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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to Steve Barnes,
And the analogy gets muddied because all America’s Cup competitors are so privileged that it’s harder to sympathise with any of them: it’s not a bike vs. truck scenario.
A closer aquatic analogy would be swimmer vs. motorboat.(Actually, I dimly recall Piers Anthony used a similar set of analogies [e.g. swimmer vs canoeist vs motorboat; pedestrian vs cyclist vs car] as part of a sorting process to separate humans from demons — the somewhat optimistic logic being that humans would identify enough with the others' positions not to attack each other/ themselves when placed in each of the three roles in turn. In Being a Green Mother, I think.)
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to st ephen,
Zulu = “needs a tug ”, which is quite a different message.
Note also that “Romeo” carries no subsidiary message – only one intent? (and meanwhile Juliett [sic] is “on fire”) ...
and then there’s the self-contradictory combination of “Tango—keep clear"… -
Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Paul Campbell,
and somewhat reminiscent of a ponytail
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Allan Bell's research into readers' understanding of news stories (25 years ago!) found the same thing happening repeatedly -- readers' perceptions were most influenced by the headline and lead, which often did not accurately reflect the events being reported.
Audience perceptions from broadcast news are generally even more distorted, as for many stories only the lead is given.
And of course, on Twitter, it's only the headline.
As for retractions ... social media, and web-based media sites, just magnify the pattern we've gotten used to seeing in hardcopy print media -- of screaming large-font steaming bullshit on the front page, and eventual retraction buried in small print on page 8.
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There’s also the sickeningly distasteful prospect that the image polling will double as taxpayer-funded market research for National’s next election campaign. It’s absolutely guaranteed that they will market themselves in the image NZers choose for themselves.
Just part of that plan to “Ambush us for Nu Zillan”, eh. -
Envirologue: Multi-no-choice –…, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
.... Missing the point that not responding is likely to cost us more (even in the short term).
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to nzlemming,
the Uriah Heep of nations
Yeh, though even that’s possibly too ambitious (and indicates a level of literacy that we wouldn’t feel comfortable publicly acknowledging) – more, we think of ourselves as bottom of the Heep, eh …
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I'm happy to be a New Zealander; but why should I be proud of that, as if it reflected some personal achievement?
Not for nothing did Samuel Johnson describe patriotism as "the last refuge of the scoundrel". -
Some smells are more objective (and objectionable) than others,
but how we react subjectively depends on who they’re associated with:Congratulations, baby’s due;
Your home will shortly reek of poo.
But don’t your darling child rebuke:
It helps to mask the stench of puke.( The Right Time, series 1, episode 3)
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Envirologue: Multi-no-choice –…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
*raised eyebrow* You really think National are quite that fruitbat?