Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Hilary Stace,
OK – here’s a serious media question that would involve female expertise in their role as professional television reviewers.
Like Diana Wichtel, who we have asked more than once but refuses to come on television. Or a certain Fiona Rae, who has also turned us down. Throng’s Rachel Cunliffe, on the other hand, is comfortable on camera and has been really good value for us.
Why don’t the television reviewers in many of the major dailies and magazines ever mention TVNZ7? They write about obscure programmes on the far reaches of Sky but never seem to review anything on TVNZ7. Is that due to political or editorial pressure?
We’ve actually had some really glowing write-ups from newspaper reviewers. I’m not complaining.
But the main problem is the failure of TVNZ and APN to reach agreement about listings when 6 and 7 first started. TVNZ was prepared to provide forward listening for free –APN wanted a discount off its existing bill if it was to add 6 and 7 listenings.
I suspect there was fault both ways, but it seems to me that APN’s behaviour shows contempt for the readers of its own publications. Not only are no forward listings published in any of the publications, but publicity coverage of any kind has been hard to come by, and it seems to be a consequence of the dispute.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Sacha,
I think Jackie’s suggestions upthread are perfectly valid topics for critical media attention.
I presume you mean these.
We’d talk about dogs. And houses. And Crown Lynn. And Dads. And dogs.
Unless those subjects become a focus of media coverage, I don’t imagine we’ll be seeing them on Media3 any time soon.
Quite.
Hilary, we don't just pick random topics for a yarn. We're a place for discussion about the media, and our guests tend to be media practioners, commentators and educators, or people who have been the subject of media coverage.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I’m sure Russell and the team have tried hard to get women to participate. Their lack of success reflects other common issues that this thread has revealed: the assumption that media experts are predominantly male; and that women do not see themselves as experts and certainly do not want to get up in public and talk about their expertise.
We do think about it a lot -- and half the Media7 team are women. But it's not always easy to find women panelists who have the necessary connection to the topic, who are confident on camera -- and who are willing to be to on TV. We have had some really strong women on panels -- Tracey Walker the lawyer for one.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Jazz, in reply to Steve Barnes,
personally I’m not too keen on Jazz, any performance that has applause after every painfully long solo smacks of pretentious puffery to me
Jazz applause can be problematic, but let’s not have that rule out a vast and frequently beautiful body of music. Still less let minstrel blackface (ahem) colour the whole tapestry.
Although, I must say … DeepRed mentioned The Police upthread. Sting’s jazz-rock stylings make me feel vaguely homicidal.
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to richard thomson,
needs to quickly read this
Amazing. Worth noting that one of commenters congratulating Nutt on his debunking is a former head of UK Action on Smoking and Health .
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Jazz, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Talk about Livin’ on a Prayer, “not knowing what the record sounded like” yeah, just buy it shmuk.
It's just delusional, beginning to end.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Jazz, in reply to chris,
bailterspace…bashy! dub asylum remix- dat cris. ellie goulding – bag juice! wutless! ya guilty as charged rude bwoy, dat bandulu! autotune 4 zutopeck.
Boomselectah.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Hilary Stace,
That’s great news but can I make a suggestion? Please can you have some more girls on your panel?
Look out next week.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to sarahk,
Don’t like old guys trying to be hip, though.
Oh, get over yourself.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Chris Waugh,
So from what I can tell, if Media 3 is put in the same category as news and current affairs, then us expats should be able to watch it.
Excellent. That's very helpful, thank you.
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