Public Address: 9 August 2011
Media7: A new censor—and a showdown for student media?
11:13 Aug 9, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
There are two stories to be told about the Media7 show examining tolerance for swear words in the media, in June 2009.
One is that -- because TVNZ 7 had just been added to Sky -- it was the first...
London’s Burning
9:34 Aug 9, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
I have been caught up, as a spectator, in two full-scale riots in my life: one that exploded from a huge march against
Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax, and the one in Aotea Square, whose conditions were clumsily contrived by inept...
Croucher and Green – Brewers
21:44 Aug 8, 2011 in Field Theory by Hadyn Green
In which I “make” a beer...
Fixing Auckland
15:52 Aug 7, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
It’s not that we hadn’t been told about Wynyard Quarter. The novel and somewhat exciting thing was in seeing the
apparently endless story of public agonising about Auckland’s dysfunctional relationship with its urban waterfront
actually find an end in something...
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