Posts by Lyndon Hood
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If I understand Gower (and he's right), Act was wrong about their own version too, because Corrections 'serious violent' definition was broader again the Act's.
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The result was that everything looked like 'fuck'.
Apparently some US TV stations bleeped the Rev. Wright "God damn America" thing.
As in, "God #$%& America!"
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I could have sworn I put the comma in. We established there was supposed to be a comma, right?
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clubttic
Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated. It's knowledge, bro.
also:
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Who decides the resource consents?
Bear in mind the RMA is being remixed as we speak.
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It does surely make it difficult for the government to accuse Cullen of gross financial impropriety if they've appointed him to an SOE board.
Well, not 'difficult' but perhaps less credible.
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Trans Tasman - Cullen To Chair NZ Post And Kiwibank
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it's impossible to know the background of every story you're asked to write
If I'm following:
The point here isn't about their context. It's being aware of yours.
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I think the trick would be to repackage all the business about cultural context and the dominant paradigm as Common Sense, sort of as a sugar coating to suit the gullet of the kiwi brain. I think as a nation we could handle that much.
But then again, some bastard in the back row would always go, "Wait a minute! This is postmodernism!" and ruin everything.
On the bright side, Giovanni appears to be the underdog.
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Personally I think journalists - teachers and editors particularly - should be conscious of things like how the claim to neutrality is taking a position and that ideas of what journalism is, and should be are cultural artifacts.
This is not the same thing as columnists having to like longwinded academic prose, which, scanning the paper, seems to be the complaint.
I can also accept the validity of high-level academic critical study of journalism without demanding journalist concern themselves with it.