Posts by Hebe
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This thread is fascinating: I’m learning heaps and it inspired me to do battle with the software I haven’t been able to bend to my will – hence no photos for a while.
These two are from playing with the macro: part of a blue borage bud and a drip on a nasturtium.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Islander,
(I wanted to call it a Doug's breakfast after a scary deputy chief sub I learned from. Give him a piece of crap editing and he would verry precisely rotate his chair and nail the victim to the spot in half a dozen words. Shiver.)
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Patronising unintended. Sorry. Stating what I understand to be long-accepted journalistic practice in New Zealand. The lines have blurred into near-invisibility depending on the outlet and the author.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
I know a bit more than what has been thus far published, and I’m starting to think that this could all turn out very, very badly for Cameron Slater.
I know very little. Tonight’s TV news interview with Cameron Slater gave me the sense that he is now wounding and repelling his own people every time he opens his mouth. Can I conjecture that his father and other National grandees will be very, very displeased with the dog's breakfast this has become for the right?
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It is a valid story Craig. A story that has snaked around to bite the biter and then bite those running the biter. The Herald columnists opine: they do not report; a crucial difference in newspaper journalism. The columnists may indeed be employed on the basis that their world view reinforces that of the newspaper's owner -- and that has always been the case: they are not charged with or pretending to be objective.
A lot of your arguments about this are just that: arguing. Get a new newspaper if the Herald annoys you. I often switch around online because reading only Fairfax becomes soul-destroying: "determinental" is this morning's new word??
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to martinb,
The other thing that really annoyed me was Palino after the election not congratulating Len Brown after a truly resounding win, but saying how worried he was for Auckland and blaming the media etc etc which was essentially saying that he had no respect for the voters.
Tea Party anyone?
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I have just visited Whaleoil's blog for the first time. I feel queasy. Herald-loathers can't really be serious about comparing the two?
Whaleoil blog is shit-stirring, not reportage. The tone is virulent and nasty, without humour or the slightest twinge of humanity. The writing is the ranting of someone who has had far too many energy drinks: no precision, no nuance, no crafting of words (apart from the lawyer's edit).
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Lilith __,
Snap. We have Billy, a very similar but very old grey: part British blue.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Danielle,
Because I’ve got all day.
All weekend too.
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Thanks Danielle. I need reminding of that trip wire. Ingrained sexism always bemuses me when I strike it: it's so stupid.
