Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground: an alternative view

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Lou Reed has died, and for the next few days the media will be awash with dribbling, fawning tributes. Most of them will probably be written...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Millmow catches up with Bill Skelton

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Some pretty dire rubbish appears on the sports pages, but I've been enjoying the "Where are they now?" series in the Dominion ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Scandal, smear and spin - the new normal

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , October 23.) As I write this, a lot of questions remain unanswered about ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Another heroically barmy cause

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Whenever Radio New Zealand journalist Jeremy Rose comes on air, I mentally prepare for a detour into a parallel universe - a left-wing la-la...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Are there rorts we don't know about?

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(First published in The Dominion Post , October 18.) THERE HAS long been a nagging suspicion that taxpayer-supported Maori organisations...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Why are the media doing Jock Paget's PR?

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When word got out that Belarusian shot-putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk was being investigated for possible steroid use following her triumph at the...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

All in meetings?

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How richly ironic, and how drearily predictable, that when Radio New Zealand sought comment from the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authorit...