Hard News by Russell Brown

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Hard News: Changes and appointments

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  • Simon Grigg,

    Could be a Daily Telegraph style approach, where they up the level of photos of pretty woman on every page.

    Let's not forget the DT was the paper which not only announced the discovery of WMDs in Iraq after the invasion, but did it twice (and I'm too busy/shattered to find a link).

    And not a Murdoch in sight.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Phil Brownlee,

    I'm very curious about the nature of John Drinnan's 'sources'. It wouldn't be the first time he'd published pure speculation as if it were a story.

    Wellington • Since Sep 2008 • 25 posts Report Reply

  • Caleb D'Anvers,

    It always amuses me when Facebook suggests I 'like' John Key because 'many people who like "Save Radio NZ" also like' him. Something about a lot of New Zealanders who just really don't get it, something something ...

    London SE16 • Since Mar 2008 • 482 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    So they've debased the word "like" now, as well as the word "friend"

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Kumara Republic,

    And not a Murdoch in sight.

    Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • Kumara Republic,

    Seriously folks, we can't just sit by on the sidelines and watch our country devolve into a bastard offspring of Fountain Lakes and Airstrip One.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • Simon Grigg,

    Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black

    I have it on good authority...his..that he's innocent.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Jacqui Dunn,

    I despair of what's happening in RNZ. As the last one in the Auckland Drama Department, I was witness to the demoralizing effect of poor funding, the sinking-lid policy, and the panic created by the threat of more cuts and fewer staff. It was horrible.

    Even now I find it nightmarish to even think about when I worked there. From having been a total joy when I started, to being a place I dreaded going to, is too sad to contemplate.

    I think that without real effort from well-intentioned and well-informed people, the status of the publicly-owned - as opposed to what would be sneeringly used by private radio people: "State-owned, or Government-owned" - radio will be eroded further,until it will die a slow and lingering death; new listeners wondering why there was any fuss at all.

    Deepest, darkest Avondale… • Since Jul 2010 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • Donald Matheson,

    Hey Joe - just caught up with your comment, well, attack, on us poor souls at the university. Couldn't let it go without saying no, anti-plagiarism software's never been a substitute for marking, but it helps a lot of students work out how to write properly. I think it's fabulous. And yes, we're doing our bit teaching students about how the broadcasting world's turning upside down, well, Sky-side up. Peace and love, Donald

    Christchurch • Since Mar 2007 • 10 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    . . . anti-plagiarism software's never been a substitute for marking, but it helps a lot of students work out how to write properly. I think it's fabulous.

    Makes you wonder then, Donald, why Turnitin hasn't been deployed at TVNZ and the Herald. Personally, I found COMS at Canterbury's over-eager embrace of anti-plagiarism software to be about as fabulous as you find the decline of public broadcasting. This is the department where students never had their previous week's tutorial assignment returned to them with any degree of comment, all they received was a grade. A similarly resourced department such as Linguistics was able to meet that basic obligation to its students.

    I just find it a little rich for you to be passing judgement from the supposed heights of academia when your own department, last I looked, was affected by something of the same malaise that you deplore in the media.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

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