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Walk out. Yeah.
Apropos our discussion of Paul Henry’s ‘No, I’m not giving you an interview’, watch how WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange warned a CNN reporter he wasn’t prepared to talk about his personal legal issues as part of an interview about the latest tranche of military leaks… and walk out he did. Fair enough too, in my opinion. […]
Words that may not be spoken
Last week I wrote to the local Howick & Pakuranga Times about a long-running local issue of importance to me and my family. I was intrigued by some of the deletions and alterations in the resulting published Letter to the editor. See what you think: My family and I fully support the moves to rebuild the […]
Ain’t this the truth?
An old saying and a true one … but we often learn this the hard way. (Spotted in an Italian warehouse/cafe in Wellington this afternoon.)
Homemade space program
Nice project by Luke Geissbühler and son Max, as reported by NY Mag … from my ‘reading’ of the video, I think the iPhone was used to track his ‘space capsule’, but the video itself was taken with a different (unspecified) bit of kit — not the iPhone, despite the report. In a burst of science-is-fun […]
‘No comment’ with reasons = ‘an interview’? Nope.
So the Sunday Star Times rang Paul Henry for an interview. He said ‘No, sorry, won’t/can’t talk’ (meaning on the record) or words to that effect and was courteous enough to have a brief chat with the journo… who later transcribed the discussion, and the paper published it. THIS sort of behaviour, in my opinion, […]
A sharp foil is a wonderful thing
I am reading and SO enjoying Your Movie Sucks, a collection of reviews by Roger Ebert. My goodness, he’s got the skills. Wonderful. A review of the collection over at Blogcritics includes this line: Like most critics, these negative reviews are an outlet for the creative side of Ebert’s writing to shine. That’s well said. Yes, […]
Bloomberg ‘Game Changers’ video retrospective on Steve Jobs
Well worth watching… Bloomberg Game Changers — http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63722844/ 48 minutes — 227 MB of worthwhile bandwidth. (Thanks to TUAW.)
Interview with John Sculley about the genius of Steve Jobs
This transcript of a recent interview by Leander Kahney with former Apple Computer CEO John Scully about founder and rescuer of Apple Steve Jobs is fascinating, if you care. Just one clip (seriously, go and read it): Sculley: It’s okay to be driven a little crazy by someone who is so consistently right. What I’ve […]
Another good graphic #4
This works as a headline, as far as I’m concerned. Reproduced here as part of my occasional series about graphics that communicate. I saw a comment about a pile of a billion (or was it a trillion?) dollars stretching to the moon and back. This pic helps visualise a pile of money. Well done Huffington […]
Well said, and good on you for speaking up
Ben Gracewood, explaining why he took a stand and quit his Breakfast TV gig rather than ‘condone racism’: So when I read this morning that a Breakfast presenter [Paul Henry] has made yet another trolling statement (this time barely veiled racism), I decided I’ve had enough. Previously I’ve had to be circumspect about my responses […]
There’s sometimes a price for HOW you state your opinions
No, actually, I’m not talking about Paul Henry. Over the weekend CNN anchor host Rick Sanchez was fired after a misguided book promo/radio show appearance turned into a rant where he accused The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart of being a ‘bigot’ towards Hispanics, of working with the ‘north east liberal elite’ to keep ‘people like Rick’ […]
Being Paul Henry
What a tosser. Paul Henry does not represent the New Zealand I want to live in, or see reflected on TV. About our Governor General, Henry the supposed ‘royalist’ asked the Prime Minister this morning “Is he even a New Zealander?” ”Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a […]
Being Glenn Beck
There’s a REALLY interesting profile on Glenn Beck in the NY Times magazine. Totally worth reading. – P
