Ethical Martini

Ethical Martini I have finally decided to make the move. Ethical Martini will no longer be updated at Blogspot. If you have linked to this site, pls alter your code to point to Ethical Martini...

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The couple at the centre of a European missing persons case have won a substantial libel suit against two leading British newspapers. Kate and Gerry McCann, both doctors, are the parents of Mad...

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I don't really have anything of substance to add, but this spray from Greg Palast on the hypocrisy in Washington and New York over the Spitzer affair is worth linking too just for the humour in t...

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I thought I'd keep readers up-to-date with the Blue Chip story from last week. I had a go at the Herald on Sunday for its front page piece about businessman Mark Bryers and his visits to an Auckl...

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It seems that 24 hours is a lifetime in the blogosphere. Just yesterday I was defending the right to privacy for sex workers caught up in scandals and media stories. Now I find myself being amaz...

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Good things come in threes...but not it seems if you're a sex worker caught up in a high profile media broo-ha-ha. I recently mentioned a Herald on Sunday story that outed an Auckland businessman...

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A big "WELL DONE" to my colleague, Susan Boyd-Bell, who has just completed her Masters thesis and is graduating this week from AUT. I have posted the abstract here and you can get a downloadable ...

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This is just a chuckle piece. The infamous Hollywood gossip-monger, Perez Hilton is now the subject of some interesting blogonews himself. Apparently he has been IMing with Jonathon Jaxson an...

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An interesting read over my breakfast martini this fine Auckland Sunday. The Herald on Sunday ran a splash (admittedly below the 'fold') about a wealthy Aucklander who likes his social life a lit...

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So another Barak Obama staffer has fallen on her perfumed sword. This time because of comments in an interview with a British journalist about Hilary Clinton. It's not the truth of Samantha Powe...

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A friend, Helen M, sent me this link to a recent piece in the US online publication, PR Weekly , it talks about how journalism and journalism education are changing in response to the convergence...

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Here in New Zealand all journalism schools require students to be proficient in T-line Shorthand at around 60-80 wpm before they can graduate. > The shorthand requirement is mandated by ...

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> perhaps we can all go get one after graduation next friday as we > will be qualified journos! > - bex Hey, bex, xclnt idea to go for a drink. In our graduation drag? But, I ...

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One of the things I love about teaching is learning from my students. Hat tip to Quinn for telling me about The Journalist. I suppose a purist would scoff, but it is a distant relative of the Ma...

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I was intrigued by the reference to a cocktail called a Crack Baby in recent stories about Harry Hotpants, the valiant prince of Afghanistan and friend of Terry Taleban. The Crack Baby is a drin...

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Now that the giddy "Oh my gosh!" pretend outrage has cooled a little I'd like to add my ten Kiwi cents to the Harry-Embargo-Imbroglio (HEI). It seems that the English tosser who happens to be 3...

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How to Stop the Fiji Regime in its Tracks when it comes for Journalists By Dr Mark Hayes, a Brisbane-based media and journalism educator who knows the media situation in Fiji very well indeed. --...

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Background note: For anyone not familiar with this story, the history can be found here . Briefly around 96 important military medals were stolen from the Waiouru army museum, including a Victori...

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I came across this at Andrew Keen's The Great Seduction . I sometimes disagree with Andrew but I think his analysis of web-capitalism (summed up here) is pretty accurate: > For all the glib�...

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The Brisbane Courier-Mail is reporting that the ABC site at Toowong, which has been abandoned for the past year or more, might be contaminated with the pesticide Dieldrin. A number of female st...

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I'm watching with interest the American presidential primaries. I can't make up my mind about Obama and/or Clinton. I'm inclined to argue that a vote for Barak Obama is more of a threat to the US...

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I was checking emails while on holidays in Bateau Bay on the NSW central coast. My brother and I had just come back from swimming at Shelley Beach with my niece and her friend. A message from Nev...

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Murder victim opened her heart on Facebook - Sunday Star-Times - Sunday Star-Times In light of recent posts about Facebook and other social networking sites, I thought it time to give a brief o...

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With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian This is a rather scathing and quite scary attack on Facebook. The argument t...

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SaveOurSBS Living in New Zealand I am familiar with the impact of commercialising public broadcasters. Our national TV network, TVNZ, is partially funded by government, but must also accept adve...

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