Russell Brown featured Alistair Thompson from Scoop Media to launch on his Media 3 show this week.
At the start of the session he made a little disclosure;
“By way of disclosure let me note that I have provided an occasional social sounding board for some of its ideas”
However I don’t think Russell was making a full disclosure…because you see Companies Office records show that Russell Brown is in fact one of 25 shareholders of Scoop Media. Read more »
Rent a quote and all round media whore Paul Brislen was trying to sell his PR services to Labour, but he had a serious SMOG.
Russell Brown and his leftie mates were discussing the lack of impact Labour is having in the GCSB story, and that yet again the Greens are the true opposition party.
Then Brislen’s over-inflated ego couldn’tthelp but get involved.
@nzben @publicaddress exactly – some big issues here to fight with. GCSB, IT sys failures, social welfare,… but they’re not in the game.
— paulbrislen (@paulbrislen) April 9, 2013
Followed up by a suggestion:
@kimmmillwood @nzben @publicaddress time to open source a Comms Plan for the party? “How to get in the news” 101.
— paulbrislen (@paulbrislen) April 9, 2013
Ouch! Read more »
Washed up Christchurch rapper crapper Scribe Scribbler shows why he’s an unsuitable role model, and an irrelevant drop-kick desperately chasing the fading spotlight on his dying dead career. The 33 year old former drug/alcohol/gambling addict that still behaves and dresses like a juvenile delinquent and who was arrested for public drunken disorder in 2011 showed everyone on social media just what a cock he is:
I see all the usual suspects are lining up to have a larrup at Jonathan Marshall again. Word has it that Russell Brown is itching to run one up him, hard.
@drbrianedwards I’m looking at this one too. It’s bizarre and alarming.
— Russell Brown (@publicaddress) March 21, 2013
Brian Edwards has jumped all over this again, like he did on the Mark and Amanda Hotchin stitch up. Back then he may well have been right.
You may recall that the Sunday Star Times responded to my challenge to them to produce either a recording of Marshall’s ‘interview’ with Mrs Hotchin or his written notes of their ‘conversation’ by sending me a menacing lawyer’s letter requiring me to cease and desist or face the consequences. I published the letter on this site.
So just what has Marshall to do with the Barker family? Well Marshall is currently ‘Investigations Editor’ for the News Limited Network in Australia. I’ll let Jonathan Holmes, host of the ABC’s excellent Media Watch, tell the story.
Seems Mr Marshall’s journalistic ethics and approach haven’t changed much since he left our fair shores: no point in letting the facts spoil a good story when it’s so easy to change the facts, just a little. Read more »
Michael Laws gives David Fisher one right in the chook:
Nice retweet from Russell Brown too.
Russell Brown tweeted:
. @judithcollinsmp rains down official hellfire on Richard Prosser. So fucked off with Shearer today. scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1302…
— Russell Brown (@publicaddress) February 12, 2013
David Shearer not only refused to say if he would reverse National’s asylum seeker policy but he was also was unable to say if he would have sacked Richard Prosser for his outrageous comments.
It is clear that he doesn’t just refuse to make the hard calls, but can’t even come out with a firm position on what should be easy calls for him. Read more »
John Drinnan has written an article about media coverage about Kim Dotcom.
He called me about this, and I note that it appears that the Herald sub-editors have probably chopped most of them out since it was mostly about their fanboi attitude to Kim Dotcom…especially David Fisher who is still running the PR lines for him and also the Herald on Sunday journalist who stood up at the Mega launch, intorduced himself and then gushed about how much “they” love Kim.
Peter Griffin is head of the Science Media Centre and is currently in the United States completing a Fulbright-Harkness Fellowship looking at the future of journalism. He says Dotcom has sometimes enjoyed unquestioning coverage.
“I was really surprised at the launch of Mega last week that the journalists didn’t ask about the moral aspects of the Mega business plan,” Griffin says. Read more »
Russell Brown has explained in sensible words why Kim DotCon is a fat thieving German fraud. I am much more base that Russell as you can see.
So it’s okay, because he’s not going to steal advertising inventory from small publishers, only large ones. Except that Google and Yahoo aren’t only publishers: they also operate advertising networks that place ads on third party sites – ads that produce revenue that many small publishers rely on.
I’ve written here before about the punishing trends in online advertising. When you read a story hailing 20% growth in digital advertising, you need to bear in mind that most of that is going to the big players – Google and Facebook – and a lesser portion to the larger established media players, such as Fairfax. Read more »
The world’s best gun salesman isn’t having a good time at the moment, First admitting that fiddling with the Second Amendment may not work, and also having armed guards protecting his daughters who attend a school which is supposedly a gun free “safe zone”.
In December, Obama told Meet The Press he was “skeptical” that placing armed guards in schools was “the only answer” to preventing future shootings like the one at the elementary school in Newtown.
“I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem,” Obama told MTP. -source
Now it looks like the anti gun outrage brigade are piping up and getting all upset over the NRA showing up Obama for what he is: an elitist hypocrite. Even NZ taxpayer funded leftie repeaters like Russell Brown are squawking along like a sick parrot running out of seed: Read more »
Finally, the government is going to start tracking down student thieves who have absconded without honouring their debt repayments on student loans.
The Government plans to hound student loan holders who have gone overseas leaving big debts behind.
Australian-based borrowers in particular will be targeted, as the Inland Revenue Department increasingly uses legal action or debt collectors to claw back money from the most reluctant payers.
Overseas-based borrowers are responsible for 80 per cent of overdue repayments, which amounted to $418 million in October. Read more »
