tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post2646498252002030843..comments2024-02-26T21:27:17.091+13:00Comments on The Fundy Post: Victim-bashing for pleasure and profitPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-72583157502608513432009-06-10T13:26:55.564+12:002009-06-10T13:26:55.564+12:00Yeah, I reckon.
What really upsets me is the lack...Yeah, I reckon.<br /><br />What really upsets me is the lack of continuity. Stories with long arcs just aren't followed anymore.<br /><br />What is Helen Clark up to? Dunno. Her people haven't yet decided to send out press releases saying that Helen Loves Her New Job. So the issue will remain dormant until peolpe decide to make it an issue -- those people not being journalists.<br /><br />There isn't a single feared journalist in Auckland. Someone who kicks ass and takes names. People who fear his/her phone call. <br /><br />I've actually had conversations with comms people who agonise over when to tell journalists things -- things that are PUBLIC INFORMATION. Not secret things. <br /><br />We live in the times of the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-5897543833365032092009-06-09T22:34:25.034+12:002009-06-09T22:34:25.034+12:00I remember a couple of years ago, flying back to N...I remember a couple of years ago, flying back to NZ from Sydney. I had an AirNZ flight, and as I walked on they handed me a copy of the Sunday Star Times. I sat down, looked at the cover and very nearly walked right off again,GZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07756723544792981390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-5962865159265395342009-06-09T19:57:05.226+12:002009-06-09T19:57:05.226+12:00I couldn't tell if she typed out what I said o...<i>I couldn't tell if she typed out what I said or if these were already pre-selected resopnses in a drop-down box on her screen that just required a mouse click</i>.<br /><br />Lhaws must have a whole drop down menu all to himself.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-37335243355755572722009-06-09T18:56:58.154+12:002009-06-09T18:56:58.154+12:00I finally cancelled my SST the other day. I felt ...I finally cancelled my SST the other day. I felt guilty. It was like putting down an old dog but one that had ceased to be of any use and had actually become highly irritating with its constant piddles on the rug and inability to stand up on its own. <br /><br />The woman on the phone asked me why I wanted to cancel. I muttered something about Michael Laws and the paper's dearth of news or news continuity. I couldn't tell if she typed out what I said or if these were already pre-selected resopnses in a drop-down box on her screen that just required a mouse click.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-40780646022708308232009-06-09T18:50:31.015+12:002009-06-09T18:50:31.015+12:00But Peter, judging from the web presence I increas...But Peter, judging from the web presence I increasingly think that the oddity is actually about the best paper left in NZ. Given the choice between Stuff's half-witted, semi-literate recycling of overseas celebrity bollocks and the ODT's front page of a lost cat, I'd go for the distressed moggy any day.Tom in Dundeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-59746200126213940912009-06-08T22:06:08.746+12:002009-06-08T22:06:08.746+12:00In Australia, The Age and SMH have some decent fea...In Australia, The Age and SMH have some decent feature writers. Otherwise, yes, we are descending on the internet, leaving the host that feeds on us to die.GZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07756723544792981390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-84334091139571383192009-06-08T21:20:10.801+12:002009-06-08T21:20:10.801+12:00Buck up Paul, you might live in Dunedin and have t...Buck up Paul, you might live in Dunedin and have to suffer the news the Oddity feels fit to print. What class 3 at Opoho primary got up to will have a big photo on the front cover.<br /><br />Mind you print journalism is declining the world over. Here in the UK the self destruction going on over at the Torygraph is spellbinding in its awfulness. That noise you hear is corpses spinning in Highgate Cemetery. I hold no brief for the organ you understand only it used to be fun popping in to revel whenever England lose big in Sport. I did so after they got Clogged at Lords only to find a rambling, incoherent and illiterate comment article.<br /><br />Michael Atherton in The Times is far too sensible to be very much fun and the Graun's Sport's reporting is awful apart from OBO of course.<br /><br />BTW what happened to the fonts on this post?Peter in Dundeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-31779433843886961992009-06-08T20:07:19.166+12:002009-06-08T20:07:19.166+12:00I don't know if you are an irrepressible optim...I don't know if you are an irrepressible optimist, or a deluded fool either, I do know the papers in NZ (and Australia) are uniformly puerile. That you spent about 15% of this post setting the context by which you found yourself in posession of a Sunday News made me laugh. I am smugly revelling in this morning's Guardian and yesterday's Observer Magazine, half-read in the bag.sashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14830020017743741010noreply@blogger.com