Posts by Andre
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I worry about the fact that we're still pumping millions o tonnes of raw sewage into the harbour let alone adding more dwellings. In 1996 Auckland City had a decades long plan to get rid of the problem of stormwater overflowing into the sewerage system when it rained. John Banks etc exended this deadline by decades and our current council have extended it by decades more. We can't handle current flows. http://joelcayford.blogspot.co.nz/2012/10/is-central-interceptor-necessary.html
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This was just a classic:
"Older people will all recall from their own lives how black and white and now-focused young people tend to be".
How "now-focused" is Grey Power's whole platform? Just continue paying hundreds of thousands of multi-millionaires $16500 a year like there's no tomorrow - means-testing would be "unfair" apparently. I wonder if Mr rayner was talking on behalf of the increasing number of recently-immigrated elderly Asian millionaires receiving super? How "now-focused" is that? It's scary when you see it in "black and white" without the accompanying palaver about how we owe them so much we should be willing to live in penury quite happily in comparison etc. -
It was great seeing Generation Zero in our local paper recently, http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/8566375/Speaking-for-Gen-Z. The vitriol spewed forth from rich elderley residents in the following weeks' letters to the editor, capped off by a piece of unadulterated rubbish from Grey Power. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/8623172/Elderly-ask-for-fair-go
Any change is a threat when you are at the top of the established pecking order and the unitary plan has been a NIMBY magnet. -
Regarding the merger of media watchdogs, why have the Advertising Standards Complaints Board not been included? They are an equally self-policing concern and in my experience complaints are hard to get actioned if the defending party is a powerful entity. Ad content should be controlled by a more powerful, independent non-aligned organisation as well.
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Jerry is my partner's cousin. He's a great guy. Friendly. Honest. Loves a beer. And actively dislikes people who do drugs. Family is also obviously important to him. I thought John Campbell did a great job - breaking through what until then seemed a media beat-up from afar. Jerry will hopefully be home soon to give his side of the story. The craziest part of the whole fiasco so far must be the guards demanding that John Campbell and Jerry only converse in Japanese, even though the former hardly knows the language. A bit like a scene from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. The Japanese justice system sounds purpose-built to rob citizens of their rights btw.
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He was amazing when he first began Holmes. A breath of fresh air with a fantastic intelligence that never wavered. Any slip-ups came from his personality rather than his ability.
He was the first broadcaster to feature his Mum regularly that I'd seen. Paul Henry's devotion to screening his Mum may have been an unfortunate result however.
I lived in Wellington when I was at the Qantas Media Awards and he was a couple of metres away and never crossed the space to introduce myself, fearing I would offend one of his coterie or the man himself. I thought he was incredibly brilliant and the rest of his career could only be a disappointment. I wish I'd said hi when I had the inclination. The adulation is deserved. Just a shame about his ignorance of political realities and that bloody CD. -
I wonder what influence Quentin Reade will have in his new role at Kordia. We have 3 tv's, none of which currently run on freeview much since our decoder has crap signal quality. But I don't think we're actually missing much. The kids go to the park to play instead. We get given heaps of kids movies by friends and UHF is actually adequate. We never had tv at home until I was about 7 years old and that wasn't such a bad thing. Sky have a government granted monopoly I'd rather avoid and free view will be a lot like UHF is today in a couple of years I reckon.
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The most interesting question posted last week was who is best qualified to lead a new alliance between the Greens, Mana and Labour? That would be the outcome if an election was held today I reckon, since the pollsters are still phoning landlines and based on the pre-election polls that were badly skewed towards the right-wing parties. Hopefully NZ First doesn't need to be included in any new government. At present, Russel Norman is a valid possibility. Shearer's main job may be doing enough to actually lead the country after the next election. Very glad to hear some left-wing views from Labour for a change. They still seem like they want to do the least amount possible to retain support from their elderly home-owning members rather than changing the system completely to reduce inter-generational theft and inequality though.
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I remember when I shifted to Wellington in the late 90's that the weekly Hard News email hitting my inbox was at the time my only link to Auckland's CBD underground literate and political culture. In the same way that Planet magazine was when I spent a few years in Christchurch around 1990. Now I'm living in the burb's with a young family you are still supplying my link to a community of thought that I've always related to. Many thanks - your media has been the compulsory reading of much of my life.
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<q>Third, it steadily disengages advertising revenue from the creation of content, and editorial content in particular.<q>
Funnily enough, newspaper and magazine editors the world over spent decades disassociating themselves from the advertising sales functions of their companies. Advertising reps were beneath them in the food chain and the views of companies who were advertising with them were officially never taken into account by editorial staff. The change in the treatment of advertisers is huge. Now the publishers will set up an event and run it on behalf of their major advertisers. You've never seen so many glowing editorial mentions of stakeholding businesses in print. The depression and the growth of online competition has made publishers more willing to compete and has further blurred the divide between writing and sales teams IMO. So officially advertising revenue was completely disengaged from editorial creation in old-school publishers and the change to offering advertisers multiple platforms to get their messages across was fairly recent. I predict that editors will be directed to favour certain advertisers as part of their job description as the competition gets hotter.