Posts by Damian Christie
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I think the kid was a bit of a shite to be honest. When she asks what his mother said and he says "I don't know you'd have to ask my mother about that"... that's almost Winston Peters territory :)
(come to think it it Johnny looks a tad like you in the photo).
Now I have to wonder what you're angling for Si... but thanks, yeah I can definitely see the resemblance...
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Good old Lauwaly is now the science/tech reporter & she still claims ignorance on the subject
Health actually, but don't let the facts get in the way.
Look, I agree. For media hungry people like I assume most PAS readers are, the 6pm bulletin from any channel is not going to provide all the answers, and nor does the newspaper (although the newspaper is obviously able to provide a lot more in the way of features and opinion pieces - these are a helluva lot easier to put together in print form than on telly - consider the time/money in writing a decent feature vs putting together a doco).
Thanks to our good friend the Interweb, we're now able to get news from a variety of sources, daily opinion from the best in the game, streamed overseas shows, pretty much whatever we want. But the daily papers and the 6pm news provides most people with most of what they want most of the time. And in a commercial model, that's how it's going to be.
I'm not saying we should accept crap journalism when we see it, but as I once said to an older guy I knew who slagged off (youth news/current affairs show and my first job at TVNZ) Flipside, perhaps you're just not the target audience. Or perhaps we should accept that we need to supplement the meat and potatoes of the daily news with our other sources, as we already obviously do.
3410 In 20 years time? I'll undoubtedly have sold out to some high paying PR/Comms job. Would you expect any less?
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but really maybe one of those girls will become NZs next jude dobson, didn't she start as a game show girl?
When you say "start" there seems to be some sort of implication that she went somewhere. Isn't she the host of Family Health Diaries?
So sure, if we're looking for another person to dress up vitamin ads as 'information', the woman holding suitcase #16 might just be the one we're looking for.
And no, I wouldn't start watching Prime First At 5.30. It's hideously under-resourced and it shows, seriously. I regularly watch both 1 and 3 news (I think generally they're both very good and we are well served) but Prime News really is the poor cousin.
Or perhaps not, based on the ratings. Those 7 people can't all be wrong, can they?
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I need to excuse myself from this conversation, clearly. But you kids have fun.
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I for one will try and keep it fresh for y'all.
That's all we ask for.
Well, actually we ask for it to be funny most of the time too.
Demanding bunch aren't we :)
Thanks Jeremy. Stick around, there's heaps here to talk about.
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Google ya say? Nah, it'll never catch on...
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I don't know about that. Was publicaddress not a blog until The System was added? We never had comments.
At present there are moderated' comments on the Herald's site, moderated in the sense that they have to be submitted and approved.
It doesn't have any hyperlinks though, that makes me disinclined to think it's a blog, rather than just an on-line column. I don't know though, if it calls itself a blog, then maybe it is.
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I don't know if the topic is inherently interesting. I think some of the Blonde's posts so far show that even a potentially interesting topic can be rendered anything but, if it's poorly written or not sufficiently developed.
My interest (and hence my post) isn't so much on the meat in the posts itself, but why the Herald would conceive and persist with such an amateurish approach. For all his faults, even Garth George can string a few paragraphs together.
The original Sex and the City posts (link above somewhere) were revelatory, interesting and original. Whereas this is just banal. IMHO of course.
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Ben - Yeah, because when it comes to stuff to read, those are your only choices - Garth George, Deborah Coddington or Blonde in the Bar. That's some poorly served desert island you're living on there, buddy ;)
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THIS JUST IN ...
Seeing as we're on the Herald ...
Premium Content is deadI don't think even the Herald would've tried to define Blonde in the Bar as "premium content".
I'd still give anything to have the Herald's search functionality on certain other NZ media sites I daren't mention by name...