Posts by philipmatthews
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Craig and Ben: fair enough. It did occur to me that if Mau is taking a strong on-air position on same-sex relationships -- and good on her -- then her own relationship might not be irrelevant.
outing homosexuals is never in the public interest, unless they do it themselves.
Never? What about, for example, Ted Haggard?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article627349.ece
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This one from Steven Price is very interesting in context: Paul Henry in "same sex couples aren't natural" and "thieving homosexual magpies" shocker.
http://www.medialawjournal.co.nz/?p=347
But if Mau is going to take a position in debates like this on TV, rather than just being a "neutral" autocue reader, does that make her outing by a woman's mag closer to the "public interest" than otherwise?
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Anyone have any idea how much of the local stuff is like that?
About three years ago, when I was at the Listener, I did a very in-house interview with Sido Kitchin, then newly appointed NZ Woman's Weekly editor. Sido had come back from Melbourne where she had been publicity manager for a TV network; at one point, she got Paris and Nicky Hilton over for the Melbourne Cup. This stuff about paparazzi was interesting:
Usually, as a publicist, you protect their privacy to a certain extent. I hadn’t ever had the experience where I would take them out for a private dinner and the manager would say that they will be expecting paparazzi, so I was on the phone pulling in all the paparazzi. The Australian paparazzi weren’t used to it, either. These girls are alive once the camera’s on.
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The thing that kills me about introducing the kids to radio is the ads. The music and whatever else is just the filler between the ads that actually pays the bills. We always mute the ads on TV.
Irony alert.
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Actually no. I'd say C&W has more just cos of Charlie Pride, Freddie Fender and the Dixie Chicks and what the hell, Keith Urban just cos he's an NZer.
Where as in the whole 600 years of the western hemisphere as defined by classsical music. There weren't, if any, women, blacks, hispanics and certainly no Kiwi's in its probably first 500 years.
You've confused cultural capital and multiculturalism.
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Auckland City Art Gallery has an irrelevant Guido Reni - Dead White Italian, died in the same year that Tasman found New Zealand. The Gallery has also received some French Impressionists from some American bloke. We should have told him that they aren't relevant. Bloody foreigners.
We'd better ask the National Gallery of Victoria to give us back its McCahons as well. Can't see how they're relevant to a bunch of Australians.
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Apparently Manhire St is named for one Bethel Prinn Manhire, twice a mayor of Sydenham back when you could still be mayor of it, but also a painter, paperhanger and glazier. Working-class hero.
I didn't happen to know this -- I looked it up on the historic street names page on the Christchurch library website. I've often driven past Manhire St and wondered. I guess it's a happy accident that it sits near streets that really were named for poets.
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I think if the left was more responsible with money, and more willing to look at trimming fat where it existed, then the right wouldn't have gained so much ground in the past thirty years.
Fat? What fat? Russell, a day ago:
But the board has a credible answer to English's injunction that Radio NZ focus on being "creative and flexible, and providing better value for money," from its current operation. To wit: it is, and has been doing that, according to the KPMG review of its baseline funding in 2007, which found no fat to trim at the broadcaster. Indeed, the review found that Radio New Zealand was underfunded and understaffed and did not pay its existing staff enough. In the coming budget year, the shortfall, according to KPMG, will reach about $10 million.
Postively anorexic, more like.
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It's a shame Labour obviously doesn't have the depth needed to takle the issue, which National are sizing up as an issue of National Significance in order to bypass local democracy.
From where I'm sitting, it looks like Russel Norman has this one pretty much to himself. How do you rate his performance on it?
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Neil LaBute (!) is helming the US remake.
Great. If The Wicker Man and Possession are anything to go by, it's sure to be even worse than the original.
In Wellington, "Eagle vs. Shark" was the opening night film -- hardly crowd-pleasing.
Joking, surely. Eagle vs Shark at the Embassy would be as crowd-pleasing as Nirvana doing a comeback show in Seattle.