3 Nov 2014

The Panel with Wena Harawira and Barry Corbett (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:35 pm on 3 November 2014

Topics - Dejan Lazic is demanding that a bad concert review be removed from Google under the European Union's 'right to be forgotten' online legislation. It's Lazic versus the Washington Post at the moment. Critic Anne Midgette reviewed him playing Chopin and Schubert in a pretty mild review really. Quote - "He's a pianist of prodigious gifts, and he's too good not to do better, to move beyond the music's challenges and into the realm of its soul." It is announced that sheep riding at all NZ Rodeo events is stopped. The Ministry for Primary Industry considers it to be cruel to sheep. It looks like it'll take a long time to determine the cause of the crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo. "It's a real setback to the idea that lots of people are going to be taking joyrides into the fringes of outer space any time soon," says John Logsdon, the former space policy director at George Washington University.