Posts by chris
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
3 News hit its lowest ratings in four years on Sunday – just 124,000 viewers compared to 590,000 sets of eyeballs glued to the government channel
What struck me most about this is that this appears to be a battle for less than 20% of the population. Though the photo and caption is fairly pointed:
Hilary Barry and Mike McRoberts present a “dynamic” front for 3 News.
Despite the the fact that on either channel “the news” only takes up about half the show, I’m not sure about anyone else’s reference point but having spent an unreasonable period in a few countries where at least 1/3 of any nightly news hour isn’t devoted to the triviality that is sport because that would be ludicrous I’m genuinely impressed that the media and its commentators are able to accord the issue this much gravitas.
http://thestandard.org.nz/gower-and-the-3-news-ratings-slump/
Soaps.
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I appreciated the depth in this Emma but the concluding sentence felt like a segue into a piece investigating the effects of drug prohibition on those in trauma inducing professions.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to chris,
Oops, I forgot the link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/73087380/gossip-columns-masquerading-as-respectable-political-commentary
…Key and National reckon they have got Little pegged as “angry Andy” and Key is adept at deflecting Little’s punches […] Red Peak flag debacle […] Crying wolf over secret agendas just confuses voters […] Hands up who knows […] Annette King is doing a great job […] he needs to promote Ardern […] Tim Groser whose diplomatic skills are […] ? […] Judith “Crusher” Collins […] wilder rumours even has it that he and Key had a pact […]
TLDR?
The Government will be changed once media reporting of Government incompetency reaches critical mass, until then the media look content to go safari and give Rachel Glucina a serious run for her money.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Yeah I think you’ll find that might also have been Labour’s fault. Meanwhile a compelling sequence of words:
John Key’s time on the international stage, meanwhile, has sucked the oxygen out of domestic politics, particularly his headline grabbing trip to Iraq
Compiled by the Political Editor and Parliamentary Bureau Chief of New Zealand’s most popular online news site – after accompanying said leader on excursion to grab headlines and suck the oxygen out of domestic politics.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Sacha,
Sounds like a long term project.
Labour's support is not a done deal. Mr Little still has qualms about the legislation's provision for 48-hour warrant-less surveillance, and its provision for cancelling passports for up to three years (compared to the current 12 months). But commentator Bryce Edwards says he expects Labour will ultimately back the legislation all the way.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Alfie,
Bryce Edwards’ political roundup today is…
The only surprising thing about this for me is that a lecturer in Politics who teaches and researches New Zealand public policy, political parties, elections, and political communication still feels that the flip- flopping of major New Zealand political parties is that newsworthy.
And now its supposedly non-negotiable bottom lines over TPP are suddenly appearing to be rather flexible.
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Hard News: Hug Reform, in reply to Sacha,
unlike our PM and hammers. :)
There’s your superhero/villain origin story; brought up by a single mother following the death of his alcoholic father, the boy never chanced upon the privilege of putting hammer to nail – whether it was that his family could barely afford either or that they were legally prohibited from doing any work on the state house the family occupied, whether he was short of guidance or simply lacked the manual dexterity or hand-eye coordination.
So rugged was this kingdom that a lad was nothing if unable to handle the hammer, so manly was this kingdom that any who could not hammer nail were openly ridiculed, by the liberals, the town criers – even the disabled made no bones of openly jeering at those within whom this ability was not evident.
Incensed, through a combination of good fortune and cunning the boy amassed a huge fortune, usurped the throne and wreaked vengeance on this nation of mocking hammerers – to this day many still wonder what hit them.
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Polity: Forty, in reply to Deborah,
my long held desire to effect change through senior political roles may never come to fruition either
This is a major failing of modern photogenic democracies, our kaumātua are relegated to political irrelevance and this is largely mirrored in society too, We need more leadership in the Corbyn, Sanders, Biden, Clinton age bracket. Hazarding a guess I’d speculate looking at average age that at any point in the last 30 years the Chinese Politburo has had 10-15 years more political experience than the western cabinets it’s been competing against, and it really shows. John Key is an adolescent and the puppet master Joyce isn’t any better.
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Hard News: Hug Reform, in reply to BenWilson,
Postcards from New Zealand.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to chris,
KPMG report (PDF).
