Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Wow, Nora, amazing photos! Were you actually in an erupting volcano?
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Thanks, Farmer Green. I particularly agree with your:
Red herring! It was contamination.
Clean , green and fresh. Yeah right!
Contaminated , arguably unsustainable, storable commodity!Fonterra's response did not win it many friends over here.
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Not quite as honest as my last photo. I doubt you'd find any old antiques in this market these days. Lots of brand new ones, though. Having said that, I do love sifting through the books section, many of those are actually used, at least, if not quite antique. Great for chinoiserie, though.
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Thanks for posting this Russell. You've very indirectly touched on an aspect of Western media coverage of China, especially in imagery, that tends to bug me at this time of year, and how that imagery is used to reinforce certain predetermined narratives.
I especially like the Wired cover. Very arresting.
Too early in the morning for me to say anything more coherent, just thought I'd express my appreciation for this post.
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Hard News: First, admit it's broken, in reply to "chris",
Hmm..., yes, another distinct possibility. The mountains may be high, but the emperor is awfully bloody close. And it's NPC/CPPCC season, so the screws are tightened a little tighter than normal.
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Xinhua also has pictures of Christchurch's Lantern Festival. Chinese text only, but the pics speak beautifully enough for themselves.
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Of course. One thing I am not doing as I wait for NZ to develop high quality media is hold my breath. There's good stuff out there, like, ahem, Media3 (really hope my connection starts working properly so I can watch it again), but nowhere near enough.
But it is as Craig says:
we still have public ownership of a non-trivial chunk of the media landscape. Take it bloody seriously, one way or the other.
I wonder what would happen if the commercial media had to compete with a high-quality public broadcaster using the internet to publish all kinds of high-quality multimedia information.
I also wonder what would happen if we found ourselves with a government that had the balls to pass a law forcing an end to the highly concentrated ownership of media in NZ. That's another one on my wishlist, and another I'm not holding my breath waiting for.
Anyway, Murdoch's recent troubles in the UK only served to strengthen my impression that he certainly should not be able to pass any good character test I thought our overseas investment regime was supposed to impose.
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Could this be good news? Certainly seems like it, though of course it won't magically revive public service broadcasting.
"News Limited" - the news, limited to what Rupert allows you to know.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Has summer stopped everywhere else?
Beautiful sunny, warm spring day up here.
Lovely corn. My father in law would be jealous, especially since his cornfield has been converted to poplars (compensated, though).
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Honesty?
