Posts by stephen walker
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How can you learn to be a journalist in 6 months?
it wasn't intended to turn out trained journalists. just people ready to be trained on the job. any longer and they might have started to read Foucault.
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“If a Kindle owner can choose from the entire library of
human literature, with access to every book ever written,
how will living artists ever get read?” posited Author’s
Guild lawyer John Dewey. “The Kindle’s ability to read
works in the public domain is clearly a threat to living
authors’ ability to make a living from their works.”from The Onion, surely?
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But he never even attempts to demonstrate that that is in fact the case, beyond saying, effectively, "if the poor dears haven't read Foucault, how can they really know what's going on?"
eh?
nah, he isn't saying that at all. he says journalism courses need to:reflect on, firstly, how knowledge and power are mutually constituted and, secondly, how power relations are articulated through practices of journalistic meaning-making and interpretation
(from Phelan's paper)
anyway, his main method (imho) was to address what du Fresne and Trotter say, surely?
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what's left is quite reasonable
nice piece of distillation, Mr. Judd.
as a distant observer of nz news media, i don't think it is stretch to say that a lack of self-awareness of perpetuating existing power structures is rife. (sort of remniscent of the unreality of the 2002-2003 lead-up to the invasion of Iraq; the "big lie" m.o.; if you repeat some outrageous lie often enough, eventually it transmogrifies into "accepted fact", etc., etc., or even a Super City. not that i'm implying the herald and dompost are like the nyt and WaPo--that would be silly.)
ffs, people seem to have even started referring to "inside the beltway" like Welly is just a scaled-down version of Rumsfeldland or something.
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yeah, probably Looney Tours, as you say.
good old Uncle Doug! between him and C. Knox, they brought us some amazing stuff from a far off land.i go to quite a few outdoor gigs in Japan (generally out in the mountains) and sometimes the sound they get is truly amazing.
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as long as there's a good grey water recycling system in place...
(a bit OT, but did you do the sound at the all-ages gig at Mainstreet around April 1984? DoubleHappys, Chills and some others. never forget that one.) -
but it could be the Gulf Stream.
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if it's not one of the first four, it might as well be number seven million and forty bloody eight! now get to the back of the queue girl!
(btw, it's not only people from chc that make dull-brained assumptions based on where a person went to school...) -
it's been very interesting reading your comments, Simon.
i'm sure a lot of other people who don't post comments hold a similar opinion.
robbery's comments are, ah, interesting too, from a different perspective.
i just hope this circular flow isn't leading down the plughole!
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That's because it's considered uncool among cockies to open one's yap any wider than the merest slit. Or so Murray Ball told the animators during the making of Footrot Flats, the Movie.
true. at least it was 30 years ago. both my uncles spoke like that (not opening their mouth a lot). it wasn't put on at all either, that was just how people on dairy farms spoke.
must be some interesting linguistics research on that somewhere, i reckon.