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If anyone is interested in our declining news services, they need look no further than .......
tonights (Monday) One network news late* edition. Sandwiched in the middle of their story on the bogus rape claimant was a brief description of the rapist who attacked a 12 y.o. in Hastings.
I couldn't freaking believe it! At first I thought it was a technical error but no, they obviously didn't have enough time to run the Hastings story so they just did a jumpcut to the Hastings rapist and then continued with the bogus rape claimant.
Gee, I hope no-one gets confused and thinks the Hastings 12 y.o. is also making it up.
VERY SLOPPY TVNZ! (Yes, I'm shouting. Do you think they're listening?)* I didn't see the 6pm bulletin so I don't know if they ran the same item in that bulletin.
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If anyone is interested in our declining news services, they need look no further than the US to be reassured. (Where's that sarcasm emoticon?)
New(ish) CBS News Anchor Katie Couric does a first-person 'personal notebook' where she shares some folksy stuff to charm middle America. Unfortunately she doesn't actually write it herself, and one of her minions plagiarised a piece on 'I remember my first library card'. She has also just reserrected the Obama/Medrassa lie; as if she was unaware that it had been thoroughly repudiated.
If you want more info then click here and scroll thru to the various stories on Couric.
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I read this stupid article in the SMH about how Australia wasn't buying suitably sophisticated jetfighters to deal with Future Imaginary Enemies.
The arms industry is predicated on this tennet. Luckily the NZ Govt has never succumbed and bought lemons for our defence forces.
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Is Bradford as violent a person as she is because she received the odd smack as a child or would she be worse if she never received a smack as all?
Arrrr, 'twas the coppers that made her that way. All them billy clubs on her noggin, when all she was tryin' was a peaceful protest. Arrrr.
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"...If they needed to fly to Los Angeles to do a piece to camera in front of a building, it seemed, they just did it."
Any particular story in mind?
Yes, but I damned if I can remember what it was. I just recall sitting in front of the TV wondering how much that piece to camera cost.RB's response implies there was only 'one' occassion. There were so many it's no wonder he (and I) can't recall specifics. Mr Grigg has detailed some instances.
In a similar vein, I have often wondered what the point of 'crossing live' to a reporter at Auckland's viaduct has to do with a Wellington story. Ditto with health reporters outside an Auckland hospital to discuss a ChCh hospital issue. If they just want back ground wallpaper can't they use a blue screen? Less bad (because I presume its cheaper) is when they cross live to a reporter who is (for those that know) clearly standing on the TVNZ balcony with 'the city' behind him/her.
I was dismayed to learn over the weekend that Susan is apparently returning to TVNZ.
This will not happen, for reasons that can't be discussed. If she does get the job I will drop this psuedenum. (BTW - how can I change it? It seemed funny at the time I registered but now I just look like I have no self esteem)
I do think this is (and possibly quite rightly the only way to do it) a plan to change the culture (and matching salaries) before introducing the 24 Hr News Channel. As RB noted earlier, I think they'll start rehiring late in the year, at a new rate. Nothing like unemployment to make ournos see sense. TV3 rates will be the benchmark -
Alanis [Morrisette's] version of My Hump rules!
I don't know if it's a testament to Alanis' performance skill or the power of music television BUT I was halfway thru the You Tube clip (page 7) when my 5 y.o. daughter asked "Is the Crazy Frog going to be next?"
Relevance you ask? Well, the Xmas before last I videotaped the Top 40 so she could see the Crazy Frog. The clip before it was Black Eyed Peas 'My Humps'. My daughter made me replay Crazy Frog a dozen times which invariably meant a rewind back to 'My Humps'. My daughter has just watched 20 seconds of the Alanis' 'My Humps' and presumed Crazy Frog must be next.
Which is why Music TV (unsupervised) is bad for our children! (Unless you want your sons to be muthafunking gangsta wannabees and your daughters to be booty shakin' hoes)
FYI - those replays of Crazy Frog were enough to traumatise my daughter. She now runs screaming if anyone plays it (or any song she deems similar ie George FM)
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Sunday began as a fit of hubris on the part of a former new chief, Heaton Dyer
Interesting! I think it also had something to do with TV3 getting the rights to both 60 Minutes and 20/20. TVNZ claimed not to care then and said their own Sunday show would allow them to tell their own 'NZ Stories'.
Of course this PR/Propaganda only lasted until the next buying round where they promptly gazzumped TV3 to buy 20/20. But the version we subsequently saw on TV2 was way more tabloid than the original US version of 20/20. It seems TVNZ just bought the brand and would throw in any old twaddle onto 20/20 - much of it from the UK tabloids ("My breast implant nightmare").
What infuriates me most about TV2's 20/20 is their "Internet funny" segment we they show some wacky clip lifted off YouTube. If it's an original content clip then okay (maybe) but the ignorami at TVNZ were showing grainy downloads of actual TV comedy skit shows. Why not ask the original show for a clip? Oh yes, then they might have to pay for it ...
Holmes was the harbinger of the rot, that grandstanding merchant of emotional pornography. He was great for ratings, but bugger-all else.
I agree with the first part but not so much the second. Still, I wince everytime I see him with that smarmy grin on the Dancing With The Stars promo. I also worry he'll kill himself if knocked out in the early rounds - his ego won't survive it.
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"There were reporters crying. It's incredibly unsettling....[NZ Herald]
It's unsettling to think of reporters crying. How can we believe they're giving us the hard facts if they're really such softies at heart? But I digress ...
So you were present when the Private Equity Groups scoped out Radio Live? Did they wear Black Hats? Were their cold dead eyes covered by sunglasses?
Seriously 'Private Equity' companies are a blight on our economy - they rarely add value for anyone but themselves. They will typically buy a company, strip assets or downsize staff in order to gain 'efficencies', and then once the bottom line has been 'improved' the company is on-sold or floated on the stock exchange at a great profit. Feltex is a good example of what can happen.
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Hmmmm, how did that old story go?
"I was travelling on the train to Bombay and an old Indian man was ripping up a sheet and throwing the pieces one by one out the window. I asked him what he was doing and he smiled and said 'It's to stop elephants sitting on the track'. When I replied that there were no elephants sitting on the track he just smiled again and said 'I know - see how well this works?'
And, as someone else noted this week in a letter to the NZ Herald: if climatologists are so confident in predicting negative climate change in 50 years time, how come they couldn't get the forecast right for Easter Weekend?
8 years ago we were told planes would be dropping out of the sky when the Millennium Bug hit ...
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I am happy to tolerate people who believe stupid things
Hey hey hey! This is about Falun Gong ... let's not drag in Scient0l0gy or we'll all be sued!