Posts by Geoff Lealand
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@ Peter grower: Geez, you need to argue your case a little more coherently if you want a sympathetic reader!
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So, with or without my advocacy, Stephen Donald is back in the ABs! We shall see.... Generally, though, not a very exciting selection and rather same-old?
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Out of interest, how does that chart stuff work nowadays?
I would be interested to know too. Like other measurements of media (TV ratings; radio ratings; magazine readership etc), I suspect there is more than a pinch of truthiness or wishful thinking to their claims. Apparently music charts now include downloads, but exactly how is not clear.
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Just bought Chris Bourke's "Blue Smoke" . You would need a small truck to transport it. It is one heavy sucker of a book (but worth every magnificent page!)
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Ngaio Marsh
She was such a terrible snob.
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I am not sure whether this would be considered a freedom of speech issue but this Finnish newsreader did get the sack...;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tgRIaw2Ac
(Sorry for being such a klutz but I don't seem able to embed Youtube vids here--even my whiz-kid daughter can't figure it out.)
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Thanks for that, Samuel. One of the things that really interests me is that having previously disparaged much contemporary music
I am with you on this, Jackie. There is a (hipster?) tendency to celebrate the obscure and new over the old, which often leads to an exclusion of the past. This has always been a characteristic of popular music, with it high redundancy rate and need to seek out the new and profitable. I sometimes play a track like Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley" to my students, and ask them when it was recorded. Most opt for the 1980s or 1990s; 1955 is the correct date. Then we talk about how music today is a recycling of the past--not to damn it, but to recognise that popular culture is not about invention, but re-invention.
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Let's start with the Press Council. The Press Council is not a statutory body.
Quite so. The Press Council is a limp rag. I registered a formal complaint with them earlier this year about a series of paid-for 'advertisements' by an ACT loon in a local free weekly, which were essentially inflammatory and racist opinion pieces. I argued that to call such content 'advertising' was stretching things too far. To make matters worse, this loon then starting slagging off such complaints in his next contribution. The Press Council said this was 'unfortunate' but couldn't do anything about it.
It has always puzzled me why certain sectors of the media (TV, radio) have formal regulatory structures (the BSA) and other sectors (newspapers, magazines ) don't. I have never heard a convincing rationale for this inconsistency.
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So, did American invent roller skates? And lingerie?
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It was a tremendous game but a little strange. My beloved declared we have lost when Australia went two up, so I went and hide in the bathroom, as I did during the last RWC (oh, the horror..... ) I emerged, to be told that we had won!
It was certainly a much better experience than the Waikato vs Manawatu game earlier in the evening--Waikato were listless and only saved, once again, by Stephen Donald (scoring 22/26 points) . He really must return to the ABs.