Posts by Hilary Stace
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There are others in the media who have been quietly standing up for the little people for decades eg Simon Collins now of the Herald, and previously of Wellington's life saving City Voice. Here he gently points out the gaps in the Government's latest policy announcement about child abuse http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10839705
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I first noticed John Campbell when he was one of the first to expose that scam on the west coast of logging native tress and that dodgy PR firm, in the late 1990s. He was working for 60 minutes or one of those so-called current affairs programmes. I think he must have been a fan of Nicky Hagar's work back then, and then that led to the Corngate thing a few years later.
I wonder whether he and Helen Clark ever made up after that? Their paths certainly crossed a lot in the years following.
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they want to be presented with an objective worldview
No such thing. Whenever there are people involved they will bring their values, personal prejudices and cultural assumptions to any decision. Even artificial intelligence would be programmed by humans. So usually 'objective world view' means 'aligns with mine'.
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It's not just John Campbell (who personally answers his emails) but the team on Campbell Live that makes this programme so effective. That young journalist, Lachlan Forsyth, gives you hope that his generation will actually be able to save the world.
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Most of those NZ actors and crews taken on for the Hobbit have now finished and are back on the job market, so would be available for such work. What ongoing work will be available from the estimated $12,000 government subsidy per worker?
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Joe Bennett's take on it all in the DomPost this morning.Great photo too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/joe-bennett/7793274/PMs-long-expected-party(By the way Sofie, sorry for mispelling your name earlier.)
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Thanks Sophie. I think the Hobbit thing is a bit like the Springbok tour, and it is going to be raw for a little while yet.
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I'm still waiting for Paul Holmes to apologise to Helen Kelly.
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One other impression from that trip, which probably never happens to tourists now, is that experience of being stared at as fascinating aliens. In one city (Loyang?) when we got off our tour bus huge crowds gathered to stare at the strange people alighting. Not friendly or unfriendly, just stares as far as you could see.
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Cracker: Weapons of Mass Production, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thanks Chris. I should have checked correct spellings and tones (after all I try and be careful with macrons). This was when places were known to NZers as Canton, Peking etc. There were two of us young ones on the NZ-China Society tour bringing the average age down to about 50 - so an interesting bunch of old China hands. Three of us were vegetarians which meant we got wonderful fresh veges from the markets, while the others, being seen as guests of the country, were served assorted animal parts three times a day. This was soon after Kirk had 'recognised' the Chinese government, and NZers were seen as esteemed friends. We even got invited to a banquet in the great hall of the people in Beijing. Mao died later that year and things got even more politically fraught. We met Rewi Alley at his house in Beijing but didn't realise that he couldn't really talk freely with us - he was never alone and under virtual house arrest at the time. But he sent us books of his poems for many years after that.