Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Barnaby Bennett,
I find it very frustrating that these huge financial and planning decisions are being made with little critical examination or discussion.
Quite! I haven’t found anyone in Christchurch who is happy with the Convention Centre. It’s just a fait accompli with a shitload of taxpayer money. It’s really very definitely a story.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Surely Russell, with your insight into the workings of the media, you’re aware that events that are now over two years old,
Four years. This post was published on the fourth anniversary of the first quake.
however monumentally tragic they were, have now lost significant traction outside of Christchurch.
It’s arguably not fair, but most of life isn’t.So people should just do the right thing and STFU so you don’t feel bad? You've gone from calling the inattention a "fabrication" to saying that's just how is so suck it up.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Do you blame the world press including our own for not regularly detailing the awful plight of those poor folk in Gaza….now that the Israeli onslaught is over? I bet Gazans wish the publicity remained.
But these are our fellow New Zealanders, and our government. That's the difference, surely.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
I visit Christchurch regularly Russell. I know the situation well. Very presumptuous of you to assume otherwise.
My apologies then. I also grew up in Christchurch, I get down there several times a year, and this place has been a sounding-board for Christchurch people since the first quake. I don't take offence at their frustration.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
“Auckland media, with few exceptions, have given almost no space to ChCh issues.”
That kind of fabrication sums up precisely my frustrations. It reeks of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story.
"A good story"? Could you be any more dismissive? C'mon. You've just acknowledged the newstime numbers in Gerard's post. How is saying the same thing a "fabrication"?
I honestly do think you're really lacking in empathy here. I think you haven't been there, you don't know how hard it is for people and you you're fixating on some perceived offence to Aucklanders as if it's the main point. It just isn't.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
And before any of you feel the need to abuse me, count to 10 and dwell on the fact that debate is the lifeblood of democracy.
Which implies that people can and will question your reasoning. That’s not abuse.
And can I also ask that you try and show a little empathy? The people you're having a crack at have been through trauma and they do feel mistreated and ignored.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Oh no Barnaby. You can’t get away with describing Gerard’s article as not being “negative about people outside of Christchurch.” Comments such as “Aucklanders were just not interested” and “the Auckland-based networks were just not interested” are implicit in the disparaging negativity and xenophobia that themes the article.
They're descriptions of his experience. He is entitled to air them.
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And finally, some ducks on a sunny Spring morning.
Sorry.
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From the same ride, structures and blue sky.
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Got up early for a ride this morning, checked out the new Grafton cycleway.
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