tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post6021256221943530142..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: The show can't go onGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-59288841538842628842015-04-15T20:01:48.110+12:002015-04-15T20:01:48.110+12:00The real question to be asked is, what on earth ha...The real question to be asked is, what on earth has happened to our state broadcaster? Its a total disgrace. Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07693795352088768384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-72755963359336642342015-04-15T12:25:12.919+12:002015-04-15T12:25:12.919+12:00also... http://mananews.co.nz/wp/?p=4397
also... http://mananews.co.nz/wp/?p=4397<br />B'art Hommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247026300926791216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-80522862587384231202015-04-15T12:21:15.881+12:002015-04-15T12:21:15.881+12:00I also tagged Helen Kelly - (she is in the Tom Hun...I also tagged Helen Kelly - (she is in the Tom Hunt story :-) saying what I said in my FB post... at either extreme zero hours or work till you cut your hand off regimes are how employment relations are now in NZ... from the other end of the employment law spectrum to Campbell I did something about it... the incident happend thurs night, I heard the news from an insider friend friday night - was B'art Hommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247026300926791216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-40710721992395000662015-04-15T12:03:05.443+12:002015-04-15T12:03:05.443+12:00Sorry, it's just that the link to the Tom Hunt...Sorry, it's just that the link to the Tom Hunt story was already in the status when I saw it - did you amend it later? Anyway, glad the story got the publicity it deserved, still not terribly sure about the connection to Campbell Live but it will come to me. Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-61814754711034548942015-04-15T11:58:48.940+12:002015-04-15T11:58:48.940+12:00How would you know that? Were you texting/ receivi...How would you know that? Were you texting/ receiving phone calls from Tom Hunt in response to me tagging him? oh no that was me! <br /><br />The point is - I made the effort to not be silenced by my own vested interests and publicly called the employment laws of the Key Government to account... <br /><br />Now Peter Jackson's employment mechanics are under very serious investigation... B'art Hommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247026300926791216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-6912461426795407292015-04-14T18:52:06.099+12:002015-04-14T18:52:06.099+12:00Your Facebook post didn't "lead to" ...Your Facebook post didn't "lead to" the front page. I'm not very sure what point you're making here. Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-52293213157707829022015-04-14T17:22:30.270+12:002015-04-14T17:22:30.270+12:00It is interesting that on Saturday I posted this h...It is interesting that on Saturday I posted this https://www.facebook.com/barry.thomas.313924/posts/10153744363627166?notif_t=like and tagged a couple of media friends... incl. you Giovanni... which led to this front page in the dom post... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/67700390/monster-machine-claims-workers-thumb, worksafe NZ investigation et al... <br /><br />and as a weird turnup... It B'art Hommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247026300926791216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42482546056484026352015-04-14T13:21:13.511+12:002015-04-14T13:21:13.511+12:00The situation we are now in is absolutely the resu...The situation we are now in is absolutely the result of neoliberal ideology. Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble engineered the situation we are in today, and unfortunately Helen Clark's Labour government took far too long and did far too little to redress the situation. The charter and TVNZ7 were easily dispensed with when the Nats got back into power.<br />I wistfully think about the 1980s atAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-54729854831320806802015-04-14T12:57:59.616+12:002015-04-14T12:57:59.616+12:00It's a complex issue but on the whole the rest...It's a complex issue but on the whole the restraints on public criticism in most professions are much stricter than back home, and combined with the smaller population - thus smaller and weaker civil society associations - it makes for a country in which it can be next to impossible to speak out on many issues. Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-49713627088726482752015-04-14T12:48:17.546+12:002015-04-14T12:48:17.546+12:00I am seeing the same patterns as in my old country...I am seeing the same patterns as in my old country, but there I knew it was done for personal interest, for saving ones ass from jail and standard corruption. What I don't understand in NZ is if this is really done just for neoliberal ideology. Of course there's something more than that, but isn't in that case all of society omertosa?Gianfranconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-77751561560971266212015-04-14T10:33:16.542+12:002015-04-14T10:33:16.542+12:00I struggle to follow the debate on how much furthe...<i>I struggle to follow the debate on how much further the commercial model might take us, or credit the suggestion – straight out of Peter Pan – that Campbell Live will not be cancelled so long as we all promise to watch it more often. We won’t be saved by being better consumers, nor would things be significantly better if our business leaders were less short-sighted and awful.</i><br /><br />Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.com