This is outrageous. I thought the Pat Bartlett days of protecting us from ourselves were gone. Local content is shite but hey, let’s force it on people. Print media especially the Herald is click bait. You’re right, a few good journo’s still exist but the owners of the papers are gutless. Where are the Warwick Rogers & Robyn Langwells of magazine journalism when we need them? There are so many really good meaty stories out there begging to be written. 😥
Hi Deborah - thanks for the comment. I should say that the article is very much a "first impression". Since writing it I have done a deep dive into the proposals and have written a response - 29 pages, 11,100 words and were I to do a rewrite the approach would be far more nuanced. I plan to publish a "publishable" series of articles on Media Reform based on the work I have been doing. (Hours decrypting bureauspeak and pounding my long-suffering keyboard - where would we be without coffee)
I have found that sometimes my Substack stuff gets picked up by Bryce Edwards who circulates a daily news briefing. When he does the hit rate increases.
The topic is too deep and complex for a gnat-attention span article in the Herald and I only have 600 words in the Listener.
So in lieu of Warwick and Robyn we citizen journos have to carry the burden.
And I agree - there is a lot of stuff (forgive the pun) waiting to be written.
The IPCA Report on protest law reform needs attention
I've just done a SS piece on David Seymour but also touching on the letter he wrote to Polkinghorne which contains some disturbing issues about police behaviour which should be picked up by a journo, but of course they are more interested in DS's writing of the letter. sigh
I saw that. The problem is that MSM will do anything they can to cast DS in an unfavourable light because he is ACT and therefore a member of a Govt they neither elected nor support. Sadly the implications of the letter go right over their heads.
Macbeth’s soliquoy comes to mind when one reads the interminable in length, jargon laden proposals:
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
If the reduction of the civil service’s employee numbers focuses on redundancies for all those who mangle the English language and then spew the result out in the form of biblical length discussion papers, then I’m all for
It.
Whatever happened to plain English, that is the writing or speaking of the English language in ways that are easy to understand regardless of one's familiarity with the subject matter?
Agreed. I have a copy of the Rosetta Stone on my mantle which makes more sense than the encrypted bureauspeak that emerges from Wellington (and from the mouth of the PM)
This is outrageous. I thought the Pat Bartlett days of protecting us from ourselves were gone. Local content is shite but hey, let’s force it on people. Print media especially the Herald is click bait. You’re right, a few good journo’s still exist but the owners of the papers are gutless. Where are the Warwick Rogers & Robyn Langwells of magazine journalism when we need them? There are so many really good meaty stories out there begging to be written. 😥
Hi Deborah - thanks for the comment. I should say that the article is very much a "first impression". Since writing it I have done a deep dive into the proposals and have written a response - 29 pages, 11,100 words and were I to do a rewrite the approach would be far more nuanced. I plan to publish a "publishable" series of articles on Media Reform based on the work I have been doing. (Hours decrypting bureauspeak and pounding my long-suffering keyboard - where would we be without coffee)
I have found that sometimes my Substack stuff gets picked up by Bryce Edwards who circulates a daily news briefing. When he does the hit rate increases.
The topic is too deep and complex for a gnat-attention span article in the Herald and I only have 600 words in the Listener.
So in lieu of Warwick and Robyn we citizen journos have to carry the burden.
And I agree - there is a lot of stuff (forgive the pun) waiting to be written.
The IPCA Report on protest law reform needs attention
Watch this space
I've just done a SS piece on David Seymour but also touching on the letter he wrote to Polkinghorne which contains some disturbing issues about police behaviour which should be picked up by a journo, but of course they are more interested in DS's writing of the letter. sigh
I saw that. The problem is that MSM will do anything they can to cast DS in an unfavourable light because he is ACT and therefore a member of a Govt they neither elected nor support. Sadly the implications of the letter go right over their heads.
Talk about a dereliction of duty.
Macbeth’s soliquoy comes to mind when one reads the interminable in length, jargon laden proposals:
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
If the reduction of the civil service’s employee numbers focuses on redundancies for all those who mangle the English language and then spew the result out in the form of biblical length discussion papers, then I’m all for
It.
Whatever happened to plain English, that is the writing or speaking of the English language in ways that are easy to understand regardless of one's familiarity with the subject matter?
Agreed. I have a copy of the Rosetta Stone on my mantle which makes more sense than the encrypted bureauspeak that emerges from Wellington (and from the mouth of the PM)