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Public Address 14/07/08 - Radio Times
Monday, 14 July 2008, 1:48 pm | Public Address
Noelle McCarthy has responded tartly to Bill Ralston's Listener column depicting Radio New Zealand National as a "rest home" serving "an insipid menu of stewed apple and bananas" with a side order of "smug, hand-wringing liberal contortions". Amusingly, ... More >>
Public Address 10/07/08 - So far from trivial
Monday, 14 July 2008, 11:53 am | Public Address
So far from trivial | Jul 10, 2008 11:36 Russell Brown's Hard News If the gruesome detail we've heard about Tony Veitch's assault on his former partner has made its way past Fairfax's lawyers, and has not attracted even the hint of a denial from ... More >>
Public Address 11/07/08 - A Trip to Canberra
Monday, 14 July 2008, 12:08 am | Public Address
Consumer | Jul 11, 2008 12:33 Russell Brown's Hard News Well, I bought my iPhone. 16GB, black, on the lightest of the 24-month plans. The sales process is reasonably impressive. At the Digital Mobile kiosk at St Lukes mall (there was a queue at the ... More >>
Public Address 01/07/08 - Tastes like democracy
Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 12:53 am | Public Address
Fairfax Media is making appropriately soothing noises about its plan to "review" the positions of as many as 50 sub-editors on its stable of print publications, but the equation is clear enough: it aims to improve quality by cutting service. That ... More >>
Public Address 30/06/08 - "Evil called..."
Monday, 30 June 2008, 7:55 pm | Public Address
Oh cool. National is using Crosby/Textor again. According to a Star Times story by Nicky Hager, the political strategists that focus groups are most likely to associate with the word "evil" have been on board with the John Key project from the beginning: More >>
Public Address 27/08/08 - A little understanding
Friday, 27 June 2008, 2:38 pm | Public Address
My last Listener column is here. It is, you probably won't be surprised to learn, about the internet: and more specifically about the role the internet has played in revealing, explaining and supporting the key fact of our family's life -- that ... More >>
Public Address 26/06/08 - Big Norms
Friday, 27 June 2008, 1:14 pm | Public Address
I come to praise Helen Clark's government as we prepare to bury it. You may have heard Laila Harre on the radio on Monday. Evidence from a focus group suggests that people are not aware that credit for various changes are due to the present administration. ... More >>
Public Address 25/06/08 - If we only had time
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 4:03 pm | Public Address
If we only had time | Jun 25, 2008 01:20 Graeme Edgeler learns the lesson of history A couple of days ago, the organisers of a petition to Parliament seeking a referendum on the question "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal ... More >>
Public Address 24/06/08 - Special extra bonus!
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 1:16 am | Public Address
A crack band of Kiwi mercenaries emerges from the presidential palace with Robert Mugabe's head on on a pike. The world roars its approval. We bring them home in tickertape of a volume not seen since the Americas Cup. Too extreme? How about if they drag ... More >>
Public Address 24/06/08 - Spectacular but useless
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 1:04 am | Public Address
The Herald has had two bites at the new New Zealand Drug Harm Index developed by Berl for the New Zealand Police. The first is a fairly plain NZPA story that appeared yesterday on the paper's website. The second is the one headed $1.3b... More >>
Public Address 23/06/08 - Google Trending
Monday, 23 June 2008, 4:42 pm | Public Address
Google Trending and MGMT | Jun 23, 2008 09:16 Russell Brown's Hard News The new Google Trends for websites provides some intriguing results. For instance; the other website most visited by readers of The Listener's website is this one -- by miles. ... More >>
Public Address 20/06/08 - Travelling Gravely
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 7:11 pm | Public Address
I often use Auckland Co-op Taxis' voice prompt system to call a cab from home. It's quicker and, it would seem, no less reliable than talking to a human. The system is now even sophisticated enough that you can use it to forward book a taxi. Now ... More >>
Public Address 19/06/08 - The longest last time
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 6:54 pm | Public Address
Wendyl Nissen said to us: there is no right way to feel when someone has died; there is no correct way to react. She said: You have permission to do whatever feels right. Once Patricia Herbert said to me: I like a good funeral. Patricia is a historian. ... More >>
Public Address 18/06/08 - Fillerup!
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 10:22 am | Public Address
I've always said that if oil is going to run out, the best thing we can do is to chew through it as quickly as possible so we can move onto something cleaner. Like those water-fuelled engines my P-smoking friends insist the petrol companies have ... More >>
Public Address 17/06/08 - Tragedy into Crisis?
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 7:22 pm | Public Address
Tragedy into Crisis? | Jun 17, 2008 09:35 Russell Brown's Hard News I wasn't there, but I suspect a gambling god could run yesterday's dreadful events in a Manukau car park over and again and fail to produce something as heart-rending as what is described ... More >>
Public Address 16/06/08 - BP-Fuelled Rage
Monday, 16 June 2008, 8:56 pm | Public Address
Here comes an inquiry into the competitiveness of the oil market. Do you want to be better informed? It probably depends on your preference at the firing squad: blindfolded, or defiantly facing your despised enemies. Transparency may well help at the margin ... More >>
Public Address 13/06/08 - Feeling Unserious
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 3:53 pm | Public Address
There were some serious things I could have blogged about this morning, but it didn't happen. I'm just feeling unserious. It's happy time. And nothing made me laugh more this week than the "product reviews" on the John McCain golf store. It took them ... More >>
Public Address 12/06/08 - Better ... prettier
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:16 pm | Public Address
Public Address readers are generally understanding about the appearance of advertising on this site. But one thing that bugs me -- and, I suspect, many readers -- is the auxillary ads. When the fine people at Scoop Media haven't sold a particular space ... More >>
Public Address 11/06/08 - New Sky
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:25 am | Public Address
I'm just back from the Sky HDi launch: Sky HDi being the HD-capable digital video recorder that will enable Sky subscribers to receive the HD broadcasts -- sport, movies and the handful of programmes Sky produces itself -- which will commence next ... More >>
Public Address 10/06/08 - Law and Medicine
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:37 am | Public Address
The High Court review of the workings of the Abortion Supervisory Committee has opened a can of worms that caused social convulsion in the 1970s. We knew the process was a fudge, but it has long seemed to be a fudge the majority of the country can live... More >>
