Posts by giovanni tiso
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They seem to me to be as important to NZ as Concert, yet it's fully funded?
Whatchatalkingabout, Willis? Maori TV is a television channel, it has a HUGE budget compared to Radio New Zealand Concert. I'm not saying it should be otherwise, mind, but let's keep a vague sense of perspective.
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and complaints that the same music available for free on the internet is of lower quality
Let's add the complete inability of the digerati to look outside their own area of competence or examine their privilege.
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but interesting politics (like what you have in Italy) don't seem better.
Tou fucking chè.
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The power of a controversial statement to dominate discourse demonstrated once again.
Not to mention how the liberal Left in this country has bought pretty much wholesale the neoconservative arguments about trimming the fat and using the market to support anything that moves. There simply isn't a money crisis. They're cutting their own taxes! But apparently we should just allow advertising into our public radios, or even suggest to can one of them ourselves, to pay for their privilege. Unbelievable really.
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Nice...
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Such as traditional Maori music, which is also "part of the New Zealand cultural heritage, so perhaps it is be worth funding a radio station that allows people up and down the country to hear it."
Fortunately, I can guess the answer: You prefer your classical without ads.
Besides the work that the publicly funded Maori TV is doing in making indigenous folk music available on the public airwaves, it's ridicolous to think that you can have one or the other. And besides, our music schools are full of talented Maori and Pasifika performers of evil European orchestral music. Do they not count?
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Maybe so, but your point is ?
My point is that I'm really sorry that Beethoven was German, and that he wrote pieces that go on a bit and are difficult to interrupt with ads. All the same, classical music, even in its narrowest definition, is appreciated by a lot of cultures beside the European ones, and perhaps there's a reason for that beyond imperialism alone. Besides the obvious fact that European music is part of the New Zealand cultural heritage, so perhaps it is be worth funding a radio station that allows people up and down the country to hear it. And it is a popular station, isn't it? So what exactly is the problem?
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I'm going to go ahead and suggest that you find this argument infuriating because you can't actually answer it
Myself and others have been answering every which way we know for the last several hours. You just don't seem to be interested in any of the answers. Fair enough, but you could stop claiming we can't or won't answer?
Can't the same arguments be made in favor of [free ice-cream]?
No. Because it's a... what the word I'm looking for? Stupid analogy.
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But I'll defend to the very end his right to do it.
What, wank?
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The Concert FM is an artefact of our colonial heritage, from a time when "culture" was viewed through an entirely Eurocentric lens.
You owe me a desk.
ETA: although admittedly it had been weakened.