tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post8116764628700312733..comments2024-03-19T18:07:13.020+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Right Objectives - Wrong NetworkChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42940188070059293262015-05-27T08:35:48.379+12:002015-05-27T08:35:48.379+12:00Could not agree more Chris. Why would a free marke...Could not agree more Chris. Why would a free market organisation lose money funding anybody, especially somebody who puts the warts of the free market on public display. To all the shrill voices of protest at TheStandard stop wasting your time, pick the right target. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-19039632777938223692015-05-26T19:41:37.248+12:002015-05-26T19:41:37.248+12:00An interesting post.
Both entrepreneurship and bu...An interesting post.<br /><br />Both entrepreneurship and bureaucracy have characteristic virtues and vices of their own. Both, moreover, are needed to create a civilized society and a functioning economy. <br /><br />The problem is that we tend, all to often, to get the worst of both mind-sets. <br /><br />I recall, in the early 1990s, working for a state-funded organisation that was being 'down-sized' for partial sell-off. <br /><br />A revered older colleague said to me: "We're in the hands of red in tooth and claw capitalists now!"<br /><br />And I replied:" It's actually much worse than that. We're in the hands of Stalinoid bureaucrats playing at being red in tooth and claw capitalists." <br /><br />What's the difference? Well, broadly, one lot are interested in money and the other in power (and money). <br /><br />The genuinely red in tooth and claw crowd don't normally cut up nasty unless they think they have to. And they don't kick you when you're down. There's no percentage in it and it's a waste of expensive shoe leather.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-13459375659148406172015-05-26T15:39:45.104+12:002015-05-26T15:39:45.104+12:00Charles, if you are going to crap on and on about ...Charles, if you are going to crap on and on about "handwringing" and "downtrodden" than all the other's stereotypes, you should know that it's "well-heeled". It brings your whole statement right down sorry.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80140013483239738452015-05-26T13:24:27.092+12:002015-05-26T13:24:27.092+12:00I think the politicians are afraid of TVNZ.
Why o...I think the politicians are afraid of TVNZ. <br />Why on earth didn't Labour sell it off when they created Maori TV & also set up a 'Pakeha TV' for want of a different name, then those combined State owned channels could have had all State cash for TV that currently NZonAir dishes out. We would have a Kiwi SBS of two channels, one predominately Maori and one Pakeha, sharing resources and programming.<br />And why hasn't National done it either or if they were really neo liberals, just sold off TVNZ and abolished Maori TV?<br />They are afraid to touch it I believe. Too risky.<br />Clark probably reasoned that the public would think she was setting up Labour TV as well as Maori TV and that would be a step too far. Plus a private TVNZ could turn out hostile to the left, like Fox.<br />Key perhaps reasons that TVNZ is neutral or even centre right these days so leave it be and TV3 will struggle to compete with its obviously left leaning shows like Campbell, captured as it was by the well healed left, who like a daily dose of hand ringing about the down trodden on their screens in their expensive houses, while they moan that the Tories are bastards who don't care, unlike them. Meanwhile the down trodden watch TV1 or TV2 or Sky for entertainment or a laugh. None of them would ever watch Campbell as they have nothing in common with him nor could they stomach his plummy patronising manner. He would just remind them of their alienation from the Labour Party, which has also been taken over by the same people.Charles Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-4527831601072981142015-05-26T10:29:37.028+12:002015-05-26T10:29:37.028+12:00I was a Television Licensing Inspector for a few m...I was a Television Licensing Inspector for a few months back in 1979 when I was about 20. You used to have to visit of the houses where there were arials but no record of a fee being paid.Davidnoreply@blogger.com