Posts by George Darroch
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Thanks Russel. What a spread of wonderful music… on such a delightful early autumn Auckland day.
Loving the new Bobby Womack tracks. His voice is still golden, and the Albarn production is a lively counterpart. I’m so glad Womack’s still around.
Dropping this here, because this album is blowing up my speakers. Rich deep Barcelona house:
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John Hayes seems to have an axe to grind – perhaps at one time John Allen got the girl and John Hayes missed out.
John Hayes - MFAT enmity is hardly new, it goes back most of the last decade.
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Well, McCully did promise today to cut $40 million from MFAT today. Motive from the inside, perhaps?
I'm starting through the emails, and they reveal a lot of arrogance from the minister's office, plenty of deprecation of his Pacific counterparts, cosy Australian relationships, and general ignorance towards foreign aid.
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Having lifted less than 100 pavers in the last week, I have an approximation of your pain. However, they are almost indestructible, and extremely useful.
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Southerly: Deconstruction and Construction, in reply to Emma Hart,
Okay, I’m not a big fan of spa pools, but I’m pretty sure you’re doing this wrong. There should be Other People, and Alcohol.
You don’t need water to drink alcohol.
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Oh can it, Graeme. She's being asked to cut a very large part of her budget just to get something that puts her on the starting blocks. Nobody who has paid this any attention is that she's paying from her salary. They've all been quite clear that her paying from it means her using her existing operational budgets.
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And yesterday she did radio interviews in which she sat opposite the interviewer, lip read the questions and spoke in response to them. It puzzles me that some people can't see how far she is already coming to meet the rest of us.
Yeah totally. Although it's worth noting that her communication has been through lip-reading and speaking, until the 2000s when she learned Sign to broaden her communication. In other words, she's been coming to meet the rest of us her entire life.
It still amazes me how the temporarily-able-bodied considered that disabled are out to inconvenience them
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Sorry that was me being a clever sod. The assumption is that Cabinet’s primary motive is poor ratings rather than an ideological position that the government has no role in providing television stations, and that these are better run and managed as for-profit private entities. Insomuch as this is the case, it wouldn’t matter if TVNZ7 gathered 2 million viewers per week. The only thing this would change is the political difficulty in executing such a decision. The relative ratings of 7 expedite this, in a way that Radio New Zealand is not yet subject to.
That ideological position can stand on its own, of course. There are arguments for and against. However, that’s an entirely different position, as indeed this post and your comments note.
[ETA: Now, I'm assuming that this is a Cabinet-driven decision and thus has Key, English, and Joyce behind it, rather than Coleman primarily.]
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all measurements of readership, viewership, listening are estimations and extrapolations of what much larger populations read, watch and listen to–and thus subject to all kinds of reservations, cautions and limitations
And tell us nothing about the level or quality of engagement with that material. A person may watch one hour of television per week, but that documentary or soap opera may be compelling and valuable to that person and enrich them greatly. Alternately, motor racing may play on a Sunday afternoon as background filler between salad and sausages. By way of comparison, I only read a few fiction books in a year, but they all mean something to me.
Now, we can dig in to these experiences with research about values, but simple metrics are by their very nature limited.
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decision... based on flawed data.
That's an assumption.