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| Thread ID: 75453 | 2006-12-29 19:39:00 | Govt looks to new tax system for motorists | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 510772 | 2007-01-01 11:53:00 | I hope you're not going to get your knickers in a twist about all of the beat-ups we'll see over the holiday season - as journalists interview what used to be called " their typewriters" when facing the seasonal dearth of news. I, too, have sat at my desk thinking: Wotthehell can I find for a story today? January can be guaranteed to provide a few accidental holiday deaths by drowning, misadventure & on the roads. There'll be some vandalism & possibly fire, flood & thunderstorm. And there'll be plenty for the Sports pages. But you need more than that to fill News pages & screens.( Gotta have something around the ads...) So when parliament's not sitting & local bodies aren't meeting & most businesses are on holiday, anything that could possibly make a story is dredged up. This one, for instance, has what I'd call only 2 pieces of info in it. Ignore the heading & first para, then look for who actually said what. Any identifiable people quoted there? Nope - we have the Ministry, plus one news source quoting another one. And it's only because the reporter (No byline - too ashamed, I'd guess) was lucky enough to talk an AA man into making a comment that there's anything remotely current about this. The suggestion was they'd look at it ... long-term...etc This is known in Newsrooms as The Silly Season - for good reason. Those poor sod journalists working while others are on holiday will find more stuff like this. They've got to, after all. Please don't take it seriously. It's such a waste of time. Unless of course you're soooo bored yourself... |
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| 510773 | 2007-01-01 17:10:00 | Just another slow news day on the desk? Actually, it isn't too far-fetched to imagine such a happenstance. A few years back, we got notice that the Gas Company (who generate, transport and deliver cooking/heating gas to our homes) needed everyone to cut back 12-15% in consumption or the rates would have to increase to offset drilling for new or creating more pipelines to deliver their product. Well..wouldn't you know it...the citizens did just that...but they actually cut back 17%! We just received notice that since the use of cooking and heating fuel has dropped so and there's not as much money for exploration now, they are going to have to raise the delivered costs by 22% to offset the lost revenue. Some days you eat the bear...other days it eats you! |
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