tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post431909091680033749..comments2023-11-13T16:30:40.096+13:00Comments on Editing the Herald: Sweating the small stuffJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661495023149576052noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-83847940496686749662009-04-18T01:33:00.000+12:002009-04-18T01:33:00.000+12:00if you had standards i'd ask you to uphold them. a...if you had standards i'd ask you to uphold them. as it is, picking up on the use of a frequent and accepted nickname as some great crime against journalism highlights your tendency to clutch at a big fuck-off straw.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-43769969320307258212009-04-17T12:09:00.000+12:002009-04-17T12:09:00.000+12:00Let me nip this in the bud here by confirming that...Let me nip this in the bud here by confirming that yes, indeed, I am a pedant who has a distaste for being called a Kiwi. <br /><br />When I read the headline, my initial reaction was "What the hell is a kiwi doing in Bali?"<br /><br />Sorry if no one else thought that, you humourless bastards!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12661495023149576052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-78430090315686371302009-04-17T08:53:00.000+12:002009-04-17T08:53:00.000+12:00So anything with 'attack' and 'New York' signifies...<I>So anything with 'attack' and 'New York' signifies the rapture, does it?</I>Yes. <br /><br />Wait, no. <br /><br />What?gazzajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269126625443588798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-57682164428498227192009-04-16T13:11:00.000+12:002009-04-16T13:11:00.000+12:00So anything with 'attack' and 'New York' signifies...So anything with 'attack' and 'New York' signifies the rapture, does it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-26116269923793406032009-04-16T12:57:00.000+12:002009-04-16T12:57:00.000+12:00The headline is great because when you use the wor...The headline is great because when you use the words "attack" and "Bali" in the same sentence it sounds like a terrorist attack. Which is a sensationalist and deliberately misleading way to describe a bar fight.<br /><br />Personally I would've gone with "Kiwi Death Toll From Bali Attack Rises"gazzajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269126625443588798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-68402748058517933902009-04-16T12:46:00.000+12:002009-04-16T12:46:00.000+12:00Reheating the whole 'murder is not news' schism, I...Reheating the whole 'murder is not news' schism, I think you boys should head over to Fiji:<br /><br />In a satirical jibe at stringent censorship imposed by Fiji's military government, the Daily Post newspaper has been filling the space <br />with some no news.<br /><br />Headlines in Wednesday's edition included ``Man gets on bus'' over an item reading: ``In what is believed to be the first reported incident of its kind, a man got on a bus yesterday. 'It was easy,' he said. 'I just lifted one leg up and then the other and I was on.'''<br /><br />Another headed ``Breakfast as usual'' began: ``It was break fast as usual for the staff <br />of this newspaper. 'I had leftover roti from <br />last night,' senior re porter Manueli told his <br />colleague yesterday morning.<br /><br />A third story began, ``Paint has apparently dried on his old couch, Max reports. Given the <br />job of painting the couch, Max was excited at the prospect of the paint drying. But when asked how it dried, he was nonplussed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-49469875650978391042009-04-16T12:14:00.000+12:002009-04-16T12:14:00.000+12:00I see. Pedantry of the day.I see. Pedantry of the day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-14914482495941441712009-04-15T22:43:00.000+12:002009-04-15T22:43:00.000+12:00A Kiwi is a bird.A Kiwi is a bird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-50065210663061424582009-04-15T15:27:00.000+12:002009-04-15T15:27:00.000+12:00Why is that headline misleading?
He was kiwi, he ...Why is that headline misleading?<br /><br />He was kiwi, he was attacked with a bottle, he died soon after.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139464357237074361.post-42948451607347797232009-04-14T17:25:00.000+12:002009-04-14T17:25:00.000+12:00re: Surveywatch, the survey results are actually a...re: Surveywatch, the survey results are actually a little more interesting than the Herald's reporting of it. There's an aspect of "no shit, Sherlock" to the "city apartment dwellers tend to work in the city", thing, but the percentage does make a difference. If it were 60%, the implications for public transport planning, walking requirements & so forth would be rather different than if it were 90%. Besides, there are reasons to live in the city other than just being close to work: personally, if I had to work in the suburbs I'd still rather commute out of the CBD than live in the suburbs and walk to work.<br /><br />It's a pity that neither the Herald or DomPost managed to add any value to the actual survey (http://www.wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=3502, which both online papers obviously found too hard to link to), other than a single nterview and debatable infographics in the latter. One thing that would have been interesting would have been to do a quick cross-check between the demographics of the respondents and the corresponding census figures. That would have revealed that younger people were much less likely to respond: only a third of respondents were under 35, compared to two-thirds of the inner-city population at the 2006 Census. Thus, all the stats about income, apartment size, car ownership and so forth should be adjusted downwards.<br /><br />Oh, and at least the Herald skirted controversy by referring to "European" people: Stuff's comments mostly consist of people getting offended at being called "Pakeha" or making jokes about Wellington being small and windy. Jebus wept.Tomnoreply@blogger.com