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Joe Wylie

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:52:34 +1200

. . . 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…

Donald Matheson

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:01:25 +1200

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.…

Jacqui Dunn

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:59:18 +1200

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…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:18:14 +1200

Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black

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

Kumara Republic

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:53:43 +1200

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.

Kumara Republic

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:27:47 +1200

And not a Murdoch in sight.

Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black.

Sacha

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:14:16 +1200

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

giovanni tiso

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:52:26 +1200

Photographic evidence of same.

Caleb D'Anvers

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:29:20 +1200

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 ...

Phil Brownlee

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:32:46 +1200

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.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:28:33 +1200

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…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:25:35 +1200

I don't mean literally.

Yep, I understood that.

But it may not mean much.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:22:33 +1200

The masthead will still be there, in some form.

But it may not mean much.
The ABC is still more or less intact as a public service broadcaster, despite John Howard's best efforts. From the moment he was elected in '96 the attacks began. Boards were stacked, and token hard-right…

George Darroch

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:48:10 +1200

God I hope not..it was the only glimmer of radio hope when I was back in NZ last month. Aside from a show here and there, the rest was either dire or such low power that you could only get it on a small strip of Ponsonsby Rd.
What happened?…

Ben Austin

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:43:00 +1200

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

Sacha

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:39:46 +1200

What does Drinnan mean by "a racier approach"? More tabloidism?

The publisher is unveiling a major makeover of the Weekend Herald tomorrow and has repositioned the daily Herald – taking a racier approach to front-page editorial values.

Ben Austin

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:17:05 +1200

I am rather worried that they will inadvertently ruin it. No previous reform of public broadcasting in NZ seems to have worked to a positive endpoint, why would this?

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:11:41 +1200

They're going to kill Radio New Zealand.

God I hope not..it was the only glimmer of radio hope when I was back in NZ last month. Aside from a show here and there, the rest was either dire or such low power that you could only get it on a…

George Darroch

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:46:02 +1200

They're going to kill Radio New Zealand.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:53:21 +1200

. . .I do care about 1) the loss of public service broadcasting culture which RNZ has and which has disappeared from TVNZ and 2) the ghettoising of TVNZ's public service media. I also don't like moves that prepare TVNZ for sale, or more of the restructuring mentality that's tossed…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:43:44 +1200

As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.

Getting TVNZ7 has been great (though I wish the paper ran listings for it) – I am enjoying __The Wonders of the Solar…

recordari

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:32:12 +1200

Is it Friday already? Anyway, for a superstitious day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-UzXIQ5vw
Have a good one.

Edit: Embedding disabled, sorry.

Andre Alessi

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:28:45 +1200

Dr Luke Goode

If that isn't the best possible name for a French cosmetic surgeon, I don't know what is.

Ross Mason

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:19:37 +1200

And the next night, Wednesday,we're recording an extended Media7 special for TVNZ's Spotlight on Science and Technology. Our theme is "communicating science", and to that end I'll be talking to Peter Griffin of the Science Media Centre, science journalist Alan Samson, Radio NZ science producer Phil Smith, Otago University's Rebecca…

uroskin

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:53:01 +1200

As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.

TVNZ 6 ratings got a boost to over 1m a month when Sky TV moved it to channel 016. TVNZ remained the same…

giovanni tiso

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:15:35 +1200

TV1&2 already have sound. It's half the problem.

Kumara Republic

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:14:35 +1200

If RNZ & TVNZ6&7 absolutely must merge, then please let it be RadioNZ with Pictures, not TV1&2 with Sound.

If we can get it right, we'll have a reincarnated NZBC. But if we get it wrong, well, Max Headroom has done the explaining for us.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:53:45 +1200

'The Politics of Comedy'

well it is good to get away from
The Comedy of Politics...

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:19:32 +1200

I will be at Media 7 on Wednesday with a vanload of my students. Might have to forewarn them about that popular Mr Haywood ;-)

I agree with Donald's comments re the ghettoising of TVNZ digital channels. As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by…

Jonty

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:18:02 +1200

Personally, I feel RadioNZ (with one or two minor exceptions) has maintained a consistent quality of news and analysis over the years, whereas TVNZ has steadily declined. If, as an earlier post suggested, this is a precursor to privatisation, then we will all be the losers. One only has to…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:07:36 +1200

Small point – the Boiler Room is no more. Sold and demolished..

Well, yes. That's why I said "whatever takes the place of the Boiler Room next year " :-)

johnno

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:19 +1200

Combining RNZ with TVNZ would leave Mediawatch with nothing to complain about.

Fraser Gardyne

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:41:40 +1200

Small point – the Boiler Room is no more. Sold and demolished...

Rich Lock

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:26 +1200

I'm looking at you, Girl Talk

You're such a hater, Russell.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:06 +1200

Friday tune, check out the lovely Max Cooper remix of Hot Chip's "I Feel Better".

Donald Matheson

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:45 +1200

I don't really care about where RNZ plus TVNZ7 is based, if that were to happen, but I do care about 1) the loss of public service broadcasting culture which RNZ has and which has disappeared from TVNZ and 2) the ghettoising of TVNZ's public service media. I also don't…

Public Address

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:45 +1200

Discussion from blog post.