Hard News: Changes and appointments
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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 find a link).
And not a Murdoch in sight.
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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.
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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 ...
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So they've debased the word "like" now, as well as the word "friend"
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And not a Murdoch in sight.
Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black.
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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.
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Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black
I have it on good authority...his..that he's innocent.
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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 nightmarish to even think about when I worked there. From having been a total joy when I started, to being a place I dreaded going to, is too sad to contemplate.
I think that without real effort from well-intentioned and well-informed people, the status of the publicly-owned - as opposed to what would be sneeringly used by private radio people: "State-owned, or Government-owned" - radio will be eroded further,until it will die a slow and lingering death; new listeners wondering why there was any fuss at all.
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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. And yes, we're doing our bit teaching students about how the broadcasting world's turning upside down, well, Sky-side up. Peace and love, Donald
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. . . 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 embrace of anti-plagiarism software to be about as fabulous as you find the decline of public broadcasting. This is the department where students never had their previous week's tutorial assignment returned to them with any degree of comment, all they received was a grade. A similarly resourced department such as Linguistics was able to meet that basic obligation to its students.
I just find it a little rich for you to be passing judgement from the supposed heights of academia when your own department, last I looked, was affected by something of the same malaise that you deplore in the media.
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