Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Not a Neil Birss piece, by any chance? A Press editorial reputedly written by him supporting the 2nd Gulf War and calling the UN ‘irrelevant’, raised questions several years back about Murdoch’s influence, which were later proven unfounded.
We actually looked at Roy Greenslade's allegation that Murdoch had directed the (then) INL papers' editorial line on the war when I was fronting Mediawatch. It was relatively easy to determine that there was no such line dictated to NZ papers. Any buttheadedness was solely homegrown.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to tim kong,
But it’s also why I find the position the Press takes in that editorial – a really lazy one. And apart from lazy journalism – I wonder why the position is even explainable or accepted.
And that's the problem. It's a bunch of lazy truisms strung together with a few accusations.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
An automatic night in the cells for fighting in public would probably have something closer to the desired offence, especially if coupled with a moderate Summary Offences Act fine.
Right. That would have certainly nailed the assault victim I told you about upthread. He was, you will recall, told by a policeman he was just another brown guy fighting.
And your other idea – a free hand for the police in deciding who they’d like to incarcerate on an arbitrary judgement of drunkenness – pretty much screams out to be abused.
Combine that with the hard line you want licensed premises to take in ejecting people they deem intoxicated and you’ve got a scary little mess. If someone is refused service how the hell are they supposed to get home without being drunk in public?
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Carol Stewart,
And today, a really aggravating editorial suggesting that the main motivation of teachers, principals and unions in opposing league tables is because they want the information to be concealed from parents and ‘withheld from public scrutiny’. Grrrr!
Yet another newspaper opinionist bloviating on the basis of what he thinks he knows. There are so many basic errors in that editorial.
This kind of tosh makes me ashamed for journalism.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Wellington Free Ambulance is seeking funding to run a triage centre in Wellington CBD on Friday and Saturday nights to deal with intoxicated punters, instead of tying up an ambulance taking someone with a trivial complaint to the hospital.
That's the kind of thing I was thinking of. I hope they can make it work.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Keir Leslie,
It might be better to start by saying: what ways can we improve public behaviour that don’t involve the use of the punitive parts of the state apparat?
This is a good point. It seems to me that a better CBD environment would have its own benefits. If there were more and better toilets, not so many people would piss and vomit in the street. And maybe as well as flooding the town with cops, you could send in a little non-coercive support -- first aid people, for instance.
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Deborah,
Snap!
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Emma Hart,
But yeah, women telling women what men like sexually. The only universal tip I think of right now is “warm your hands up first”.
To which I would have to say "not necessarily" and "depends where you're putting them".
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Speaking of depictions of women in the media ...
How and why the fuck does Julie Bindel keep getting a soapbox?
I believed then, and I believe now, that if bisexual women had an ounce of sexual politics, they would stop sleeping with men.
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Emma Hart,
Fifty-six percent of unmarried men prefer receiving head.
To… giving it?
In the original the end of the sentence was "standing up". Or "lying down". One of those, anyway.
It is so nice, BTW, to walk into a thread and find the tone already lowered.
We knew you were, er, coming.
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