Posts by Scott Chris
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Really? I’m casual acquaintances with Laura and I take her word for it that she most definitely didn’t want her name attached to a story riddled with basic fact-fail.
Fair enough. Perhaps she’d been to a really good all-night party and hadn’t had time to get changed.
On the other hand maybe it was a bit rich of Justice Simon France to object to the flamboyance of McQuillan’s pants considering the fact that he himself was wearing a moo moo. (assuming it was the judge who conveyed the objection to the registrar)
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Is a deputy registrar not a registrar?
Is the Deputy Prime Minister a Prime Minister?
Might be a fairer question to ask: Is not the Deputy Prime Minister a Minister?
Regarding the disco pants – well, she got the attention she wanted. What are the odds that we’ll see The Crown Goes Wild’s James McOnie sporting disco pants in the very near future?
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Time for a musical interlude maybe? One of Lennon's worst songs, but somewhat apt:
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Even the Parliamentary Green Party wound up distancing itself from its best-known law reform advocate Nandor Tanczos, if not its reform policy.
Therein lies the problem. Tanczos wasn’t perceived to be a credible witness by those he most needed to persuade. Like the 1986 homosexual law reform, the message is best conveyed by one who holds no direct self-interest.
For centrists like me, if Shearer and Labour were to show a little spine and support the idea of decriminalisation I might be persuaded to vote for them in spite of my aversion to many of their other proposed policies. After all, most of us hold our noses when we vote don’t we? No? Oh well...
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to Angus Robertson,
She is Australian, a mining magnate, has disagreeable politics, resembles a fat interstellar slug creature and apparently its her fault.
I think it's more to do with the ideas she espouses. Fortunately she doesn't appear to be that smart so perhaps she should simply be given enough rope with which to hang herself. Mind you, Donald Trump still gets political traction in spite of himself.
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Hard News: Strange days for journalism, in reply to James Butler,
What a perfect storm of ignorance, vanity and power.
That is why she requires three seats on the board. (LoL @ Vogon poetry reference)
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The principal impediment to that goal is her refusal to sign the board’s charter of editorial independence.
Ideally the separation between media ownership and editorial control would be enshrined in law. If a corporate entity wishes to exercise its freedom of expression is should do so through the appropriate channel - that being paid advertising.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Kumara Republic,
[New Zealand Principals’ Federation president Paul Drummond]It showed how ridiculous it was to expect every child to reach a national standard, when some started from such low levels, he said.
So we should lower our expectations for these kids?
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Regarding the problematic tendency for public schools to cherry-pick the best and brightest outside-zone students, perhaps the use of a mandatory ballot system to determine who gets in and who doesn’t would lead to more equable social outcomes. Failing that, schools could be required to select outside-zone children based on a predetermined standards achievement ratio/formula. (for which National Standards would be a useful source of data)
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Rob S,
I note that Dilworth was started to take on those children whose lot in life had been to be from a poor background but some other criteria is that they were to be intelligent and reasonably well brought up.
Proposed Dilworth school motto: Plurimus Probus De Pauperum (The most deserving of the poor)
edit: Alas something got lost in translation. Google translate: A opus in profectus