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Werewolf Edition #29 – Waiting For The Man
Werewolf Edition #29 – Waiting For The Man
From Werewolf Editor Gordon Campbell
http://werewolf.co.nz/Enter the "Wolf"
Hi and welcome to the 29th issue of Werewolf. Our cover story this month features an extensive interview with new-ish Labour leader David Shearer, who took this opportunity to speak his mind, and plainly, one thing on his mind is a desire not to tread on the toes of his caucus colleagues. (Shooting from the hip will never be Shearer’s most pressing problem.) Yet given the rate at which the current government is trashing its mandate, the public could well begin to warm to Shearer’s considered and considerate voice of moderation
Elsewhere in this issue we consider the fragile state of our tertiary institutions as funding dries up and research is directed to the service of business. In her piece on polling, Alison McCulloch examines how a credulous and thinly stretched journalism will routinely extend media coverage to organisations promoting their own ( sometimes dubious) polling as newsworthy items in their own right. Anne Russell explores the media’s role in promoting what are (literally) unreal images of women in ways damaging to women’s health and sense of self worth.
In this month’s movie essay. Philip Matthews analyses Pedro Almodovar’s new film The Skin I Live In in which the Spanish director gives his own idiosyncratic spin to the themes of sex, obsession, guilt and second chances that Alfred Hitchcock masterfully explored in Vertigo. The children’s book column this month deals with the wildly popular trilogy for young adults – The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins – and the film of the first book is due in movie theatres later this month. Satirist Lyndon Hood allows himself to be used as a platform this month for the secret diary of Moonbeam, the nation’s First Cat, who has something else than unconditional love on its dark and murderous mind.
In our occasional sports column Talking Sport, Wellington writer Lamont Russell considers whether the Spanish cycling champion Alberto Contador received fair treatment at the hands of the anti-drug sporting authorities. In our music column The Complicatist this month, the second album by the buzz band Sleigh Bells gets a thumbs up, and Cartoon Alley this month features new work by the duo of Mike Brown and Mat Tait, and also by Brent Willis.
Thanks to Alastair Thompson for helping me post this online. Werewolf is a thank you to Scoop readers and is intended as an outlet for local writers and artists. If you want to be involved, contact me at gordon@scoop.co.nz. If you want to be involved, contact me at gordon@scoop.co.nz and let's talk story ideas.
Gordon Campbell
Editor, Werewolf.
The contents of this edition are:
FEATURES:
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Waiting For The
Man
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/waiting-for-the-man/
An interview with new Labour leader, David
Shearer
by Gordon Campbell
Lies, Damn Lies and Opinion
Polls
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/lies-damn-lies-and-opinion-polls/
Are journalists prone to being dazzled by
numbers?
by Alison McCulloch
Feeling Bad About
Ourselves
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/feeling-bad-about-ourselves/
What should we do about the promotion of
unreal image of women ?
by Anne Russell
Marketing the
Mind
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/marketing-the-mind/
How the tertiary sector in New Zealand is
being hi-jacked into the service of commerce
by Gordon
Campbell
Pedro Does
Vertigo
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/pedro-does-vertigo/
Pedro Almodovar’s fresh take on the
Hitchcock classic about sex, obsession and second
chances
by Philip
Matthews
COLUMNS:
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From The Hood : Moonbeam
Dreams of Murder
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/from-the-hood-moonbeam-dreams-of-murder/
Feline fantasies of fame fortune and bloody
vengence
by Lyndon Hood
Classics : The Hunger Games
(2008)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/classics-the-hunger-games-2008/
When life is a war game, you need friends to
survive
by Gordon Campbell
Talking Sport : The Trashing
of Alberto Contador
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/talking-sport-the-trashing-of-alberto-contador/
Nothing that resembles natural justice was
meted out to the champion Spanish cyclist
by Lamont
Russell
The Complicatist : Sleigh
Bells
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/the-complicatist-sleigh-bells/
Even buzz bands make only tiny little
buzzes
by Gordon Campbell
Mat Tait is a South Island
based cartoonist and illustrator. Mike
Brown lives in Wellington and is currently writing
a PhD thesis on New Zealand vernacular musics.
by Mike
Brown & Mat Tait
Cartoon Alley : Brent
Willis
http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/03/cartoon-alley-brent-willis/
Brent Willis currently lives in Lyall Bay,
Wellington and has been making underground self-published
comics since the mid 1990s.
by Brent Willis
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