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I do sometimes wonder about even the BBC
You're not the only one. Their TV news operation is not as awesome as it once was.
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Fun fact:
I once received from TV3, as a staff Christmas present, a blank VHS cassette. -
How do you explain TV3 news successfully challenging TVNZ without a taxpayer funded monolith behind it?
Good point. Mainly, it's by having a much smaller budget.
Still, I think it's a fair call to say that today's TVNZ news operation stands on the shoulders of what came before. It's a hell of a lot easier to preserve momentum than it is to create it.
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More a matter of not burning bridges.
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I worry that there simply aren't enough employers available for anybody to meaningfully criticise anything and still get work.
I think that's true. When I worked at 3, no one bagged TVNZ much because they knew that, sooner or later, they'd probably end up there.
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Would not spending a lot less money help them make up for that loss in viewers?
Sadly not. Advertising revenue rules.
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Stop expecting TVNZ to be the BBC, until it receives $10b in funding, rather than returning a dividend to the taxpayer.
We - well, most of us - don't. As you say, the financials preclude it.
That said, news editors choose what international stories (from partner networks) make the cut. Is there any reason why an article about the resignation of Germany's president costs more than one about a goat up a tree in Lancashire?
You as a taxpayer do not pay for the news on TVNZ.
Taxpayers built the organisation. Whatever happens now would've been impossible without that.
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See, Bart; you mess with the media mafia, this is what you get. </joke!>
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I don't think there are lessons to learn in this example about fact/credential checking. I think there are lessons to learn about who and what is news.
Well, yes, if you want to differentiate the two. To me, they are just different aspects of a failure in evaluation of contributors.
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I just groan a little when every thread on the media on PAS takes about three comments to turn into "what is wrong with TV news these days, everything about it is fucked and the people who work there are all strange idiots who vote weirdly."
Okay, I won't do that if ONe News stops referring - as they did this evening - to Shrek the sheep as an "author". Deal?
;)I take your point, but you've got to recognise that the anger is real and legitimate (and there are, frankly, bugger-all other public places to vent). </rant>
I'd comment about the whaling prank, but I've not much to say. Yeah, it wasn't especially funny, per se; yeah, it exposes Breakfast 's sloppiness in the authentication of the legitimacy of their content. Neither is much of a surprise.
Nevertheless, on balance I applaud the attempt, even if was just basically juvenile rivalry-based pranking. In the long run, the industry should actually be grateful that they occasionally get tested like this. Breakfast people will feel embarrassed by this minor event, but it'll presumably make them a bit sharper about checking things, in the near future, at least.