Posts by giovanni tiso
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Oh, and the 'Dr' line was meant to be a wry joke -- note the smiley face (first time I've ever used one). In real life, I don't use my official title (even in front of a lecture theatre).
Okay, about that: can you tell me how it happened that you got Christine Ryan to read a snippet of something I wrote on PAS on her show as being the work of a "Dr. Giovanni Tiso"? It made me sound like a royal wanker. (To say nothing of the fact that my doctorate isn't exactly in statistics or any other discipline useful to that particular conversation.)
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Yasar Arafat for example.
Henry Fucking Kissinger.
Which does (admittedly in the face of some circumstantial evidence) suggest his claim about not knowing enough to talk was correct.
Or that he waited until after taking criticism, as per the Paul Henry thing. Both options are quite depressing.
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They claim that they couldn't find the book as a convenient excuse for not buying it, because the truth is they are cheap and tight and resent paying out real money.
At this point we are getting into some of your own issues, right?
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I'm still kind of in awe about that. My cool brother! Outrocks the PM!
But has Ben congratulated Liu Xiaobo yet? I don't see evidence of it on his blog. How long must we be kept waiting?
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I hope this doesn't count as a derail, but I'm genuinely interested in the narrative that what Henry said was partly not ok because he was on TVNZ, the state-owned broadcaster.
So would it have been ok if Oliver Driver had said it on Sunrise? (in a hypothetical world where Oliver Driver was a dick of the magnitude of Paul Henry and Sunrise still existed, of course)
These two things are mutually exclusive, though, right? I mean yes, what Henry said was partly not ok because he was on TVNZ, and yes, it would still have been appalling if somebody had said it on the non-public airwaves. That's why we have broadcasting standards. But it makes perfect sense to hold the public broadcasters to a further and higher standard, I think, for they have a special responsibility to represent us.
I'd like broadcasting standards to have more of a bite because I'm not especially partial to sponsor boycotts - essentially in that they give people with more purchasing power more of a say. And unlike a BSA complaint they are not judged on merit, but purely on effectiveness of the campaign, so as Graeme says an organised group of bigots can be more effective than a group with legitimate concerns.
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Aside form how utterly depressing the metaphor "marketplace of ideas" is (which is a discussion for another day I suppose), you need to stretch the definition of "idea" quite a bit to include both what Henry said and your gynaecological rejoinder.
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but denies any pressure from the Chinese government.
Which actually makes it worse. Appalling statement, or lack thereof. What a small, small man.
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You only have to look at the NZ book section at Unity to know how important it is to them and one assumes - Stephen's point about overstocking notwithstanding - to their bottom line. It's not all fiction, granted, but still.
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that $21,740 gets pretty small when it's divided between all the bookshops in the country
Given that it's for a single book, I'd be inclined to think that it would amount to actual money.
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you believe in the tooth fairy. or santa.
Now, about that...