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As for Mark Jennings:
"TVNZ just had the same stuff repeated, repeated, repeated."
In response to this, I guess.
20:45 Mike McRoberts:
@nztv @rachsmalley actually what it reflects is a poor decision by 3 not to go with continuous coverage throughout the day. No lead in.
21:12 Rachel Smalley:
@MrMikeMcRoberts @nztv Agreed. Rolling coverage would have most certainly given us a strong lead-in. You're all doing a great job tho.
21:22 Throng:
@MrMikeMcRoberts totally gutting when you see all the effort you and @johnjcampbell put in down there.
21:35 Mike McRoberts:
@nztv thanks for that
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I just hope that those in charge of the cleanup are getting some seriously professional advice on how best to deal with this.
I shudder to think just when the last of a hundred thousand damaged buildings will be repaired.
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Rod Oram on the SFC bailout.
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Sockburn
Named after an historic incident where someone once burned a sock?
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Seriously, does any Christchurch PASer not have a damaged chimney?
Based on the small sample of reports here so far, I'm guessing that the bill will outstrip $2b.
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Weird that Johns Carter and Key were both still* saying that it was a 7.4 shock followed by a 7.1 aftershock at about noon yesterday, many hours after all media had issued the revised measurement.
*The same clips were being shown much later in the afternoon, but I'm just talking about the initial live media conferences.
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Wasn't the whole of "The Nation" devoted to it? Not that I watched it all, but it recorded and skipping through it it certainly seemed that way.
You're quite right, Graeme. I was wrong on that count and was logging on now to correct that. Don't know why I failed to remember that I watched some of that, but anyway... I was flicking back and forth before that and was pretty disappointed and surprised to see nothing from TV3 until 11am, and nothing between "The Nation" and six o'clock.
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Best wishes to everyone affected. Glad to hear that casualties have been so remarkably minimal and hope that the things get sorted quickly for everyone. Thoughts are with you.
A few random thoughts on the media coverage:One News: 7/10
Their "rolling coverage" (get it?) as been running non-stop for at least the last 11 hours. Pretty good coverage, overall. Not too much repetition, considering the mammoth size of the broadcast and the complete lack of warning. Fairly decent collection of interviews; could have had a bit more focus on Civil Defence info for locals. Didn't have any chopper footage till noon but, overall, a fairly good job.
Reporter Joy Reid was a wee bit breathless (I would have been too!) but for a young reporter did a good job as One News' main on-the-spot person throughout a very long and unusual shift.
Points off for moronic One News reporters taking people back inside their half-demolished homes (via a gaping hole in the wall) without so much as a helmet, and for interviewing residents two or three metres from their wrecked two-storey abode (again, sans helmet) during aftershocks. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Another point off for being advised by Vodaphone to refrain from soliciting amateur photos and video due to the strain on the phone system, and yet not mentioning this to viewers even once in the many hours that I watched.
Half a point off for Miriama Kamo saying "more pictures just in..." about every ten minutes between 2 & 3pm whilst continuing to show exactly the same clips we'd been seeing for at least the previous two hours. And Simon Dallow could really dial back the "utter devastation" a notch.
3 News: DNQWTF, 3? No coverage until 6pm, except for a brief update at 11-ish (and probably something at 12 too, but I was out then). Weak. (A decent job from Campbell with short interviews during the news @ 6, but too little too late).
That is all.
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I have an iPod Classic. I load songs onto it via Winamp, create playlists via Winamp, add album art via Winamp. Am I crazy in the coconut?
Crazy like a fox.
Loading to iPod with Winamp instead of iTunes?? That's just blown my mind; will investigate further.
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Erm, Winamp.
Me too; 11 years and counting, but I meant for your iPod, which I presume from the phrase:
poof, there goes my 160GB of music
that you have one of. Or am I entirely mistaken?
I hate iTunes largely for that reason (and it did happen); switched to Rockbox, but am not totally thrilled with that either.