Posts by fraser munro

  • Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…,

    "PS Simon Bridges was a Crown Prosecutor"

    off topic and all - but i still become gobsmacked each time read/hear that

    ranui • Since Nov 2014 • 14 posts Report Reply

  • Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to Pharmachick,

    true - but trying to be the love child of tony blair and a blue suit (with a red tie) wont do it either

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  • Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…,

    its telling that in all interviews to date i havent heard one govt MP mention the outcomes for the actual people involved - all comments from govt have been focused solely on the $

    When the issue of mental health is only discussed in financial risk to the govt you know somethings not right

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  • OnPoint: Beyond 'a bad look', in reply to izogi,

    therres a second aspect to the "ill give you a quote" aspects of both key and clarke

    its not just the quote in and of itself - its the media news cycle that then runs from that quote

    Just how often have we seen day one of a story as" JK says x" - then for that to be repeated and requoted over the following days to finally end up as "x is true!"

    Its the habit of turning a quote or opinion into a fact, over several days that is the dangerous bit to me - by the time were reading the quote presented as a fact - all memory of it being just a quote in the first place has gone

    Did this happen with the media and clarke? Or is it a recent thing?

    ranui • Since Nov 2014 • 14 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Behind Baltimore, in reply to fraser munro,

    aaand - thats what you get for not reading to the bottom - doh

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  • Hard News: Behind Baltimore, in reply to Russell Brown,

    was at leigh sawmill several new years back - at midnight a parade of loved up punters, (mostly young women), kept hugging (and kissing) the two police men present, you could tell they were quite happy with their evenings assignment :-)

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  • Hard News: Behind Baltimore,

    apologies if linked already (quick skimming this from work

    the house i live in - http://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/tuesday-festival-documentaries/S01E001/house-i-live

    played on maori tv a couple of days back - highly recommended

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  • Hard News: Villainy and engagement,

    just for the record - despite my criticism, it would be a bit unfair to not recognise that allocating limited funding across a wide pool of applicants - and taking into account some of the more opaque factors - must be a bugger of a job

    Nz on Air do make some good decisions - and some not so good. Humans and all that

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  • Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to bob daktari,

    i would argue that broadcast doesnt win – it, and the local industry, suffers over the long term.

    Its an issue bigger than just the x-factor. A decision to not fund more x-factor isnt a signal of any fundamental change at NZ on air. You only get a limited run at funding anyway so its not uncommon for that well to dry up

    Being involved in this field – its bloody hard to get original content funded. Of course thats not accounting for the good funding that NZ on air does – it does exist – but has many applicants and often falls off the radar

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  • Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to Russell Brown,

    true enough russel - im more talking the wider skill set and roles of TV/film production right from IP through to post. Funding shows that have a wider industry involvement will bear more fruit for eveyone IMO

    this continual funding of imported formats (and then trying to claim they are docos - do they still do that?) and reality shows seems to serve the interests of a very small set of people at the expense of the wider industry and the viewing public

    of course thats just a gut feeling so happy to be proven wrong

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