Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But surely if they are dry valleys, they should be alcohol free. Drinkers hang out in the wet valleys of Antarctica?
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
why isnt there instant time travel to the Great
Orcon Blend nMixnMash*?Happy to give anyone a lift up from my neck-of-the-woods.
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Russell: will you be needing willing lackeys again, to write out name badges*, direct people to the dunnies, sell stuff etc etc? Happy to do that again.
* or do enough of us know enough of others by now?
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Helen Breeze,
Sure. I have bunch of clippings from Australian newspapers July 8-12. Happy to share the Powerpoint thing I put together too.
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In terms of cosy relationships, we also have John Key dining out with Warner Brothers execs in Los Angeles. I guess they will expect him to pick up the tab.
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Currently teaching, with Philosophy, a course on Media Ethics so this NOTW debacle is ever so timely. I have begun with quoting Marshall McLuhan's caution "Nothing is inevitable if we pay attention" in tracing Murdoch's evil influence. As Russell points out, his clammy fingers have reached as far as NZ, with the sweet ride Sky have had here, as a consequence of the cosy relationship between their full-time lobbyist and politicians.
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Hmm! Dissent in the ranks? I have been away (watching the Super final at the Crown Casino in Melbourne--the only place I could find it screening in a city dominated by another daft ball game--was a low point). But we have our tickets to the Japan vs AB game in Hamilton and I am looking forward to it mightily.
..and Danielle +100000000000
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
My tiny brain would be sorely over-taxed if I attempted to unravel the conversation here..but Lucy mentions Westerns. I have been away in Melbourne and one of the best things I did there (in addition to talking to Henry Jenkins via videolink to Rio) was see Meek's Cutoff (due to screen in the NZFF). A lovely, quiet film about the West and (bravely) a film without resolution.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to philipmatthews,
One in ten PAS threads end in a discussion about how the Listener ain’t what it used to be …
At least it is a reprieve from the complaint that fireworks don't last as long as they used to?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason
And use matching pegs for each pair? I know it could be considered obsessive…!