Posts by giovanni tiso
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Unlike when? When was the golden age of New Zealand (or American, or whatever) political discourse?
Because I'm far from convinced it ever existed.
In Italy the public discourse overall isn't exactly something to aspire to (it's also a country with a slew of problems that New Zealand doesn't have), but I can assure you we have a number of newspapers that wipe the floor with their New Zealand counterparts. And none of them would have reported English's claim without not just the oppositions' counterclaims, but also some analysis of their own.
And I'm sorry but the five minute turnaround thing is just silly. Newspapers aren't the 24 hour news, which needs to be on time and on the spot. They have every opportunity to present the political developments of the day - which let's face it aren't exactly overwhelming in number or Gargantuan in complexity - in a manner that is reasoned and useful to the public.
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I have certain urges.
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i don't do orientation
Something compels me.
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When the headline reads "'Inflation Figures Encouraging' - English", people think inflation figures are good
Then people need to learn to read. There is nothing wrong with that headline, and the fact that Bill English claims that inflation figures are encouraging is news, and it is quite appropriate to report it. It's where you go from there that is at issue I think. If you just rely on the opposition to disabuse that notion, you're really not doing your job in a case like this. It's not editorialising to have somebody on board - and it doesn't have to be the reporter who signs the story, surely they can talk to each other in the newsroom - who is sufficiently literate on the subject to say "no, that's bullshit", and be prepared to back it up. If you just reflexively turn to Cunliffe for the counter-spin then it just becomes the theatre of bullshit that you've ably described.
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"Max 21". Which is quite short, ironically.
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At this point I should come right out and reveal that a friend of mine in high school was complimented on his penis by the rest of us guys so often it became in fact part of his name. He's now a politician, but I don't mean that in a satirical way.
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i leave that admiration to ladies and gay men
The other thing about homoeroticism is that it works.every.time.
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That's so tits and penises though. I mean have you ever complimented another woman on her vulva?
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I can't remember anyone giving me a mag promoting its penis photos.
That's just because it's not how homoeroticism works, my friend. Man, sometimes I feel like I have to tell you guys everything.
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although some have claimed that the deliberate blurring that occurs in most Japanese porn indicates that they've got something to hide.
Do those people have an explanation for the use of the blurring in anime? Just curious.