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Thread ID: 103008 2009-09-09 07:17:00 A-flue-ant v eff-loo-ent Zippity (58) PC World Chat
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808254 2009-09-10 01:51:00 Except that their political reporting is incredibly biased and often very poorly researched. TVNZ's isn't brilliant either, but at least it's better than 3's.

I rarely watch either - TV news in this country is utterly useless these days :(.

So true - the way they use emotive language and music when they report things is atrocious; newsreaders should only state the facts, and let the inherent sensibilities of the information speak.
nofam (9009)
808255 2009-09-11 11:57:00 Why do they have news updates through the night and have the same news all the time? Whenu (9358)
808256 2009-09-11 11:58:00 In case you missed the previous updates. Erayd (23)
808257 2009-09-11 12:19:00 Easy, just dont watch NZ news shows :D beeswax34 (63)
808258 2009-09-11 21:19:00 I um just um hate um the argh um what was I um saying um err that err goes um on err with all err reporters um.

It seems they all went to the same training school to learn how to inject as many um, err and argh words as possible into a sentence
gary67 (56)
808259 2009-09-13 10:08:00 Am I alone in expressing dismay at the quality (or lack of) English being spoken by today's TVOne news readers? :( :(

Lol do you have a link to whatever the "effluent" thing was? I'd love to see that. There's another word that they seem not to be able to pronounce but I forget what it is
Kindel (6640)
808260 2009-09-13 11:25:00 Can anyone remember when the news readers spoke with an English plum in the mouth accent like Bill Toft and that Angela chick not sure of her surname (died of cancer).
I dont care about quality of English while reporting news as long as they are interesting and humorous although they dont have to be funny reporting a catastrophe lol.
That chick on 3s news is my fav as well as looking tidy she has a lots of cool phrases for weather phenomena.
NZ English is always evolving so lets have a bit of fun with the language. We dont have to speak the Queens English like they do back in Oxford and Cambridge Pomgolia.
prefect (6291)
808261 2009-09-13 19:48:00 That's true I just wish people who get paid to speak could actually speak and not interject every sentence with several um's, err's and arr's gary67 (56)
808262 2009-09-14 00:23:00 That's true I just wish people who get paid to speak could actually speak and not interject every sentence with several um's, err's and arr's

And I wish they would learn how and where to place emphasis. Misplaced emphasis can entirely alter the meaning. A really bad example a few years ago where the local ZM station was reporting a brawl in one of the Wellington outer suburbs. First, the news item gave the version of events from one of the bystanders. Next up was the Police version. Instead of reading "The Police say ...", the newsreader said "The Police say ..."

If anybody can't get what I'm driving at, try reading those two versions aloud, emphasising only the bold words in each. When I pointed this out to the lightweights at ZM, they would only say that the newsreader spoke the words verbatim from the script.

:2cents:

BTW Prefect, I think you were talking about Angela D'Audney, and I agree with your post.
WalOne (4202)
808263 2009-09-14 03:45:00 It grates me to hear newspeople pronounce 'twenny'. Kevin Milne (and
'gonna') is one of the worst for this but weatherforecasters also fall into this laziness.
user (1404)
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