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| Thread ID: 82113 | 2007-08-16 06:39:00 | Loan Sharks | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 581534 | 2007-08-17 09:18:00 | Unfortunatly in NZ news these days, crime, road accidents and scandels seem to be the main items. No matter if there was a big earthquake in Peru. Unfortunatly my wife's family loves this sort of NZ news and can't wait at nite for the lates murder or accident to come on.. She doesn't thankfully.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 581535 | 2007-08-17 12:54:00 | A slow news day will do it every time. Same deal for the 'scandal' about Air NZ being chartered to transport Aussie troops to the Middle East. Big deal, so what! now at first i thought the same thing, but now i think i know why our govt doesn't want aircraft with "NEW ZEALAND" delivering troops into iraq: it's the same reason why we didn't help out in the first place; sending troops into the middle east is asking for trouble. does anyone remember the london bus bombings that happened almost immediately after the british went into iraq? air new zealland, the govt fears, is making NZ a target. whether or not this is the case is debatable, but myself, i'd rather not take the risk |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 581536 | 2007-08-17 12:56:00 | and as for the actual thread topic; if you haven't noticed NZ news is complete and utter rubbish and has been for a while now. | motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 581537 | 2007-08-18 05:07:00 | Because it happened in Auckland, if it happened elsewere in the country it would barely rate a mention on TVAuckland. | tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 581538 | 2007-08-18 05:24:00 | The Casino loan shark story was an old-school journalistic scoop for TV One. I don't blame them for pushing it hard. News-time advertising is the most expensive time they can sell, too, and it pays for the cost of running a newsroom. Not only that, but good investigative journalism is in short supply in NZ. Deane has it right. It was a TVNZ scoop. Naturally, they will keep plugging it. (As would the Herald..or Sunday Star-Times ... or whoever put a major effort into exposing a new story first. It's how journalism has always worked. It's just that nowadays we're bombarded by so many news sources that we forget who told us what and when. Or more likely, just don't care) Edit: Sorry, suppose I should've declared an interest here. For those who don't know, I'm a retired journalist. (And no, I don't answer nowadays to every complaint that anyone ever had about any journalist in any field. I gave that up when I retired) |
Laura (43) | ||
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