Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
I’m sure Brownlee welcomes the accountability and hardly needs defending from it.
Which I'm not doing, but hell if you're default position is that anything Brownlee (or any other politician) says automatically justifies the most mean-spirited and flat out ugly interpretation possible, go to.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Am I the only one who thinks that may be a story there, and that it may be just as much about the media as the institutional response?
Gio: Quite. I think the emergency services themselves would be the first to say there’s always things you should have done better – and I’m damn sure they’ll have multiple fine-tooth combs applied. Ditto for the media: Were they too concentrated in the CBD? Fair question, and one I’m sure will be asked – but again, I think we need to be very careful and fair-minded about the practical limitations and human factors involved.
The quotes Steve provided support his case, don’t they?
Sacha: If you’re already convinced Brownlee is a callous douchebag, who doesn’t give a shit about anyone not bearing a cheque made out to the National Party – confirmation bias FTW! With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there are a lot of people who should have been more up with the play in the Eastern suburbs but shall we extend everyone the presumption of innocence until proven guilty?
I'm sure all this is just going to get another "CraigBot" bitch, but I'm trying to be more careful about speaking out of the privilege of 20/20 hindsight and 480 miles or so of distance.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I’m saying no more, I keep forgetting that I am the problem here.
Don't you dare fucking flounce, mate. I think it's perfectly legitimate to point out there is a honking great hole in the response that urgently needs to be filled, but attributing it to callous indifference to the plebs on the part of Brownlee or anyone else is neither true nor fair. As I said, if local MP Lianne Dalziel could do the former without indulging in the latter, so can you.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
so people like Gerry Brownlee could get a clue as to what is going on in the “Less Glamorous” areas.
You're really on fire, aren't you Steve? For all the media twatcockery about 'the Battle of the Portaloos" people who actually know jack about the state of play have been careful not to attribute malice or callous indifference to anyone, but rather acknowledge the real limitations and challenges involved in a real world disaster.
If Lianne Dalziel (whose comments on Morning Report impressed me) can resist, so can we.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I’d rather have a great Christchurch in 15 years than a cheap ugly Christchurch in 5 years.
And there are thousands who'd rather like a hot shower, clean laundry and a bowel movement that doesn't have to be co-ordinated with the rest of the street stat. I understand where Mr. Ballantyne's priorities are (and they're not utterly d-baggy and self-involved), but my symathies lie with people whose needs are much more basic.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
The choices that are made, and the priorities accorded to future spending need to be the subject of debate. There is need to hold the government to account, and to oppose and propose where necessary.
I doubt anyone on this thread could reasonably disagree with Grant on that point – but if one wanted to be snarky, you could say it would be shame it’s taken a disaster of this magnitude to shock Labour into being a competent opposition. But I think Brent Edwards made a very good point on Nat Radio yesterday – of course politics is inevitable because the response is going to require a string of political responses.
But there are real risks for all parties in getting the tone wrong. The more egregious concern-trolling and partisan hackery from the usual Kiwibog-SubStandard suspects is what it is. Any politician who goes there is (i Hope) going to be punished, and I won't be stimulating my crocodile's tear ducts if they are.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to nzlemming,
I’m still working on the shape-changing lizard theory. Perhaps the bracelet is part of his transformation control system.
That only works if Key is as hawt as Morena Baccarin. I'm not going there.
(Spoiler warning if you have any intention of catching up with V, but seriously the show is so utterly incoherent it doesn't really matter.)
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Bart Janssen,
aw but conspiracy was so entertaining for a while, such a nice break from reality
True 'dat. :)
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Surely all it will take is for a major daily to publish an interview with a homeless Christchurch family that is in danger of losing WFF and the whole idea will be dropped?
Oh, but isn't politicizing human misery really really bad? I do struggle to keep up with where the moral high ground is at any given moment.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Rich Lock,
Kudos to The Herald for reprinting the refugee city article this morning.
And with proper credit, when The Herald has a rather patchy record on when it comes to lifting reporting and quotes from blogs.
But, the NZ Herald being what it is, you’ve barely extended credit when some idiot sub throws up a tone-deaf headline like “Battle of Port-a-loos in dusty suburbs” FFS, when I’ve been hearing people on Morning Report bending over backwards to avoid that kind of framing it’s distasteful.
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