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| Thread ID: 115818 | 2011-02-04 23:46:00 | Do you find "Human Interest" stories interesting? | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1175328 | 2011-02-05 02:48:00 | What I want is succinct, objective, factual reporting with no irrelevant frills prime news. Sky News. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1175329 | 2011-02-05 03:38:00 | completley agree with you both . its a sad situation i know but, if your having "rolling coverage" every waking hour of the day then surely you can go without a half hour "special". But who really wants "rolling coverage"? I thinks it's something they've invented to justify their existence. "But the public needs this..." :yuck: the second innings. then at 6pm they would cut to a 'flood special' for an hour and just repeat what they said 30mins prior.". That's right - a thirty seconds "There have been no further developments in..." type statement would do! - But even that's unnecessary - only appear if something important has happened! I for one am sad that they got rid of Modern Family, it was moderately entertaining during dinner. On again, on 3, Sundays, 7pm ;) The one that gets me is the stupid on site reporter reporting nothing more than some one could have done in the studio. Yep - see comment before last :groan: |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1175330 | 2011-02-05 04:57:00 | News or Sports, I sit in dread, waiting for the first mention of "carnage" . "It's carnage up here mate", or, "it was carnage in downtown Nowheresville" today", or "Yeah bro, there was carnage on the footy field at the Sevens today . " etc etc . Carnage n . Great slaughter, especially in battle . Slaughter n . killing of many persons or animals at once . I live for the day that the news services report genuine carnage, say in Parliament, or at Waitangi . It is a word much overused and abused, yet you never hear 'carnage' applied appropriately, for example, when there is genuine slaughter of innocents in far-off lands . All you get is a watered down masterpiece of brevity: it didn't happen here so why worry! "It was bit messy in the marketplace today after the bus full of refugees exploded . " followed by a picture of the hole in the road, and then "Now for the Sports News . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1175331 | 2011-02-05 05:57:00 | TV7 achieves in 10 minutes almost exactly what TV1 and TV3 do in an hour. | tut (12033) | ||
| 1175332 | 2011-02-05 06:16:00 | The one that gets me is the stupid on site reporter reporting nothing more than some one could have done in the studio. Classic one of those is the chap who does the weather on TV1 breakfast, probably of 150k and half the time he is away, funnily they manage quite well without him. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1175333 | 2011-02-05 09:58:00 | I usually watch the intro to the news, to get the quick headlines, then maybe the lead story, then flick over to something else. As for the Chch EQ, I wouldn't know how bad the news was, had no power for two days, but what I did see was pretty useless - just reporters standing outside the same building, repeating the same ****, with the odd new snippet that might actually be useful just glossed over. In that sort of situation, they should be spouting things like 'emergency centers are here here and here' and 'water can be picked up from...', etc etc, rather than interviews with people who carry on about 'how the house shook' and 'it was really scary'. Useless ****s. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1175334 | 2011-02-05 20:14:00 | News or Sports, I sit in dread, waiting for the first mention of "carnage". It is a word much overused and abused,-{) A few years back it was "Absolutely" - "Is it carnage down there Brian?" "Absolutely" - it would have been nice to hear a straightforward "Yes" or "That's right" now and again. I tried counting it up in one One News edition and, because they were bouncing around between multiple reporters "at the scene" (Like One's coverage of the Waitangi circus at 6pm last night), "Absolutely"'s were well into double figures! :ban |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1175335 | 2011-02-05 20:32:00 | That's why I read the news on the BBC and a couple of the London newspapers such as the Telegraph or Times, much more unbiased reporting. Note I didn't say completely unbiased just much less | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1175336 | 2011-02-06 01:57:00 | TV7 achieves in 10 minutes almost exactly what TV1 and TV3 do in an hour. That's why I watch that at breakfast rather than the dross on One called Breakfast.. or should it be called breakfarce.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1175337 | 2011-02-06 02:16:00 | :lol: I totally agree with you guys. I haven't watched the news or much tv in a while just because most of it is quite dumbed down that you don't really get much out of it. I found this video (www.youtube.com) a while ago which I thought makes a pretty good point about tvnz at least. I mostly look for my news on the web, mostly alternate media but I like to compare it with mainstream as well so I watch/read some from time to time :2cents: |
mOOseCaNNoN (13319) | ||
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