Posts by giovanni tiso
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Hebe,
Yep. And we have a tiny domestic market to pay for it.
We also have very few news outlets, though. The Herald has a wider circulation than the Guardian.
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It's worth reminding them that there are other costs to persisting with him.
I think so, but then I also wonder - it's not like people can go to the competition, can they? It'll be genuinely interesting to see what happens after the paywall.
As for praising the good stuff... We do that already, don't we? Social media is really good for that.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t think regarding the Herald as monolithically terrible is fair or accurate. On balance, it’s the best paper in the country
Which is really not saying much, as anyone who has been out of the country can testify. Besides, I think 'monolithically terrible' is a misrepresentation. No-one is saying that the Herald is as bad as The Daily Mail. But since, unlike in Britain, we have no alternatives, the fact that the Herald is so stupefyingly thin and shallow is an issue. I grew up in a two-newspaper household. I've always loved reading the paper. Always watched the news on TV. The fact that I materially cannot do this in New Zealand is a problem for me.(*)
As for whether constructive criticism is the answer, boy, I’m not so sure. You expressed satisfaction that the Herald online changed a bad headline on Lorde after feedback from Twitter, and that is well and good, but this is the same paper that is proud to publish confirmed rape apologist Bob Jones, and had no qualms running Paul Holmes' Waitangi Day column two years ago, to say nothing of the reactionary tosh that fills 80% of its columns. How’s constructive criticism working for you there? And really, to echo Danielle’s earlier point, the occasional ‘fuck this shit’-type response is perfectly justified, when essentially all you have is the power to express a frank opinion, and vent some frustration. Because if anyone here really thinks that we’ll improve journalism in New Zealand by praising the good reporters so they don’t develop a siege mentality, the outlook isn’t good. I’d rather be the person who expects more of people who are perfectly capable of doing better.
(*) Although: Radio New Zealand. What a treasure that place is.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Hebe,
don't count them as journalists.
They are in our newspapers, aren't they? They are seamless part of the product. And what about Paul Henry? Isn't he in fact a journalist?
It was interesting to run the Jonesy Awards on Twitter last year, in part for the reactions that it elicited from some journalists. Some of them I think were genuinely offended by the concept. (Not Damian, it must be said.) Yet what was obviously and spectacularly offensive was the material, which was really just a small sample of what is fed to us on a daily basis.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
your point leaves me a bit uncomfortable. Clearly we are allowed to, and should, criticise the media and the behaviour of some individuals within it
Little thought experiment: try to imagine (it's more a question of remembering, but whatever) what it would be like if people who don't work in media couldn't publicly comment on it. No blogosphere, no social media, no internet. Only letters to the editor, and the likes of Garth George choosing whether or not to publish them. Meanwhile, Michael Lhaws, Bob Jones, John Tamihere roam the land. How would that make you feel?
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Damian Christie,
Keeping in theme with this post, I'd like to point out there are some really excellent reporters at the NZ Herald who work incredibly hard and do fantastic work in their field. David Fisher is the first who springs to mind.
Of course. There is no contradiction between the two statements - you can have very good journalists and still have bad journalism.
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Cracker: How Media Made me a Bad Person., in reply to Danielle,
I just think it's generally pretty bad.
Sing it, sister.
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Hard News: Making it up on smacking, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Mostly, I'm talking about the consequences for the child, of a criminal conviction of a parent who has smacked.
That's how the failure to prosecute spousal abuse used to be rationalised. Consequences for the battered wife (and the kids) might be be even worse if the husband were convicted.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Danielle,
Stranger things have happened.
No, they haven't.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Chuck Bird,
Hey, Giovanni what do you think of Cunliffe calling Judith Collins a trout?
What, you think my name is Petronius all of a sudden? Why are you asking me?
But since you are, and without being fully aware of the connotations of the term in NZE, I'd have to say it was a demeaning and stupid word to use. I could revise downwards once somebody explains to me what it was even supposed to mean.