimely twisted League of Gentlemen (first two series dumped at 11pm with no promotion) how exactly is that a bad thing?
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dc_red:
Oh, what hypocrisy from The Herald - I wonder how many staff have been put on 'gardening leave' to run out their contracts without messy (and expensive) Employment Court actions, or how many executives and senior management have left the building with generous and 'commercially sensitive' 'golden parachutes' strapped to their backs?
As far as I know, Brash is being treated no differently from any other MP - including defeated MPs who draw pay for several months after the election. Now you can argue that's a bad thing, but please could the O'Herald spare me the faux outrage about the man taking a holiday over Christmas?
Jackie:
Well, indeed. I freak out in large crowds, and my hearing isn't the best, do the BDO experience isn't really my bag to begin with. But I guess of you have deep pockets - and an adventurous disposition - you're bound to come across enough tolerably good acts you don't feel utterly gypped.
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What would we know?
Humm...seems a bit like men and the Film Festival. I don't really know if it was a 'weak' line-up this year or just that my personal tate doesn't line up with what's going on (and available) in world cinema. Don't know whether to start counting my grey hairs, or come over all curmudgeonly about how they don't make 'em like they used to anymore. :)
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Haydin:
I don't grudge hacks their holidays any more than politicians - and radio stations don't exactly have the moral high ground when it comes to silly season fluff. (And if I was a bean-counter at APN, the more paid leave entitlements off the balance sheet the better.) I just thought a reasonably competent hack like Mike Houlahan wouldn't let his by-line on such a flimsy story.
Personally, I'm more outraged that Philip Field may well be spending the rest of the Parliamentary term on paid 'gardening leave' for doing exactly nothing, and (as far as I can see) there's precisely nothing to be done about it. The chance for Clark to call his bluff - which would have taken a degree of political courage I'd have respected enormously - is gone.
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No one wants the Herald to return to the days when it was a stranger to campaigning journalism.
Well, with local body elections upon us this year, that's exactly what I'd like the Herald to do. To plagiarise myself :), last time I'd describe their election coverage as piss-poor, but that would be a gross libel of urine. Now I know you were no fan of John Banks, but was I the only one who rolled my eyes at the only daily newspaper in Auckland editorialising with a straight face that it was a concern Dick Hubbard's actual policies hadn't been subject to rigorous scrutiny? (Though to be fair, the other metropolitan dailies didn't exactly cover themselves with glory either.)
i've done my time on the local body beat, and am perfectly aware that it just ain't "sexy", but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter or deserve the respect of serious, long-term bread and butter reporting and more thoughtful analysis than whatever hobby horse Brian Rudman is shagging this week.
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