Posts by David Slack
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I've essentially grown up with Hard News (I started listening as a high school kid in '91 or '92), but there's a sense of continuity and history implied in the format -- a smooth line of transition from radio broadcast to email bulletin to community blog.
I find myself looking back in surprise at the way you can habituate. Until you mentioned it, Caleb, I'd forgotten missing Hard News in the hiatus between radio and online. And the novelty of the change in style from radio script to blog.
Also - the idea of continuity for people who began as listeners at High School is cheering, in the context of the Guardian story.
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You have to admire the efficiency and productivity of the journalism, though. A headline that ends with a question mark will surely shave many hours off the time it will take you to get a story written.
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Pay for teachers - relative to other careers - began to erode somewhere around the late 70s, though, it seems to me. To put a fiscal value on it.
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Heh. I'd like to think the overhauled system, when I push the button on it, will be capable of such a thing. But with more flesh, of course.
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lest the TV demographers get any ideas ....
Depends how you do it.
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Verdict: Guilty
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Is it not the few months preceding conception that they're interested in, though?
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Which looked pretty binary. Who are the hanger-onners, apart from real estate types? What are the tasks that we should be discouraging?
Kyle, I quizzed myself about this while I was out running. I don't really see the net going wider than I first cast it, which was based on what I see when I look around the extended family: people who flip property (enabled by a borrowing binge) and people working in rent-taking quasi- monopolies such as Vodafone, Telecom, and Microsoft (in which case I refer to the premium being extracted, thus enabling surplus layers of staff, than the service in toto). I may well be missing some, though. My essential point, though, is that the ship is listing from too many passengers on one side. I'm not looking to vilify anyone.
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Kyle, my words might not be clear. I'm segregating into three. Hangers-on applies to just a proportion of the non-exporters. What matters is that at least some of the non-exporter group change over.
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Wow, Jackie. His name wouldn't have been Tom, would it?