Posts by Cecelia
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Seemed to be a bit of a prob with TV on demand but I saw the bit on interviews and loved it. Sean Plunket for Close-Up! He's very engaging on TV. The Hard Talk interview was brill too.It's good to have someone bringing us these gems.
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I can't remember a PM as intelligent and capable as Helen Clark.I don't always agree with her but I think we will look back on her as a good'un. It makes me so mad that people of Wishhart's ilk can't get over her surface features.Grrrr!
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I have just watched this week's Media 7 on TV ON Demand. Really enjoyed it BUT the cynical media reaction to the terrible tragedy of seven sons and daughters lost was disappointing. "An embarrassment of riches"? Gawd.
Nevertheless, it was a worthwhile insight into how the "media" thinks.
As for Absolute Power: can't believe my favourite independent bookshop has a big promo of it. Ahrgghh...
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All drug are bad - I wrote it but I wasn't really serious - just as I guess Finlay wasn't all that serious about criticising Key for not taking drugs in the 80s.I just meant that some drugs are pretty terrifying - Millie Holmes - P. Binge drinking. Winehouse. Our youth.
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All drugs are bad but some are badder than others.
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I do know plenty who would look askance at someone so naïve and incurious as to have never even been tempted.
My point is, he's either being disingenuous, or he's inviting the obvious question: can we trust the country to a man so patently unworldly?
Call me naive, disingenuous and unworldly but I don't like this. Did Helen Clark do drugs? If not, is she too naive to run the country? Or are people in their 50s exempt from that slur on their personality? Are you all looking forward to your kids starting to engage in this rite of passage?
There are lots of reasons why I don't want Key to be the PM but his drug free past is not one of them.
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I thought Media 7 was great - loved the Sunday Star Times story. I think of the film Atonement which I hope to study with my class and which has said word - different context.
Another reason for writing here if anyone is continuing this media discussion is my outrage at a Paul Henry interview with housing minister Street on Close Up last night - I don't know if it was just me but he seemed to be showing his anti-labour colours in such a disgraceful way that I felt shocked and surprised that his bosses could let him go on like this. Whatever the poor woman he said, he abused her. I caught only the end of the sections but ...