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Public Address 5 April 13 - Done like a dinner
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 11:43 am | Public Address
Patrick Gower's excellent 3 News report on Thursday, confirming that the government will pay Rio Tinto for it to keep on using cheap power at Tiwai Point, includes a merciless moment about a minute in. More >>
Public Address 28 March 2013 - A little Easter whip-round
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 4:55 pm | Public Address
One thing I'm going to be doing this long weekend is taking in the new Rhian Sheehan album, Stories from Elsewhere, which expands on his trademark cinematic style. It's available for $20 on Bandcamp in the usual range of formats. More >>
Public Address 27 March 2013 - Ways to Grow Up
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 12:23 pm | Public Address
Know what I hate? Yes, you do. Know what else I hate? Those lists of things people should be able to do to be proper… whatever. Men. Women. New Zealanders. Grown-ups. They’re normative and stereotype-reinforcing and they’re always going to make ... More >>
Public Address March 7, 2013 - Great Southern Land
Friday, 8 March 2013, 12:29 pm | Public Address
Five years ago, we lived in a house over the fence from Middleton Grange’s school auditorium. Some mornings, when I went to hang the washing out, I’d hear the cheerful strains of Queen coming from that hall, and it really used to piss me off. How about ... More >>
Public Address 18 February 2013 - When "common sense" isn't
Monday, 18 February 2013, 5:02 pm | Public Address
The call by Wellington coroner Ian Smith last week for a law change to make hi-viz clothing compulsory for all cyclists, just as helmets are now, got a lot of coverage but precious little scrutiny on Friday. More >>
Public Address 8 February 2013 - Free and Legal
Monday, 11 February 2013, 10:23 am | Public Address
Imagine if public libraries provided free music of all kinds to their members, to keep, in an orderly, accessible and thoroughly legal fashion. Well, you don't have to imagine it: that been the case at Auckland Libraries for the past year, since ... More >>
Public Address - The perils of environmental league tables
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 1:39 pm | Public Address
In the set-up post for Saturday’s Media3 programme, I noted that it was important to recognise that the controversial ecologist Dr Mike Joy ought not be immune from criticism – but his critics should be able to do what he does, and cite evidence ... More >>
Public Address 21 November 2012 - Triangulated by Fools
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 12:10 pm | Public Address
I deliberately avoided writing anything about the Labour leadership last week because I had no interest in being part of a media tally for either side - which I could see would inevitably be the case. Apart from anything else, it’s not my fight. More >>
Public Address: Party on, dudes
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 5:12 pm | Public Address
Ten years ago today, the first post appeared on this website. It asked “are we on in Iraq or not?” I’m not very good with calendars, but I know this because a certain government minister recently insisted that blogs didn’t exist way back ... More >>
Public Address - Crossing the line into idle bigotry
Monday, 12 November 2012, 6:06 pm | Public Address
"Stephen McIntyre was a good man." Those are the first words of Bomber Bradbury's blog post about the circumstances surrounding the death of his friend. If you knew Stephen, I think you'd understand why Bomber chose those words. They're basically... More >>
Public Address 26 October 2012 - Return of the Brothers
Friday, 26 October 2012, 1:09 pm | Public Address
What the hell sort of band are Kora? Rock? Funk? Aotearoa reggae? Soul? All of the above, with a big serve of electronic dance music, on the evidence of their new album, Light Years, which they showcased at a really enjoyable launch party for fans and ... More >>
Public Address 19 October 2012 - H4x0rs and You
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 12:51 pm | Public Address
“No good can come of a hacker talking to a TV journalist,” my hacker friend said when I asked him to go on camera for a TV journo. He was goddamn right. I gave Paul Craig’s name to one journalist on Tuesday morning and to a few others after that. More >>
Public Address 15 October 2012 - MSD'S Leaky Servers
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 4:58 pm | Public Address
My jeans were torn, my hoodie was pretty ragged, and I hadn’t shaved for a week. It turned out that bloggers are remarkably good at disguising themselves as unemployed, without even trying. Last week, I got tipped-off that the parts of the MSD network ... More >>
Public Address 8 October 2012 - A Workable Capitulation
Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 2:40 pm | Public Address
Prime Minister John Key has returned from a flying visit to Los Angeles announcing he has negotiated a workable capitulation to the demands of Hollywood moguls in the matter of tax concessions and incentives for American film studios. More >>
Public Address 3 October 12 - Kim Dotcomnibus
Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 11:57 am | Public Address
Although TV3 in particular has been able to build a successful development strategy around comedy in recent years, the hard stuff - satire, and particularly political satire - is basically absent from our screens these days. More >>
Public Address 27/9/2012 - Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers
Friday, 28 September 2012, 5:08 pm | Public Address
We are advised we will have the result of Justice Neazor’s report into the admitted unlawful spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) by the end of the week. More >>
Public Address 24 September 2012 - National Standards
Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 5:09 pm | Public Address
Hey John Hartevelt. Let me get this straight. A lot of people told you not to published this data. Some of them were dicks to you, others gave you very specific reasons: Anyone who read the National Standards results as a proxy for quality would be quite ... More >>
Public Address 14 September 2012 - Music: Scary Young
Friday, 14 September 2012, 5:55 pm | Public Address
I wasn't able to get to the Apra Silver Scroll Awards last night (you may wish to view the fruits of my labour, including a frank and absorbing interview with Phil Kitchin on ACC's troubles, on Media3 at 10.25am tomorrow on TV3) but happily, the ... More >>
Public Address 29 August 2012 - Changing News
Monday, 3 September 2012, 4:11 pm | Public Address
All newspaper editors would like to think they shape their papers in their own image, but only a few get to do so in a literal sense. A change of format should be more than a simple downsize – it’s a opportunity to reiterate and reinvent a paper’s ... More >>
Public Address - Paying for what doesn't come free anymore
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 5:18 pm | Public Address
Bernard Hickey gave me a call last week to let me know that Mediawatch had got wind of journalism.org.nz, the public-interest journalism project we'd been discussing and there would be a story on Sunday, one that might mention my name. More >>
