Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Jackie Clark,
In my experience, you throw up before, you throw up afterwards but you’re OK during the event yourself (no matter how convinced you are you were a babbling brook of imbecility).
Not sure that helped, but the truth seldom does. :)
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That’s great news but can I make a suggestion? Please can you have some more girls on your panel?
To be fair, I don't think it's for lack of effort. While things are a lot better than they used to be, there's still serious gender/diversity gaps at senior editorial and management in media. And in panel shows like Media 3, you can have a perfectly balanced panel for a topic and have it all fall apart on the morning of production day for all kinds of reasons from twitchy management to airport closures.
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Aaargh! Prior engagement I can't avoid or shift without much clouting in the ears. One will expect live Tweeting, photographs and at least one vile, palpably untrue rumour involving a Ridge of some description.
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I was part of a panel at the uni last night (with David Beatson, Claire Curran, Mark Servian and Bomber Bradbury), facing an overflowing lecture theatre full of citizens enraged at the decision to let the channel die,
Sorry for flogging a dead horse, but did anyone suggest to Curran that if her party is serious about public television they might want to rethink putting a kill switch on the funding next time? Blah blah of course I'd say that etc. but really...
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Yay - but if they commission a new serious of Hori Shore... I mean, The GC there will be no quarter given to our new media overlords. The squandered opportunity upsets me more than the show itself...
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to Ross Bell,
(Dunne rejected the commission’s advice on medical cannabis at the same time).
Which, to be fair, he’s perfectly entitled to do. I just wish that, like Jim Anderton on suicide prevention policy (a subject he was understandably highly emotional about), Dunne wasn’t so prone to being dismissive, condescending or downright toxic towards other points of view. It’s not a particularly useful starting point to presume those you disagree with are acting in bad faith or with ulterior motives.
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Sorry to start with trivia, but I'm awfully impressed the Police are sending poor recession-stricken media folks pictures of drugs they can no longer afford for reals. That's just mean.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Lilith __,
When exactly did this shift occur -and can we attribute it to the internet which seems to wear the blame for most contemporary societal ills?
Oh, Shelley you brainless trout… Someone really needs to get the kids to crack open a book and figure out they didn’t invent fucking. Unexpurgated editions of the Kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah, Jin Ping Mei, The Satyricon and Boccario’s Decameron would be a start. All dripping with sexual secretions and written a very long time before teh interwebz.
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I think cheap-siding the subs is a case of being penny wise and pounds foolish. I won’t go into the tedious details, but back in the day an eagle-eyed sub (with plenty of institutional memory and local knowledge) saved me from a “trivial typing error” (i.e. sloppy attribution hard on deadline) that could have ended up in a defamation suit. A simple inquiry, and a few minutes re-writing, saved a lot of trouble.
And while I was in London, Hillary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies was (quite correctly) getting rave reviews. Shame the print edition of one broadsheet incorrectly called the novel’s protagonist Oliver Cromwell instead of Thomas nine times in a 800 word note. Petty and not really that important in the great scheme of things? Perhaps, but why should I take the book pages of a major daily newspaper seriously if they can’t get something that basic right.
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TEsty
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