Posts by "chris"
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to WH,
Thanks WH, In terms of the power dynamic, most notable for me was that John Campbell began by admonishing Key on his past reluctance to front up, following that up with a question about the snapper quota quote, which allowed Key to begin a spiel which concluded with Key stating that the show has made errors and the Right Honorable had come on to “correct those”. From there it was a hop, skip and a jump to John Campbell’s tetchy: “whatever” and shift towards the defensive tone that ensued “I want to come back to the mistake you think we’re making"…"I’ve never so much as had a coffee with Kim..”
As John Campbell mentioned when Russell interviewed him last year; John wears his heart on his sleeve, and he seemed rattled from there on in. Obviously their conduct and the battle of temperaments amounts to diddly squat in terms of the legislation and issues themselves but as a one time TV viewer I can see how middle New Zealand would have gobbled up that load of codswallop.
And I’m not sure I quite follow John Campbell’s vacuuming aside:
JK: No, let me finish, cause it’s really important people understand this. So on your computer at home, you almost certainly have Norton Anti-virus. Or you have some sort of anti-virus thing that you’ve downloaded and paid money for. That is exactly what that is at a much higher level.
JC: OK. Well then
JK: Understand absolutely. Understands
JC: That’s the kind of vacuuming that’s going on.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
the lethally pointed follow-up when you’ve been paying attention to what’s being said rather than just waiting for your turn to speak.
Thanks Craig, that's exactly the kind of thing I want to know. From recollection Key pulled out that Norton Antivirus quip quite early on and that alone could have been ample rope to string him up with.
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Apologies - Campbell with a p, live with a capital L, double o too and “…Also, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but..” should have been at the end of the next paragraph. But anyway.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Perhaps misguidedly I found myself agreeing with this Herald comment:
A politician's job is to campaign for support on stated issues. A journalist's job is to ask questions that elucidate or expose the answers politicians give, not to answer them. Unfortunately too many NZ journalists think that it is their job to answer those questions.
A good journalist knows how to ask tough questions so that the answers will be exposed as true or false.
To me it feels largely academic to speculate on how the beast that is the politician should behave, but I'd be quite interested in reading some kind of detailed analysis as to what John Campbell could have done better. My interest was piqued by your mention of 'still' and 'mover' as I know very little about journalism theory, I'd imagine there must be some guidelines to prevent an interviewee getting away like that. Also, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but in terms of an edited Media7/3 show, there generally seemed to be a very narrow and refined focus, but in this Cambell live interview it almost seemed as if there were to many questions on the table.
Truthfully my heart sank watching that piece, I couldn't help but ponder both the fate of Media3 and how much more solidly you would have dealt with the PM in that situation Russell, not to brown-nose, I've just never seen you as flustered, by anyone.
And this is no slight on John Campbell's abilities per se, I'm probably in a minority in feeling that his Corngate interview way back when was objectively quite brilliant, and I was a little dismayed last year to read his regrets in his handling of that. I can't help but wonder whether the subsequent fallout still lingers, putting him off his natural game in this most recent PM interview.
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Legal Beagle: Gordon Campbell…, in reply to Rob Hosking,
I was stoked to finally get the chance to watch Sleeping Dogs.
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Hard News: The GCSB Bill: We at least…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
number 88
(八 = 8 = bā) in Chinese net-speak 88 is customarily used as 'bye bye'. If only...
8 is also the luckiest number..unfortunately 9 represents longevity, tangentially. -
Hard News: The GCSB Bill: We at least…, in reply to Katita,
Hmm, Norton Antivirus, rather apt…
The main reason of this controversy is the users of Norton is wondering to trust a file name “PIFTS.exe” which was prompted by Norton firewall as it tries to access the internet. According to the internet, “PIFTS.exe” is logging all of their users activities and sending it to their server or in laymen term spying and collecting data without permission.
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This was in 2006, I think.
It seems the NZMSM dropped the ball quite some time ago.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Thanks for posting that Paul:
They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be nothing.
I don't know which is more troubling; armed US agents visiting 5000 household annually or 50 searches per year turning up 'something'.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Surely monitoring these ‘small numbers of radicals’ entails monitoring those communications from everyone-who are for whatever reason-in contact with them. This revelation affects far more than just those training with AQ, communication being what it is.
Anyone here with friends, family, coworkers ‘training’ in Yemen?