Posts by Damian Christie
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This week Craig Ranapia hopes Bill English's budget has a lot in common with a 55 year old record.
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I agree with Geoff. Of course there was exactly the same amount of risk in the stockmarket (probably more) when Cullen decided to set up the superfund. He invested when it was doing really well, right? Hadn't crashed for aaaaaaaaages. What could possibly go wrong?
I don't think Treasury's forecasts are worth shit, the idea they can even begin to say it will be worth an extra 5.75% or whatever the figure was in 20 years' time just shows how deluded they are in their own ninja accounting skills (or more kindly, simply that it's their job to come up with some sort of figure, regardless of how worthless it might be).
Since I wrote my blog about investing in shares a couple of months back I've had an 80% return on my admittedly very modest investment (thanks in no small part to Fisher & Paykel's new Chinese overlord!). If only English had trusted me when I offered to let him go in with me, New Zealand would be sweeet as.
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In the third part of our Mt Albert by-election special, Russell Brown and Damian Christie talk to National's candidate, Melissa Lee.
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In which Craig Ranapia eats his media lunch and doesn't much like the goose sauce.
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Damian Christie and Russell Brown talk to Adam Stevenson from Juice TV about the weekend's attempt to break the world record for most people playing a song on the guitar at one time; then Russell tries to have a word with Jordan Luck.
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Nigel McCulloch talks to Paul Horan, the man behind the Classic Comedy Club, now running the Writers Room for 'Rove' in Melbourne.
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A friend of mine has put up a really good photo-set of the Hikoi
Aw thanks George, show me up why don't ya... ;)
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But Radio Live just throws all manner of things at you, seems like there is no overarching editorial direction at all, which is good I think.
And of course it's the home of Public Address radio, 5-6pm Saturdays....
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Presenters are not the story - somehow radio seems way better than TV in that regard.
I read more in depth coverage from other sources on most topics and I'll just talk to people who were at the event or check their blog posts, twitter streams, facebooks or other.As someone who spends more days of the week making TV than any other medium, but also a fair chunk on radio/print/blogs, I often find myself defending the telly.
There's always going to be an argument/desire for more 'highbrow' television, more analysis, longer interviews etc, and I think we're starting to see that with some of the programming on TVNZ 7. But it "is what it is", and what it is, is commercial telly. It's ratings driven, revenue driven, and until we have a commercial-free public broadcaster we're not going to be the BBC, or whatever the ideal model is.
In the meantime, I suggest using telly to get the pictures, and supplement this with radio and print/net analysis. That's what telly is best at, the pictures. Big sweeping helicopter shots of the various hikoi components merging. Incredible footage of the fires in Australia. The lamington (or is it lemmington?) being smacked down on John Boscowan's head at the Mt Albert rally. That's where TV comes into its own, not acres of analysis.
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I watched "coverage" of the hikoi on TV3 news last night, and I was struck by how many interviews they did, and showed, with people at the fringes of the march.
One News did that too - it's pretty standard to get the voice of the people rather than just the organisers - but Tini Molyneux also did a separate item on hikoi organiser Ngarimu Blair, which I thought was pretty valuable.