Public Address 18 October 2011 - Thinking Digital

Thinking Digital
12:03 Oct 18, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
I’ll be watching Internet NZ’s NetVision 2011 election debate tonight, not because I have great expectations of being enlightened by the respective party panellists, but because I am cheered by the thought of there being an actual, in-depth discussion of...
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Truths well told
9:53 Oct 18, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
In journalism, the word “story” is used without irony as a universal synonym for “news report”. Sometimes we might go further and describe a particularly good report as a “great yarn”. It is, we like to say, all about the...
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Winning the RWC: it’s complicated
17:22 Oct 17, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
The Wall Street Journal’s report describes the second Rugby World Cup semi-final as having been “marked by a series of violent collisions”, which is a bit like saying a bear’s day is marked by a series of acts of defecation...
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All Blacks v Wallabies Tensionfest
21:22 Oct 16, 2011 in Field Theory by Hadyn Green
This game is going to affect you. You may not give a sh*t about rugby but if you live in New Zealand then this game has significance. Someone you know will have an emotional investment in the outcome.You will have an emotional investment...
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The Sound of Music
11:39 Oct 14, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
I concluded last night’s Media7 with a little explanation and commentary about the music at Rugby World Cup 2011 games. If you have attended the games, or simply watched them on television, you may have wondered: who chose this music?...
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