Posts by giovanni tiso
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I was just checking out the upcoming Flyers vs Blackhawks game on NHL Ice Time.
Er... upcoming? I think you may have been misinformed!
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I don't think this is the fault of individual journalists. I know journalists, and they work hard within the very considerable constraints they are given. The problem is structural.
And if there is one person in this country who I blame, it is Michael Cullen, who made the Government's decision that TVNZ's profits were more important than the public interest
Agree on both counts. And what frustrates me about media discussions in NZ - at least the one's I've had - is that they are underlied by this idea that it's the way things are and nothing can be done. As if deregulation was a naturally occurring phenomenon or something. There have been in fact precise political decisions made by actual politicians and it's not outlandish to think that the next Labour government - if enough pressure is put on it by the likes of, you know, us - could decide that the system needs changing. And it wouldn't actually make the world stop turning, or send the nation to the poorhouse because suddenly the news programmes produced by TVNZ produced less of a dividend. It's what happens in most countries.
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Sorry, you're right Martin. I meant crap in a good way. Should have referred to some crap I watch. How's ice hockey?
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Freeview has really helped to personalise needs and eliminate unwanted TV.
Actually, until such time as everybody gets it, no. We're still pitifully served by the state television broadcaster, to say nothing of the only available newspapers, and that hurts us. It's not about indulding in crap in front of the telly - that's what Coronation Street is for. It's information.
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Wow. You're actually getting quite offensive now.
You know, I can see now that in the way that I put it that it was both unfair and out of line. I apologise for that. For not other reason that what you've created here is exactly an independent space of criticism, and it's often aimed at the media.
I do however remain curious as to whether anybody thinks there is in fact a problem of industry scale in the kind of criticisms than can be levelled from within the established media themselves, rather than, say, on Public Address.
(And FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest the existence of a clique - I know I would be less likely to criticise somebody harshly on a professional level if I knew them personally, and they happened to be likeable.)
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On the subject of the RNZ cuts, can I offer the following actual suggestion I got from Facebook today?
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I somehow doubt that the news bulletin produced on TVNZ7 costs $10 billion a year. We'd know by now I think.
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So, just like the media, then?
Yes, which is very precisely my point.
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A single newsreader who presents like a grown-up, less bells and whistles. For me, the glaring omission is the long-form, one-on-one interview that has been practised on TVNZ by the likes of Kim Hill, Ian Fraser and Brian Edwards historically.
Give me that on Channel One, one hour Media7s and we can start talking.
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Which he did, like, once, and not on his own programme.
Actually, on his programme he does it all the time, but I get that it's different.