Posts by Russell Brown
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Ready and willing ... just as soon as the right get on their knees and thank Michael Cullen for not following their advice and twinning Wellington with Reykjavik.
Quite. Anyone who tub-thumped about how we should be more like Iceland (or Ireland) should be turning in their pundit pass about now.
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Unfortunatly I notice the left are not quite as ready to cut Key any slack
I think I have ...
NZ really just has to ride this out, there is not much we can do till the big boys put their houses back in order except borrow and spend on things that might give us an edge when the world comes back to us for the things we can provide.
Well,there's some clarity. But I have been personally disappointed at the way the government is going about its business.
Brownlee's slash-and-burn in energy policy, the outrageous passing of long-term education reforms under urgency, the bizarre and improper behaviour of Nick Smith wrt ACC, McCully's commandeering of aid policy, Judith Collins' irrelevant grandstanding ... it's like they've gone into the job with the arrogance of a three-term government.
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And from a Google ad on the HuffPo page: John Galt giftware ...
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And who do they get in to fix it? A lesbian. Ace.
Indeed. And it makes perfect sense in the context of Icelandic politics, where men and women are literally in different political parties.
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Not a sentence you regularly have to call upon I imagine.
No, but fun to write. You have to read the story to get a full sense of how, er, distinctive Icelandic gender politics is.
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And then you continue that process throughout the following paragraphs. I don't need this frustration in my life.
Quite. The only real way around it is to refuse to engage at all.
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How do we get these onto Primetime? NZOA issues a call for expressions of interest in broadcasting said series. The networks then tender for the funding. A condition of funding is timeslot. I'm sure various other conditions could be applied to make sure the proposed series meets specific 'charter' objectives. I think it likely that networks will compete to secure the gig. For heaven's sake, no-one would want the competitor to secure the funding.
You'd think so, but think back to Ian Fraser's complaint when he left TVNZ: that the company's Charter obligations were incompatible with the realities of its schedule. Only, it'd be worse, because TVNZ and everyone else would be behaving as fully commercial entities.
The issue isn't the cost of production, it's what the broadcasters lose by screening non-commercial TV in a commercial timeslot. That's why production of serious documentaries has dried up -- not because there isn't finding to make them, but because the broadcasters don't want to screen them.
The only way around that is to start subsidising the broadcast itself -- at which point you maybe start thinking it would be better to have a public broadcaster.
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Agree with Hilary--and, please, can we have Paula Bennett? She is minister for, what, four ministries? I want to know what she thinks about the portfolios she runs, why she thinks it, what she sees as the future for them...
And, to be honest, I don't think she's been acquitting herself very well when she actually does have to answer serious questions.
It's all very well for Coleman to mock "academics" (I may occasionally have done that myself) but there's a point where it becomes anti-intellectual. They need to start paying attention to data.
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By no means all the trips when I was an IT journalist in the 90s constituted a junket -- but a few did. And never more than the time Nokia flew me to Singapore for the launch of a new phone (no, really) and put me up in the Ritz Carlton, along with journalists from all over the Asia-Pacific region.
It's the swankiest hotel I've ever stayed in, with the view from the bathtub and the breakfast buffets warranting particular mention. The morning I checked out, Rod Deane was being ushered to a car-with-driver.
Sadly, there are way swankier hotels I've never set foot in.
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Maybe it says something about my interests/issues, but I'd quickly grow bored of a diet of politics, media and tech only.
Paul Litterick wrote a nice post this year about people who blog only about politics. It'd drive me nuts, frankly. I do consciously try and mix it up, especially on Fridays. How abut those LED sheep, eh?
And in other news, 'River Deep, Mountain High' is outpacing 'This Is Your Lucky Night', 88 downloads to 79.
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