Another 10 pages devoted to books this week including a most interesting article by Sally Blundell on top New Zealand author/illustrator Gavin Bishop and the reissue of a "spring-cleaned and rescanned" edition of his marvellous picture book from 25 years ago, Mrs.McGinty and the Bizarre Plant, (Random House $20).Here is an excerpt but you are best to go out and buy the Listener because there is a lot of good reading therein.
And here, without the Listener's permission, sorry Pamela and Denis, is a paragraph from Joanne Black's The Black Page, with which I totally concur.
Once, when I was a TV reporter and had a story about a coroner's case rejected by the news editor because no one had cried on camera, I made a pact with my father that if any of our family died in unusual circumstances we would not talk to the media - unless it was in our interests to do so. Watching the Folole Muliaga story, I have to add another dictum: no politicians, please.
Right on Joanne.
2 comments:
Yes I agree Graham. When my father died we managed to avoid talking to the media, except for one incidence when my brother went on camera in order to protect someone even more vulnerable than us and I have to say he didn't make it easy for them! Grief porn indeed.
I should also add that we were very lucky that we had Geoff Walker standing in the front line for us.
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