Posts by Phil Lyth
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brief thoughts: Russ, whatever did you do to Drinnan in a previous life?
Could the Ian Dalziel who won the Wordsworth competition (not online) in the Listener this week be anyone known to PAS? An "aviary of knavery" indeed. (Ian might add the rest of his entry if he is nice.)
I must get round to mailing Farrar's high praise of Red Alert to all the National backbenchers and ask them when they are going to get a move on.
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If you use Firefox as a browser (and why anyone would use IE is beyond me), you increase or decrease text size on web pages (and emails and docs and everything) by holding down control (or apple on a mac) and rolling your scroll wheel. Try it once and you will wonder how you lived without it.
Holy. Hell.
I know I use only about 1% of software features, but how did I miss that? Go Firefox!
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Don't suppose they digitised any of this for linkability?
Not that I can see at Stuff/Dom-Post. So I will do my good deed for the day (to quote I/S) and offer to source the supplement for those PASers who email me - see the nice little envelope beside my comment on the website.
But here where there is online content I learn that nine year old Fleur from Clifton Terrace is a journalist in 2009:
Wellington journalist Fleur Templeton, from the class of 1969 at Clifton Terrace Primary, which featured in The Dominion's coverage, said the excitement was tempered by down-to-earth concerns.
Nine at the time, she remembers pictures of starving Biafran children in the newspapers.
"That made a huge impression and the cost [of the Apollo programme - about US$25 billion] seemed astronomical."
Classmate Sean Kelly Ellis, now an Auckland lawyer, watched the first Moon walk on a TV in a shop window on Lambton Quay. "I thought by now, I'd be living like George Jetson [from the 1960s space age cartoon series]."
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But it won't be your grandfather's newspaper.
Nor that of my youth. The point was neatly illustrated today with the DomPost publishing a facsimile of the "wrap-around supplement to The Dominion to mark man's greatest achievement"
16 pages. Content. Oh my, the content. As rich as Whittakers.
And so different from 2009. Sure black and white, low res photos, basic graphics. But lots and lots of information. The front page wholly taken up with a photo of Aldrin on the moon and some small text boxes. Plenty of wire stories and agency imagery. But also a page of readers letters, Eric Heath's cartoon, a column from the editor ("A news medium is seldom in awe of its role. A journalist only occasionally sees himself joining in the writing of history."), a radical view from WP Reeves, opinion pieces from various angles by half a dozen other Kiwis, kids views and writings from Clifton Terrace primary school, stories with local angles. Not one advert.
How _very_ different from today's newspapers.
Phil
wo is beginning to feel old -
surprisingly there is also this
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Graeme: Would you be of a mind to provide a precis of the progress of the matter through the Courts? I note the settlement was described as 'out-of-court' and that I can find only a few references online to Court proceedings.
As an aside, my recollection is that protests at Parliament were often allowed to proceed until shortly before nightfall (including one where students occupied the top of the main steps).
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talking about sleeping
More humbug. This idea has graduated on this blog to the status of accepted fact from humble beginnings of 'what a reporter wrote.' Weeks after the event. Of course the lawyers who checked the article would know that they would be free from any lawsuit by members of the jury.
If it happened, then why was nothing done at the time? Not by the judge who rules the room, nor by the prosecutor, nor by the defence? Was the reporter like the emperor who was the only one would could see his marvellous New Clothes?
Grumpier
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it is a huge business and in some places a corrupt one at that.
Humbug. The unspoken inference that lotto in New Zealand is corrupt bears no resemblance to the facts. There has been, IIRC, one instance of a dishonest retailer in NZ, which was dealt with fairly thoroughly at the time.
Grumpy
who has been known to buy a ticket on occasion -
Back to informal votes in the CIR, I've just received this email:
The number of informals will be reported at the CIR.
yours sincerely
Robert PedenRobert Peden
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Sacha: that was Ian MacKay's optimism rather than mine. I just quoted.
I'm with Craig Ranapia's implied position (Swoon!) that
meaningful political action and policy debate.
are far better than sound and fury.
The question is how to get more people engaging, when the environment is one where anyone putting forward a view often immediately faces intense hostility from many? Who would bell the cat?
And likewise, who will start meaningful political action and policy debate to change the CIR Act? Just wondering.