Posts by simon g
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I can't believe television is going to beat twitter with the news. How quaint.
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A peak time live TV speech? That means good news, or ... a snap election?
"It doesn't give my opponents mush time, either ..." (hic)
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Still, in all this debate I wonder if there is any space for the notion of cultural nationalism.
Nationalism, or rather ... cultural reality.
It's still an uphill struggle for those who want to call this place "Aotearoa". Or be a republic. But we love being "Middle Earth". We seem less interested in what we are, than in what we can make the world believe. From that we get our identity, reflected back.
I think that's sad.
And counter-productive. Increasingly, international media reports seem to portray us not as "Middle Earth", but as a country desperate to be Middle Earth. I think they're less impressed, and more bemused. Or amused.
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Danyl M has also been translating Key:
http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/voiceless-it-cries/
My take: There will be tax breaks, or worse - changes to employment law will be scribbled on the back of an envelope, and this wil be sold as "cheaper than tax breaks", therefore, "good".
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So, Key speaks to TV3:
1. The film was "'good to go" before the boycott threat.
2. Therefore it wasn't about tax breaks.
3. So there will now be tax breaks.
That's the de-spinned version, anyway.
Congrats to Amanda Gillies. The money question, and the money quote.
When will anybody ask such questions to the Prime Minister? I know he's not actually in charge of our country, like Simon Whipp, but still ...
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So, what action do people want the government to take, as a result of these rallies?
It's "Hope" ... for what?
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The 20 Oct rally was the lead story on One News, at 6 pm.
Saying that the Hobbit has had more coverage would have been sensible, and true. But what you actually said was very silly and demonstrably false.
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A CTU campaign for fairness at work on the 20th October 2010 has not registered anywhere in the media.
Except for widespread TV, radio and press coverage, the existence of which it would have taken you 0.1 seconds to discover, courtesy of the same machine you used to say there wasn't any.
Then again, the Hobbit story has not registered anywhere in the media, because I'm fixated on the Wayne Rooney stay/go/stay story, and have chosen to ignore everything else. My world = everyone else's world, fingers in the ears, yeah, that works for me too.
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Hobbit Cast:
Martin Freeman – Bilbo Baggins
Richard Armitage - Thorin Oakenshield
Aidan Turner - Kili
Rob Kazinsky – Fili
Graham McTavish – Dwalin
John Callen – Oin
Stephen Hunter – Bombur
Mark Hadlow – Dori
Peter Hambleton – Gloin(Scoop.co.nz)
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The initial 'Hobbit' cast has been announced:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/peter-jackson-sets-first-names-for-the-hobbit/
Several New Zealanders. Does Martin Freeman have a UK Equity card?