Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Damn, I should have noticed this earlier. A great venture, Damion. It too fits with my interests. I am currently incorporating material from my www.historyoftvinnz.com blog into a book chapter and I will certainly add in this new research source.
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Top-notch Media 7 last night, Russell. Hoping to bring a bunch of grad students up for a taping soon.
But what is this talk I hear of TVNZ7 facing the end (as in John Drinnan this morning)??
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@Scott A. I would recommend a long hot shower. I have had several run-ins with Ring acolytes today on FB and they are a particularly zealous lot. Apparently if you don't subscribe to Ring's half-baked ideas, you have a 'closed mind'. Of course, there is a difference between having an open mind and one like a leaky sponge.
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I will attempt to persuade my Wellington-based son Travis (my gene double?) to go. He is the one without a beard.
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@ Craig. What a damn shame especially with such a great film soc programme this year.
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kia ora Ruth. You have joined us!! This and Facebook in the same day–what riches!!! (and what an excess of exclamation marks!!!)
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Just received notice of this new book, which might have something useful to say:
Melbourne University Publishing is proud to announce the release of Media Ethics and Disasters: Lessons from the Black Saturday Bushfires by Dr. Denis Muller.
Media Ethics and Disasters gives journalists the chance to reflect on the ethical issues that arose during coverage of the Black Saturday bushfires. Please see the attached media release for further information about this title.
To purchase a copy of Media Ethics and Disasters, please visit the MUP e-store: http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/
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Does anyone know how folk at the NZ Broadcasting School are?
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..and why are wines described as dry? Shouldn’t that be sour?
All those words that get used and abused, such as natural or authentic
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In all this, I’m still baffled that Trotter ended up in that chair
I know that Trotter is not Mr Popular around these parts but I did appreciate him challenging Deborah Coddington on her facile notion of 'objective' journalism and her belief that the world-views of journalists are not already shaped and constrained by their backgrounds and education--and, as Chris himself declared, 'that ugly word----class"