Posts by Rob Stowell
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
What I don’t understand is the insistence on big projects. Why can’t they start smaller and incrementally increase in size?
Amen!
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Russell Brown,
None of them smell of roses here…
My view exactly.Equity definitely slipped on a few banana-skins- some of which it may have carelessly left in its own path...
But I reckon Helen Kelly (who only took a public role after things got custardy) comes out looking pretty good. -
Coda on the Hobbit Saga (so mush more interesting and revealing about modern NZ than the films!) as documents released ...
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Thanks Goodrun- poignant pictures. Wish I could have been there, this time :)
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Legal Beagle: A four-year parliamentary term?, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
The suspending/dismantlement/deposing of ECAN received assent in April 2010, well halfway into the electoral cycle.
There was a good 18 months and a significant distraction or two between that and the election at the end of 2011. But yeah: it's an embarrassment and a disgrace.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to BenWilson,
3 out of 6 were Zombie based first person shooter walkthroughs.
They’ve got you nailed :) (Just kidding. But Google increasingly ‘personalise’ everything they do. Don’t like it, myself!)
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Russell Brown,
Instead, Holmes ended the programme’s coverage with these words: “No New Zealander, frankly, could have watched proceedings today without a sense of pride, without being gripped by the heart, could have watched it – without love.”
Holmes isn't easy to sum up, granted.
But again: the exclusion of any other viewpoint leaps out. If you watched the day unfold with anger, dismay, bewilderment or indifference- you're "No New Zealander".
RB's Listener article hits the point smack on:Holmes often engages people – and he has always been frank about it – by provoking an emotional response. But he has rarely, if ever, I point out, talked about making people think.
“I wouldn’t be so pompous or so grand as to say I want to make people think. I actually don’t have the self-importance to say to people that I, Paul Holmes … I wouldn’t have the pompousness to say that, frankly. I just assume that when people laugh or cry or get angry, they’re doing some thinking. Of course, I want to make people think, but I don’t want to say my great intellect is now going to put together the options that will really cause you to sit down and really think this out. That’s bullshit, don’t you think?”
Yet, he isn’t above telling his audience how to feelTV isn't generally great with ideas (it CAN be, but that's another debate!) but it can grab the emotions- and that (advertisers have also always believed) is more influential in changing behaviour. I think Holmes was being honest- but also perhaps a tad disingenuous- when he says he feels it'd be pompous or arrogant to think he could make people think.
He favoured emotion over intellect- a great strength, but also a fatal flaw. Makes him sound like an Aristotelian hero- and in that larger than life way, it's probably not too wide of the mark. -
Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
His career reflects (uncannily, really) the triumph of neoliberalism, the reduction of the mainstream news media to a simple mouth-piece for power, and the consignment of people who don’t think like “us” to the margins.
Ouch. Also maps the erosion of public service broadcasting on radio, and its demise in television.
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Good slot! :)
(Is it wrong to watch TV in bed? Dunno, but our TV now lives now lives in the bedroom. Morning television, on the other hand, just feels wrong.) -
Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Kristen Hill,
In addition to not engaging to manage response, and develop a ‘we are listening to our viewers (customers)’ reputation, it seems they’re censoring FB posts to their page and apparently removing a number.
Way to show the world you really really don’t get social media! It’s all about response, dialogue, interaction and- if at all possible- taking flack with grace and wit.