Posts by john Drinnan
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to andin,
Is that a poem- or is it sung to the tune of something?
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to izogi,
Hi Izogi - been a journalist 30 years can't remember days when experts were hired and trained to be journalists - though maybe there were more cases of people with a literary background being editors. Big issue with hiring experts is that they would cost and cost is even more of an issue now than it ever was.
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With respect Keith - you might be getting a bit carried away with yourself.
You got a great scoop - and more power to your sword.
Handling of story would raise eyebrows with MSM - sighting of confidential files -might not happen in MSM for legal reasons,
"Don't trust other journos to write a story your way" is probably good advice. Good thing about this blog is it removes blogger suggestion Paul Craig was fed to TVNZ by authorities. HDPA and Patrick Gower are both very solid journalists - and I wouldn't imagine they would use the term shit to describe your work Besides which - congrats - good the story is out. -
Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to Damian Christie,
You're absolutely right Damian - CL has done some good things lately but there's a tendency to get carried away. Sometimes its difficult to work out which JC correspondents here are talking about, In general though TV3's approach to current affairs seems to be more coherent than TVNZ's right now.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to graeme muir,
Good points Graeme - Campbell Live has been doing some good things, Saluted ths show in nzherald this week but has still been susceptible to crap like everybody else - choco-ade coverage a case in point. There's no doubt that Close Up has been dysfunctional for some time - but it has seemed more rooted in a wider (dare I say it) " mainstream" audience that does not assume one of looking at things n a certain way - more New Lynn than Grey Lynn.
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to WH,
You've summed it up really
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Jesus you'll be quoting Jefferson next
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We have a different view of honour among journalists.
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Thanks for the link. I'll throw myself on the fire with a third response in two days, (i'm sick - too much time on my hands)
If you have a media column in the Herald you have got to expect stick - that is what comes from working on a big paper
People write in both good and bad each week.
The abusive ones tend to be anonymous, so I suppose I should applaud Craig for giving his name.
But he seems to have given a hatred for the paper - which is rite of passage at PA and The Standard - a personal edge when it comes to me.
His major beef seems to be a perceived bias he sees against his friend Russell - he has mentioned it in Hard News several times before. The idea clearly strikes his fancy.
But please. what is this all about?
In five years I have probably mentioned Russell ad Public Address maybe half a dozen times and I have only once questioned his journalism- over the Powershop advertorial (along with David Farrar and Al Thompson
Outrageous (how could you ... outrageous I hear you ask)
Russell is a high profile blogger and media commentator.
I've disagree with viewpoints and approach but it has never been personal.
But there seems to be a view that mentioning Public Address in other is insulting and objectionable unless it saying how great it is .
In contrast I have been accused regularly in Public Address of incompetent journalism. Even researchers who quoted the Herald media column were criticised recently for their poor judgment. This blog alone accuses me of stealing credit for stories, (wrongly as I pointed out) from other journalists and doing a job on public funding as part of a pact with my employers at APN.
Its all a bit mad.
I'm big enough and ugly enough to take criticism - it goes with the job.
But Craig - getting personal does Public Address no credit. You should play the ball and not the man. -
Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
A senior player in a government political party is assigned to a gatekeeper role for a series of public issues documentaries examining public spending priorities. You are drawing a long bow finding a conspiracy by APN ( and presumably myself) over ad dollars, when it is just the media doing its job. Fact is s0me people in the broadcasting industry are very quiet questioning NZ On Air and its processes - for the understandable reason that they don't want to annoy their main source of revenue. That's a good reason for someone to keep an eye on political appointees to broadcasting agencies.