Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Welcome back to the bad old days pre-Roger.
Dear lord.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Shopkeepers spend more in other shops, other shops employ more people and so on ad-infinitum
Welcome to socialism! Although even I would have to note for honesty's sake that we've had a few problems with the "ad infinitum" part.
But yeah, the idea that it's cheaper to buy overseas doesn't take into account the cost of people losing their jobs domestically, and the cost of having a fucked up balance of payments.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Andre,
Like a capital gains tax-introducing non-National party party that doesn't require us to compulsorily go organic?
Sorry, can you take me back to the part where the Greens are saying that buying local or going organic should be compulsory, as opposed to incentivised?
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What I'm going to miss the most, on the children side of things, is actually the TVNZ7 news. My lot is growing up without newspapers in the house, which is bad enough, but also without the 6 o'clock news, and you can only make do with radio to a point.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Andre,
that means that a lot of left-wingers who are less concerned with environmental, feminist and race issues
So... Christ Trotter basically?
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I hereby grant Danielle full power of attorney to represent me in this conversation.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Broadcast TV is just fine and dandy and y'all can trust that your favourite programs will get made just like they used to.
That's not what I said. I'd just hesitate to say that a) people don't watch tv or b) that they don't watch live TV just because I personally don't. The problem of how to fund good, public service oriented programmes remains. And it will need to factor in the high likelyhood that viewing patterns will reflect the movement you described.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yup. But we aren't watching it as it's broadcast.
That's vastly overstated too, apparently. There was something in the paper not long ago.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Bart Janssen,
To me that is the place of the government. To pay for locally relevant content. Stuff that serves 40000 viewers at a time who have no way to organise themselves to pay for that content but can contribute to a common pool of money that can then be used to pay for that content.
You mean like in most other countries on earth? You're a dangerous extremist who must be stopped.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Kumara Republic,
is NZ headed for its most anti-intellectual atmosphere since Muldoon?
I wasn't around in Muldoon's days, but this Listener editorial says yes.
Then again, in the Seventies there was no Internet.