Posts by Kumara Republic
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Regarding Mr Holt's argument: on the one hand, silence can be golden at times. But on the other hand, it pays to remember Martin Niemöller's cautionary tale on doing nothing in the face of a creeping malevolent force.
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I don't think so -- if Lars von Trier's Antichrist getting booked at the Film Fest (gender equity in explicit genital mutilation!) didn't bring out the SPCS, -- to my disappointment --, I don't think Bill having an attack of potty-mouth would do much. Where are they?
Last I heard, they were all hands on deck stoking the S59 fire. Surely they wouldn't get worked up by Brüno either?
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Completely off topic, but too good not to share. Should a... be a criminal act in New Zealand?
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I'm not actually a fan of skorts. It just seemed a safer joke than my first one: Skirts? Shorts? why not just short skirts?
Neither fish nor fowl to me. Still, the whole thing has "bored newspaper editor" written all over it.
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Anyone remember the infamous Neville Purvis episode? Can't find it on YouTube or NZOnScreen yet, probably due to obscenity issues.
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I get the impression that Kerre Woodham has had to shoehorn herself outside a certain comfort zone, to fit her listeners' market.
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Gio:
You're kidding me, right? Information isn't entertainment. A nation needs good neswpapers capable of sustaining a robust political and cultural conversation. In New Zealand there are none. You don't think it's a problem?
The 4th Estate has become the 5th Column.
Frank Mott defined yellow journalism as having 5 distinguishing features:
* Scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news
* Lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings
* Use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudo-science, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts
* Emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips (which is now normal in the U.S.)
* Dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system.Mott made his arguments in 1941, and unfortunately they still ring true today, if not more than ever.
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Seriously, wtf? It is just nonsense to say it is a minor setback that CA is going bust during the one of the worst recessions in fifty odd years.
If California was a corporation, it'd be in Chapter 11 right now.
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I confidently predict the House would be inexpensively redecorated with skull fragments and brain matter in very short order.
The Taiwanese don't seem to have much of an problem with it...
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Does anyone remember "The Mysterious Cities of Gold"?
It was a Japanese/French collaboration. Cool anime with Incan themes that had the most awesome synth soundtrack.I definitely do. It was the first show I recognised as animé, as a 10-year old. MacGyver was the other biggie for me.
Is TVNZ alone, or otherwise ahead by a country mile, in deintellectualising? NZ still produces decent TV shows that are regularly exported to overseas networks, but they'd be considered 'too intellectual' to be screened here.