Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Speaker: Why churches should marry…, in reply to Russell Brown,
A cruel idea framed as a kind one.
It's also a horribly confused one, but I've kind of given up splattering my brains up against that particular brick wall.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Sam Bradford,
I’d consider making a line of T-shirts bearing ‘the NZ Herald is a bucket of piss’ or similar.
I'd buy one of those, except urine never did anything to deserve such a horrible diss. :)
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Sam Bradford,
The editorial team need to be embarrassed into upping their game.
That would be nice, Sam. But remember when the British press were piously intoning they were going to clean up their act after Diana died? I sincerely take no pleasure in saying this, but I think the only things that will prompt The Herald to tune up is someone with very deep pockets and ironcast will taking them to the cleaners in a defamation suit with a substantial order for costs attached.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Sacha,
in far too short a supply inside their newsrooms nowadays, perhaps.
No, the problem is the Herald does far too much "moralising" without drawing that tiresome distinction between editorial opinion and hard news.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Russell Brown,
And from her former colleague, Tony Wall, also to me:
“oh for god’s sake enough of the moralising – it was just a good old fashioned yarn !”
This really is some bullshit.
Eleanor Catton told a good old fashioned yarn. Victoria University Press marketed it as fiction. Spot the difference, boys and girls.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Julie Fairey,
There’s a scandal there alright, and it’s not about what type of door but about people who rarely seem to come through them to get the work done.
I look forward to Jordan Williams' furious press release demanding an amendment to the Local Government Act mandating the removal of work-shy Councillors... But no breath will be held.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’ve come to the conclusion the only solution is cloning Todd Niall.
After binge watching both seasons of Orphan Black, I endorse this proposal. But only if one of Niall’s clones does something hideously unpleasant to Shayne Currie with a glue gun, a pencil, the power of science and a really thick accent…
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Russell Brown,
Recap: Bullshit news story draws bullshit press release from bullshit “union” linked to the bullshit, which becomes a follow-up bullshit news story.
A modest revenue-gathering suggestion for NZME: Set up a widget to direct all Cameron Brewer and Jordan Williams' press releases straight to the Herald's advertising department, and charge for their publication at full commercial rates. Stenography disguised as news isn't only bad journalism, it's doing nothing for your bottom line.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
It should not be my moral indignation that you should be concerned about; it should be the sensitivity of those who live in your fair city.
I’m more concerned about the only daily newspaper in Auckland’s insensitivity to basic journalistic norms that were dunned into my head at journalism school not that long ago. I get you’re determined to make Brown and Council staff responsible for not anticipating every potential Herald beat-up, but have you really not been paying attention? It’s not just its personal vendetta against Brown, but the paper’s coverage of the Unitary Plan was so often flat out wrong on fundamental matters of fact I don’t know if it was the work of the merely incompetent or (to coin a phrase) an orchestrated litany of lies. Neither option is acceptable to me.
I’ll just take the win if someone can convince The Herald (and columnists like Brian Rudman & Bernard Orsman) to stop acting as if budgets – and rates – are set by Mayoral fiat. Because anyone who is really that pig-ignorant shouldn’t be allowed in a newsroom without adult supervision, let alone writing about local body politics.
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Sacha,
What an absurd waste of public money. Brown should be forced to go buy his own crap bucket at The Warehouse, like the ordinary hardworking battlers this sleazy pointy-headed elitist treats with such contempt. Or something.