Hard News: Media 2011
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Dutton challenged the received wisdom within acadmia at a time when he didn't have a lot of support. On the whole I tend to side with Brian Boyd on the (realtively small but significant) differences they had over the relationship between evolution and art.
But in a world where Lacan still gets talked about seriously in film theory he was well ahead of his time.
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I suppose someone shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but whilst everyone is speaking so highly of Dutton, I was never greatly impressed nor aware of much generosity of spirit. In a couple of spats I had with him, he personalised everything mightily–so I was surprised by Vicky Hyde’s claim (in The Press) that he didn't.
Good to see PA bubbling along over these days–we are in the deep south (on to Stewart Island tomorrow) and flooded rivers and erratic reception are the norm.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
In a couple of spats I had with him, he personalised everything mightily–so I was surprised by Vicky Hyde’s claim (in The Press) that he didn't.
I particularly remember one article he wrote, about the hostage drama in the Moscow theatre maybe 10 years ago - by & large he resorted to emotional spin on the matter:
For me, the most poignant image was not the most grisly: a soldier early in the episode carried over his shoulder the dead body of a svelte young woman. She had a dark leather jacket over her pleated black pants. Her arms and her blond hair hung limply down the back of the policemen. She had panicked, tried to run, and, according to the Russians, had been shot in the back.
Her spiked heels could not have helped her escape, but few of us plan on having to run for our lives when we go out to a schmaltzy, Saturday afternoon musical.
This 20-year-old doubtless resembled some of the Australian girls blown to bits in Bali, the students dismembered in a Tel Aviv university cafeteria, or the young secretaries who jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Centre.
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The other story that hasn't had much coverage from NZ's mainstream media is peak oil. I had to find out about the August 2010 IEA report via email lists and twitter. That report confirmed peak oil has already happened and it was 2005....even while Don Brash's National Party and their media clients and supporters were laughing at the Greens for talking about it. Irony. This will have a much bigger impact on us than climate change in the years ahead. As for media generally, why does the government appear to be so hostile to the only major media (TZNZ and RNZ) still in NZ ownership? The rest are owned by foreign billionaires, one way or another.....and we're fed their political preferences by the editors they hire.
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With petrol hitting the $2 mark, we’ll hear plenty more this year. And some linking of high petrol prices with extended recession.
How much of our daily economics/lives are based on cheap energy? Dr Haywood didn’t get to that part of his terrific series on ‘energy and civilisation’ but I got the impression he was hinting at an analogy between Rome:slaves/Us:petrochemicals. :-( -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
Dr Haywood didn’t get to that part of his terrific series on ‘energy and civilisation’ but I got the impression he was hinting at an analogy between Rome:slaves/Us:petrochemicals. :-(
A startling analogy, but a potentially accurate one.
It's been posted before, but Clive Mathew-Wilson has previously written on the subject.
Today's Julia Hartley-Moores... tomorrow's Colonel Strakers.
And today's Orange Countys... tomorrow's Comptons.
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