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Crafar farms decision déja vu
Rubber stamped for a second time … Overseas Investment Office docs (hat tip: NZ Herald): Recommendation | Decision summary Sir Graeme Harrison on Radio NZ National’s Morning Report (before the decision was announced). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] MP3 file for non flash users Updated with audio links
OTT?
The NZ Herald gave a bucketload of real estate to their story about a grieving family’s claims that too much Coca Cola killed their mum. Don’t you think? – P Slight purple tint is intentional. Irony. (cf: ‘Purple prose’.)
Slow motion mayhem
Wow. (via Jolisa Gracewood)
Origin of the word ‘deadline’
I visited my pal and fellow publisher Roger briefly in Wellington last week. One of the many things we share in common is a quirky interest in words — old or new, interesting words and unusual derivations. Roger mentioned the word deadline which we live and die by (ahem, not literally, keep reading) in publishing […]
Romney faces a ‘Vast Left Wing Conspiracy’. OMG!
Highlights from Kevin Liptak’s CNN post: Romney cites ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ Romney was making an appearance on Breitbart TV [Comment: surprise!] and was asked by host Larry O’Connor whether he was ready to take on “the media and these nonprofits groups that are working together.” “There will be an effort by the quote vast […]
NY Times smears former collaborator Assange: ‘a nut job’
What a sleazy smear. But just the latest in a long line. His reputation has taken a deep plunge since he shook the world in 2010 by releasing, in cooperation with The New York Times and several other news organizations, masses of secret government documents, including battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most news organizations […]
Oops. What? He wants us to LISTEN to the murderous ultra-right nut job? Er, well, gee. OK.
In my experience, sometimes when one is interviewing someone in the news, particularly a LIVE interview, things can take an unexpected turn. Your subject says things that you didn’t expect. This morning, roused very early by an insistently affectionate cat (still getting over her spell in the cattery while we were at the beach last […]
Be of good cheer
Spotted this encouraging message on the way to town… Um … OK. – P
Of bloggers, dogs and fleas. The Ports of Auckland’s ‘ethical and legal breaches’
Now that the Ports of Auckland has admitted it, I haven’t got much to add to my earlier ‘Lie down with dogs get up with fleas’ comment in ‘Garner: “@whaleoil lies again.” Surprise me‘ about the Ports company leaking their personnel records to a sympathetic (at best case) blogger. Today’s Yesterday’s NZ Herald editorial: Port’s […]
The business of selling words
So, does all-encompassing MEDIA find an audience, or does the audience find what they ‘re interested in knowing more about? What do you think? From a new article ‘How to Blog’ by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing with some good stuff to say about writing, including the ‘so yesterday’ thought that maverick bloggers were always […]
The trajectory of property spruiker Dean Letfus
I hadn’t seen this until today — a remarkably positive article about investment ‘lessons’ spruiker Dean Letfus has learned from the collapse of his ‘property empire’ in April’s New Zealand Property Investor magazine. A few other bankrupt investors are mentioned to leaven the loaf, but in the main it reads like an article about cover […]
