Posts by Megan Wegan
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...Anyway, I'm outta here, Russ and I have a radio show to do.
Leave me all on my own why don't you??
Actually, I am off too. I'm done for the day and am gonna go and find a banker and ask him to go on public record explaining everything that is wrong with his industry.
It's how I like to spend my leisure time.
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As can a huge section of the women I know between about 25 and 35. Generational thing?
Oh, absolutely. Return of the Jedi might have been the first film I ever saw at the movies, but Dirty Dancing is the enduring one. And it often gets put on when i am drunk.
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I worry that there simply aren't enough employers available for anybody to meaningfully criticise anything and still get work.
This is the first time I've ever talked about being a journalist here on PAS. But if you think for a second I am sitting at my desk quietly every day at work, and not questioning the powers that be? Well, Giovanni, you've met me. You can't possibly think that.
The path between my desk and the editors' is well-worn.
What good are those? Seriously.
Many of them? None at all. The ones that are telling us we got something wrong, are articulate and well-reasoned, are incredibly useful and do get noticed.
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Amen. Even when I check in at Air New Zealand, the woman behind the counter decides it's appropriate to tell me what bugs her (in this case it was someone calling the PM by his first name).
If we're going to get back to basics - I think TV news and current affairs could be improved in any number of ways. Adding a hundred million people to our population wouldn't hurt. If you want a service like the BBC offers it's going to cost about $10 billion per year, give or take.
And never ever tell a taxi driver.
Like I say. I'm never going to argue we are perfect. But there are a number of reasons the industry is the way it is.
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Could it be because there is no other outlet than the entirely misguided one of losing your rag at the first available journalist?
Other than the phone calls, emails, letters etc that we get on a daily basis?
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Can you point me to these sources of strong, sustained, coherent media criticism?
No. Other than here. But what I can point you to is how every second person who meets me, and finds out what I do, feels free to criticise my job, my organisation, and my industry. Feels free to tell me how bad the television news is. Despite the fact that I don't work in it. And doesn't listen when I talk about things like, as Damian says, sustained budget cutting, shrinking newsrooms, and basic human frailty.
No one would argue we are perfect. But I don't think I've ever met a doctor, and spent ten minutes lecturing him or her on the state of the health system.
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It never gets attacked, we only nibble at the edges.
Really? 'Cos believe me, it doesn't feel like that.
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Just this morning, before 6am, I used the line "nobody puts baby in a corner".
I kind of hate myself now. But I can pretty much recite the words to Dirty Dancing.
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When filming they hand-delivered daily rushes overnight to Los Angeles. That's one guy whose job is to travel daily between LA and Hawai'i, with daily return plane tickets on top.
Jeepers. Could they not just hand it to the pilot?
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Well, I don't imagine they were all staying in 5 star resorts, but no, it wouldn't have been cheap.