Borgen: The greatest political drama you’ll never see on TVNZ
What a find! The Danish political drama Borgen is quality television of the kind New Zealand no longer enoys. It follows the rise and ultimate fall of (fictional) minor-party politician Birgitte...
View ArticleGolden age of newspapers recalled in The Post, a film that could not be set...
Every journalist brought up admiring Woodward and Bernstein will be seeing The Post, though of course, this film is set (just) before Watergate, and features Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham...
View ArticleLong live the memory of Linda Brown, almost-forgotten kick-starter of the...
Schoolgirl Linda Brown walks on by Sumner Elementary in Topeka Kansas Linda Brown died on Sunday in Topeka, Kansas, aged 76, all but forgotten in her own land, let alone in far-away places like New...
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New ABC survey an insight into Twitter’s Thought Police and cancel activists
In the Roman Colosseum of old, when a gladiator fell, the watching mob often decided whether he died or lived. If the mob raised its thumbs up, he lived. Thumbs down meant he died. Twitter is the new...
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From Depression farm to the nation’s boardrooms: Peter Watson Grayburn...
Peter Grayburn as painted in 1993 by Jo LaGrouw of Lockwood From modest beginnings on a repossessed Depression-era farm, and chopping timber and shooting deer on the West Coast, Peter Grayburn hewed a...
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Fifty-six years on, Cathy Come Home speaks shockingly of today’s NZ homelessness
Without doubt, Cathy Come Home was the most dramatic BBC television play of 1966, and probably the most important of that decade, if not the half-century. Directed by Ken Loach, documentary-style with...
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Generational change in media reporting of contentious medical issues
An evolving generational change in the news media’s stance on issues of public concern is highlighted by the judgemental journalistic reaction to the court case of a desperately ill baby boy whose...
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Good luck, Mr Gorski
Friday (Moonday) was the 48th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s and Buzz Aldrin’s first walk by humanity on the moon. It was huge news in 1969. I was a small schoolboy and watched it live on television,...
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