Who's seen the Sunday Agenda website lately?

The Executive Director advertises on the main page of the government funded programme's website that he "likes Nationals broadcasting policy"

Are they allowed to use tax payer money to promote a particular political ideology? Surely not?

Tried to…

There's hope yet – WorkChoices was John Howard's Waterloo.

Garden centre anecdata from the Dim-Post, as well as this:

Personally this is just going to make me more risk averse about changing jobs: if I move to a new employer and they suddenly run into budget problems a couple of…

So whether directly or indirectly, the laws are probably constructed purposefully around every aspect of opinion for that socio-economic group.

I don't think it's a mistake that reporters are allowed to read the lies, misinformation…

Terry was on a two week unpaid work experience. After that, he just stayed, still without a wage, and worked every hour God sent to scrape together enough money to survive while he learned the…

We need more. I think it's best not to be specific about this policy.

At last, truth in politics.

Also, it's quite obvious that every single television reporter is from the same socio-economic background. And we all know that birds of a feather flock together.

It would seem,not just reporters
Hey, I had nowhere else to put it. :)

NZ moved faster to deregulation than almost anywhere in the world. It's produced an amazing and vibrant radio sector in Auckland,…

I hope the news folk who are left are able to give us a good lead on the six phantom boats that are alleged to have headed for NZ in the past year.

This has to be the second most disgusting piece of politics I have read about this…

To be honest, I have sympathy for a lot (but not all) of them. They're the public face of some pretty tight constraints imposed by management. Which in turn relates to the way in which media is regulated (or not) in…

I recently emailed them after seeing them commit defamation…

Investigative journalist's in New Zealand seldom comes to conclusions via scientific means, they regularly state opinion as fact and, the amount of times I've seen a misleading headline or printed misinformation (which never gets rectified) is quite horrifying.

I think journo's…

Good Media 7 last night. I am organising another road trip with my students, to join the audience for the August 18 taping

Excellent. Lacey will sort you out.

and Damien's perpetual lament at how we always rag on his avocation

It'd probably help if you spelled his name right. Sayin'.

;-)

I heard some reporter on One News tonight, talking about the "masochistic organisers" of an extreme sports event in the US, a kiwi team was training for...

...and what is the preoccupation with Mel Gibson, so…

I feel another extended comment on the news considered as a serial drama (you know, recurring characters, narrative arcs, that sorta thing) coming on though...

That's why the tv media love doing crime stories. It's the same set narrative. You get some offence, film the victims (shadowed out with altered…

That was extremely lucid, Stephen.

Thank you. I figured that after Dave Ferguson's observation on our contemptuous attitude, and Damien's perpetual lament at how we always rag on his avocation, that for once I could lay off my usual comment on how crap the TV news is and apply some…

This has to be the second most disgusting piece of politics I have read about this and…

Not that I'm surprised. Just sayin'.

Also, just speculating here — people increasingly watch things on their own schedule, whether via DVD, PVR, local file, or streamed off the internet. The only reasons for anyone to check in with the broadcast media are 1) they're showing something unobtainable elsewhere 2) they're showing something…

Be interesting to see if the faster feedback loops in online channels affect corrections as stories evolve during the day. Radio NZ seem to handle…

For anyone connected to the internet we can and do get better pictures faster than TVNZ does. They really don't do in depth studies. So is the only purpose of the 6 pm news to provide news and pictures to those without internet?…

Academia, or as I like to call it "the land that wit forgot"

Too harsh, Giovanni! We enjoy a joke* as much as the next bloke/blokess--and we do have the advantage of captive audiences!

* but the joke about Catholic priests and cheerios on 7 Days last week did border…

I've noticed that a couple of times recently Pete, can't remember which channel, but I think it was sports news as well.

It looked like they'd downloaded it from youtube or similar.

The way local TV news captures YouTube video seems suboptimal — ie, it's captured from the screen, rather…

It looked like they'd downloaded it from youtube or similar.

In some academic circles, they do not refer to it as The News but rather as The Olds

Academia, or as I like to call it "the land that wit forgot".

But, despite the loss of about 15 jobs, I don't think that's necessarily the right way to look at it. The news business is changing – most obviously in that it has come loose from some long-term structural assumptions.

Adapting to changes in your industry is an on-going obligation anyway…

And if you're being asked to do more with your day (as…

We don't get sheet lightning so much in New Zealand. Just short sharp flashes of brilliance, and the occasional thunderstorm.

In Mississippi in the 60s, that used to mean lots of light didn't it? Plus some cruxiform timber and accelerant?

Don't forget it's a problem on the Kapiti Coast too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4ma24NfL4

Heat and light.

and sheets, lots of sheets...

and we all have their Live Crosses to bear...

Give us this day our daily news, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive TVNZ that…

People standing around in the dark at places

a Live Cross?

In Mississippi in the 60s, that used to mean lots of light didn't it? Plus some cruxiform timber and accelerant?

Oh god that really, really irritates me too! On the 6pm'news "a massive fire has broken out in a Penrose factory, and thirteen fire engines…

There have been recent days (prior to the World Cup, I admit) when you can get to the first ad break in the 6pm TV One bulletin without seeing a single story that came from anywhere other…