Posts by Riddley Walker
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here's a link from indymedia with pics of the AK march, take a look at what TV1 considers '250 people'
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There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing
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Trubba not hamishm, ross arga warga
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media coverage was often misleading or just perpetrated falsehoods (not necessarily deliberately, but falsehoods all the same)
Weston - what do you think about this: corporate media's principle obligation, like any corporation, is to deliver a dividend to its shareholders. secondly to its advertisers, for their ability to help them discharge their principle duty, and thirdly - if you're lucky - to the audience, citizens, the demos etc. of course the marketing dept will always say an outlet's principle duty is to its audience.now what happens when a political party comes along that promises corporate tax cuts, which in turn will help a media corporation to increase the dividend it returns to its shareholders, while another competing party might at the same time suggest it will tax corporates more? Even if the higher tax party's policy might actually be in the better interests of the audience (not saying that's necessarily so, but for the sake of argument), do you think a media corporation reporting on the issue would give better coverage to the party that served corporate interests or the audience's interests? in that situation a media outlet's corporate responsibility first and foremost is to promote an environment of lower taxation and be critical of anything that might lead to higher taxation - irrespective of what might actually be good for the nation or its citizens.
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Ah celebrity mugshots - an artform for our time
actually it looks like he's inadvertantly gotten into some deep-crouton treatment.
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hmm ron, no comments on the late ross f's assertions... what do you think about those i wonder?
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i was at the auckland march last night and the mood seemed pretty positive. even the very few police there on bikes doing crowd control were treated well and some went out of their way to make it clear it wasn't anti-all-police, and one speaker who did try to make it that got heckled by the crowd. having said that it must have felt wierd for the cops there to see such people power against their former Kommander.
Jim Bagnall's Union of Failures was there too in their little joy bus, riling up the crowd who fortunately didn't take the bait, with loudhaled slogans like 'Nichols should get 10yrs" and 'Louise was just a naughty girl just like Clint was a naughty boy'. they were lucky not to be mobbed by the crowd really.
the majority were women but quite a few men, and the demographic looked pretty middle-class and ordinary, not the so-called 'radical' profile that the msm likes to portray all protestors as. i'd say there were 600-700 at its peak.
having said that, while the TV3 late news coverage was ok the TV1 coverage was appalling, focussing entirely on the conflict in the WN march. there was no such conflict at AK although the two distinct events were blended so it appeared they both went the same way. the one person they showed speaking at the AK event was one of the most fervent, peripheral, and the one person who was heckled because clearly many in the audience didn't agree with her views. oh, and the TV1 coverage reckoned there were about 250, which there probably was when their news crew took off for ponsonby road before the march actually started. -
actually if you saw that doco the other night, The Man Whose Arms Exploded (how's that for a high-brow title) - he looked like he'd been putting crouton in his muscles, by the sackful.
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isn't it cretins that put supplements in their muscles, to make up for mental and physical deficiencies?
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3 cheers for Triangle TV for putting on al Jazeera, it puts BBC world to shame, let alone the cheerful fascist pantomime that is Fox ‘news’. Shame on Prime for even broadcasting it to a sentient audience.
Russell, please don't dance with the stars, even if you're a regular John Travolta on the floor. It's like that saying: a gentleman is someone who can play the piano accordion... but doesn't.
'Bad Jew' or no, thanks for the interesting post on the judaic position Stephen, informative and heartening.