Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes, B*st*rds and C*nts
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I find it, as Russell is fond of saying, “useful”.
Goddamn bloggers pointing out everyone's stylistic tics.
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Hebe,
Fucking wonderful headline: wish I had written it.
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Paul Williams, in reply to
I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.
Needed saying.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I read it as a tribute to Ian Dury:
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.
Needed saying.
Hyperbole is the worst thing in the world =)
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as long as it wasn't thier write arm..../giggle
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Students in my big first year course are creating blogs about a media issue, instead of conventional essays. Not a remarkable shift, but a useful one. Saves a couple of trees, if nothing else,
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Sacha, in reply to
links welcome
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Surely that's "Bl*ggers, Pr*cks, Ars*holes..."?
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Graham Dunster, in reply to
I bought the album in Sydney when I was there in 1978 only to discover that the pressings had omitted that immortal first stanza. Never discovered whether the same thing happened here - those were the days when NZ actually pressed lps locally...
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A few weeks ago I saw many photos from friends posted to the Pacific Island Forum, having a great time in-between pointing their microphones and sitting at their computers. Not that I'm criticising; there are plenty of photos on my Facebook of me having fun in tropical locations while doing Important Things. Having access to those in the centre comes with the territory. Theirs is a life very much chosen (much like those of the rest of us who get to choose what we do for a living - something many NZrs are denied by circumstance).
Bloggers merely sit at their computers, and if productive they send OIAs and ask those they know for pertinent information. They're not often in the middle of things, and if they are must maintain a degree of caution or anonymity and risk the repercussions of either failing, something which must be approaching inevitability.
I'd also argue that the gap has closed considerably in the last decade, and New Zealand media . When I'm back in Auckland I have to cringe through the editorialising and opinion layered over the reporting of almost anything. In politics it has become especially overt. Whatever happened to "We Report, You Decide" (tm) and the false air of impartiality? At least in Soviet Russia the pro/anti reporting on any given day was defending a regime. Here? Ratings, and the egos of reporters who've been given the power to shape public opinion.
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Sacha, in reply to
In politics it has become especially overt
Yet without transparently declaring the bias.
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You're not a prick Damian
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
I still don’t know any journalist on the way up who wouldn’t give their right arm to jump on that plane to Vladivostok, knowing how difficult it was.
Needed saying.
Same is true in Science, travelling to conferences is tiring, sitting through boring seminars is ... but you get to goto another country and meet some amazing people and some boring ones and some who are both.
You can't really be taken seriously when you complain.
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mark taslov, in reply to
+ Cr*cker :o
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Just for my eyes, initially.
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Damian Christie, in reply to
You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.
I've been on many a work overseas Jolly. Most of my own making, in one way or another. Most recently I went to China for three days, most of which was spent in the back of cars cruising from one side of a shitty great city (not even one of the good ones like Shanghai) filming clothes factories and the like.
I wouldn't describe it as a holiday, but as a life experience it beats 3 days in the office.
My partner used to go on sampling trips, essentially shopping her way around London, Paris, Barcelona etc, with a work credit card, buying clothes that inspired her in some way shape or form, to adapt (rather than just copy) elements of for a fashion range. I went along with her for a day in Paris - shit it was a long day, 10 hours traipsing around shop after shop - I was dead at the end of it, and she'd do that for two weeks non-stop. Exhausting - but she knew well enough not to complain about clothes shopping in Paris on the company dime!
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Damian Christie, in reply to
You’re not a prick Damian
Ha, thanks - but I think I was a prick long before I was a blogger!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Same is true in Science, travelling to conferences is tiring, sitting through boring seminars is … but you get to goto another country and meet some amazing people and some boring ones and some who are both.
You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.
Sorta. It’s quite a bit harder when you have to find ways to file a story every day, even when there isn’t really a story, and you’re on the move and you have to hustle to get people to talk to you. Armstrong also has non-trivial health issues.
When I was an IT journalist in the glory days, it was much easier. You were really only expected to file one story, on return. And we really did get treated very well sometimes. Onya, Larry Ellison …
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Islander, in reply to
’ve been on many a work overseas Jolly.
I spent over 15 years (1983-1998) doing that kind of stuff – and greatly appreciated
the opportunities, experiences, and sheer ‘getting to know some of our world’ – especially when my mother was accommodated with me (publishers et al quickly realised that I was a dismal failure as a socialiser/gladhander…and that Mary is absolutely ambassador-level superb at that job) BUT – everytime I travelled overseas, I came back with a chest infection. Which could take months to clear up. So- I didnt renew my passport in 1998, and have rarely travelled out of the south since then…
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@Islander - I was going through the archives the other day putting together "This Week in TV History" - it's the anniversary of that prize you won, you know the one... ;) So I pulled up the archive material and all it was, was some bloody boring video of the paperback sitting in Whitcoulls on display - was hoping to have something a bit better to share with you!
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...Actually it may have been London Bookshops. So at least it looks dated!
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Islander, in reply to
Kia ora Damian – far as I know there wasnt any video done at the time (I was in USA doing a tour associated with the Mobil Pegasus prize and only(especially !)Spiral collective were in London…the only news contacts with ANZ I remember were radio feeds, with the exception of one video on the night where-ever-we-were-in-the-USA then…was a mormon state because we couldnt buy alcohol-except beer
unless it was in a brown paper bag…my mother duly obtained champagne while I was talking to someone at the BBC and immortalising myself with a stupid comment (I truly truly did think Tom Kenneally had won...))
O – there was a wonderful moment when one of the hotel staff phoned the room and said, “We have an international telegram from a mister lanngee or someone.” -
Simon Grigg, in reply to
Never discovered whether the same thing happened here - those were the days when NZ actually pressed lps locally...
Happily no, although a few short years earlier EMI did provide this edit to the NZBC:
Worth heaps now.....
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Danielle, in reply to
Oh wow, I never knew that! Fantastic. It's like the ultimate "missing the lyrical point" edit, too.
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