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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Sacha,
Ah, who could forget Jerry's new CERA logo jacket. A sure sign if any were needed that Govt. sees itself as a brand.
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I can't forget that the broadcasters pay coin to people who make these racist remarks. It is a business relationship. I pay you to write a column, tv face, radio idjeet what have you, then you say crazy stuff, I say hmmm that's bad, you apologise, we all say it's bad, you are both contrite.
Monday morning; more of same, whether you be publisher, politician, current or ex, Maori or not (Tamihere today), or Farrar, if you make racist, bigoted, sexist or partisan warblings. You have sold out for coin and the people who broadcast or publish this; likewise, govt. included.
I'm getting kind of tired of pretending to think that all this nonsense from our Govt. and media is either,
a) accidental or
b) humour gone wrong or
c) PC correctioning methodism
Because it's not, it's just not. -
Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
the Beeb's tolerance
I would go so far as to say it is designed that way, literally racism by another name.
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Time for Space Launch System from XKCD, http://xkcd.com/
A small proportion of NZer's have German ancestry, we don't say much. Interesting headline in the Press yesterday that Brits are coming to save the rebuild.
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Weird because this guy Farrar gets headline advice op props (not opinion piece, national (sic) advice piece) way above many of his card carrying journalist peeps who probably wouldn't be allowed to write an article of this type let alone get it published.
And Key yeah, on that last point you are right. -
See this is really just plain weird,
Headline; Shearer the right man
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10770349
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hehe yes. But also a supercharger ;-)
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Sacha,
Very poignant. Setting up a new body to function as the replaced body (Council) was the very worst idea for recovery. What happens to that body on completion? It's knowledge? And the Commission's funds, in my opinion would have been better placed in the hands of Council, an existing body. Councils all round NZ need to know that they may be tasked and funded for future events, including recovery.
I can only imagine this Commission was a power control mechanism. -
Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Rich Lock,
I don't know ;-) I was thinking of the BBC and how Jez would be a great way of sticking it to the strikers to get a purr from one audience segment, much like Lhaws being used as a useful idiot by his radio broadcaster, not to mention possible political connections (oh I just did).
Using shock jocks to help skew Tory messaging is not new.
"If the BBC and I have caused any offence, I'm quite happy to apologise for it alongside them."
Dead giveaway.
"Prime Minister David Cameron, a personal friend of Clarkson, had earlier dismissed his comments as "silly".
"It was obviously a silly thing to say and I am sure he didn't mean that," Cameron said.
His handler.
"Clarkson previously caused outrage when he described former prime minister Gordon Brown, who lost his sight in one eye in an accident suffered while playing rugby as a teenager, as a "one-eyed Scottish idiot".
"In February, the BBC apologised to the Mexican ambassador in London after the Top Gear presenters described Mexicans as "lazy", "feckless" and "flatulent".
The BBC said Clarkson's latest comments were a misguided attempt at humour."
His broadcaster.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10770338 -
I'm not the least annoyed at Clarkson, I am suspicious of his enablers.