Posts by Russell Brown
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Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to Steve Parks,
he best that we can say is that the weekly figure is probably a lot closer to 800,000 than it is to 200,000.
Correct.
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Just to note that Linda Herrick called while I was out and is keen to make a correction. So that's good.
I believe I can be forgiven for calling back in the morning, rather than on a lovely Sunday afternoon when there is a vegetable curry to be cooked, and savvy Swedish edits of funk, soul and reggae classics to be played to the neighbours.
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Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I’d bet TVNZ 7’s numbers are rising, too.
Yes, quite consistently. Because, as you note, more and more people own TVs that receive the channel straight out of the box.
I actually suspect that there was a boost from people buying new TVs to enjoy the RWC last year.
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Part of me feels bad about raising the issue, because it’s just a detail in a sympathetic story.
And Rebecca Barry Hill could be forgiven on the basis that, as I noted in the big fisking, her own editor, Shayne Currie, still hasn’t acknowledged the error, despite it being demonstrated in detail.
But there’s a principle here. The bogus lowball number had already become a de facto truth because it appeared repeatedly in the Herald.
Its further repetition there after it has been demonstrated to be baseless and inaccurate – and after the editor has been told so by TVNZ and by Media7, and has presumably read the Hard News post explaining it all – is just silly.
I’ve got no interest in any sort of feud or pissing contest with the paper, but, really, c’mon.
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AAARRRGGGH.
I know she means well, and her interview with Colin Hogg in today’s Herald is good, but Rebecca Barry Hill has ONCE AGAIN trotted out the wholly bogus “207,000 weekly viewers” number in discussing TVNZ 7.
I’m really not sure how much more I can possibly to do demonstrate that this is a completely invalid statistic that understates the actual weekly viewer number by about two thirds. Using it repeatedly does not make it true.
SERIOUSLY, WTF ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO HERE? GRAR!
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Hard News: Notes in My Pocket, in reply to LIISA,
That tune was later recycled for this better known (but not as great – to me) song:
I'm fairly sure 'The Sleepwalker' actually goes all the way back to Children's Hour, but I don't think they managed to play it live.
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Speaker: Who guards the guardians?, in reply to linger,
But the point would be not to excise without comment, but to replace or amend the offending section (sentence, paragraph, article, etc.) with an explicit acknowledgement of why material has had to be removed or amended. As in, the process has to be seen to be working.
The top newspapers -- Guardian, NYT -- already do this in different ways. It's an example of traditional media taking cues from blogs and Wikipedia. In the case of anything other than a typo, I'll usually annotate rather than simply remove an error in my post -- although I don't have the patience to annotate every editing pass.
But in blogs it's a cultural expectation rather than a rule. And cultural expectations are fairly easy to dodge.
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Hard News: European Horror Stories, in reply to giovanni tiso,
In spite of the fact that it’s a topic that I find hard to discuss without severe spikes in my blood pressure, I really enjoyed being a part of this. Thank you so much for having me on the show, Russell.
It was a pleasure. I usually jump up as soon as we stop recording, but I enjoyed spending a few minutes more talking to you and Rod.
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Just to note that the Media7 programme that prompted this post screens tonight on TVNZ 7 at 9.05pm.
I trust you'll all enjoy it.
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Speaker: Who guards the guardians?, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Thanks Graeme. There is a link to Public Address Rule One in the paragraph above, but I've added the user registration text too:
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