Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Paul Campbell,
getting their mates to shut down the last bastion of hard questions is probably the latest Crosby Textor master plan for mediocrity
It took about an hour to fill the "Crosby Textor" box on my bingo card, which TBF was about fifty minutes longer than I expected. Well done, PAS.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Serious question: who here regularly watches Campbell Live? And by that, I mean the full episode, live to air.
I don't -- because 7 o'clock is usually the dinner hour and we have a pretty strict "no television during meals" house rule. I'll fairly regularly watch the first five minutes or so on Three+1, but if it looks like there's nothing of interest on I won't hang around out just out of principle. Sorry, but the "human interest" fluff really doesn't interest me much.
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And then I read Matthew Hooton's tweet from earlier "I understand that MediaWorks CEO Mark Weldon thinks @CampbellLiveNZ & @JohnJCampbell are too anti-government. " and get all depressed again.
And so fucking what? Let's remember which Prime Minister called John Campbell a "sanctimonious little creep" after a pretty rough -- and very far from flawless -- interview on a legitimate matter of public interest close to a general election.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Francis Ritchie,
I wonder if, sometimes, we underestimated what it takes to relate well to people who are different from ourselves.
Almost certainly -- and it can also be very challenging for people who are used to being in very hierarchical structures with very clear and rigidly enforced top-down lines of authority. An analogy, I think, is the difference between Pope Francis (who developed a more consultative, collaborative style while Archbishop of Buenos Aires) and his predecessors. That doesn't mean Francis is going to be ordaining women, opening family planning clinics and conducting mass gay marriages in St Peter's any time soon. But it is noticeable that he doesn't talk to the world (or the church) like it's a not very bright puppy who is going to get slapped with rolled up newspaper if it doesn't stop peeing on the rug.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Russell Brown,
Or you’ve got Family First clamouring with a quote, whether they understand the story or not, and purporting to represent a Christian perspective.
Sure, but as I said on Twitter if the media are going to treat religion seriously then media organizations need to do Journalism 101. Put in the hard yards to learn your shit -- because every story has a context and history. Do the work to cultivate a broad range of credible sources, not just the easy click-bait Rentaquotes. And please, God, can everyone -- from the most junior reporter to top-of-the-masthead editors -- stop going for the easy, reductive get. I know it's hard out there, but sometimes it's really important you put getting the story right above getting it right now.
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42% declare no religious affiliation at all
I think you need to parse that one a little carefully, because I'm assuming you're including those who tick the "object to state" box. I'm one of them, because even though I've made no bones that I'm a devout Catholic (before you ask - "it's complicated" is not just a really bad rom-com and a Facebook relationship status) I also don't think the state has any legitimate public interest in collecting data on people's religious affiliations.
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Up Front: Mind Your Language, in reply to Rich Lock,
Apparently, ‘melon farmer’ was the invention of Alex Cox (the director), who was responsible for the editing/cutting necessary to get this on TV.
And the "airplane cut" is still a thing. If you have Hot Fuzz on DVD, one of the special features is a supercut of the ADR they did on the swearing, and weirdly enough it's even filthier than the real thing and splendidly weird.
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Winston Peters is considering not replacing himself with another list MP. Says he believes in smaller parliaments
And people seriously wonder why politicians, fairly or not, get tagged as arrogant, out of touch and epically up themselves? Perhaps I'm a bear of little brain, but I do tend to hold the view that our House of Representatives is not a basket of trinkets to be dished out as politicians see fit. Guess it remains to be seen whether I'm right on that one...
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Where can I get a hard copy of this report so I can throw it at the head of the next person who says "Why didn't she go to the Police?"
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Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to Danielle,
ProjRun and Top Chef are both pretty consistently great. All the contestants are either really creative or completely wackadoo (the best are both), and the judges generally walk the fine line between entertainingly snotty and reasonably constructive (I do lament the departure of Michael Kors, though. His dated-but-pointed metaphors were a delight). Also: frocks! Food! What’s not to love about frocks and food?
Though even there, I recall one season Kors was quietly but firmly told that if he could ixnay further references to “tranny hookers” in his critiques that would be splendid. Still even when Project Runway is at it’s most hot messy, there’s always Tim Gunn finding an unflappably polite way to suggest that an application of napalm might help things along.
As for food shows -- could someone stick a fork in Hell's Kitchen? I actually like the Gordon Ramsay who is smart, articulate and thoughtful about food. The ranting, sweary bully? Not so much.