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| Thread ID: 59512 | 2005-07-04 12:04:00 | TV3 - Its a bird, its a plane, its a ... meteor? | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 369356 | 2005-07-04 12:04:00 | Was I the only one throwing things at the screen during the TV3 news tonight, shouting "Its a comet, stupid!" while they repeatedly referred to NASA trying to fire a missile into a meteor? That sort of careless reporting really gets me steamed! :mad: |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 369357 | 2005-07-04 12:47:00 | :D Good one Tony! Well picked up. At least the BBC (news.bbc.co.uk) got it right. 2 things. Firstly : "throwing things"? Why throw things when the "Elvis way" would be much more satisfying? BAM! Especially if that prat Campbell was still presenting... Secondly, TV3 'NEWS' is CRAPOLA! It's not NEWS, it's infotainment! Smashing space 'probes' (or missiles?) into comets is nothing more then celestial vandalism....you can see it now on Paul Holmes : "Save the Comets" (does anyone remember the appeal to save the starving dogs of Bali?). I know he's not on TV3 but thought I would put that in anyway.... :thumbs: |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 369358 | 2005-07-04 12:48:00 | There was worse. Prime news said it was taking place in the far reaches of the Galaxy | Dally (6292) | ||
| 369359 | 2005-07-04 14:05:00 | In regard to TV news I was amazed when Kate Hawkesby said that the the US troops in Iraq were putting one of Saddam Husseins's palaces "to good use' by having a pool party there. I would have thought the news would better be reporting that US troops were having a pool party there, and whether or not it was a good thing was up to the viewers to decide...............m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 369360 | 2005-07-04 21:45:00 | Did you also notice on 3 News at 6.15 . "These pictures just in from NASA" These picture I had seen 20 minutes before on CNN live.. Oh well . I guess there is still a 20 minute time lag between NASA and NZ | paulw (1826) | ||
| 369361 | 2005-07-04 23:44:00 | Comets = meteors = meteorites, are bad enough, but the news media constantly get monkeys and chimpanzees mixed as well. BTW, the orangutan-VISA advert is a winner! |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 369362 | 2005-07-05 00:56:00 | There is no such thing as serious news programs these days on either TV or radio, they are all called shows. The dilution of "news shows" by ads on TV, something that would never have been contemplated by the BBC (don't know about now though) illustrates the low value placed on news reporting in this country. Edit: depite us being in the 21 century all news readers are scientific and mathematical illiterates. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 369363 | 2005-07-05 01:18:00 | The news is a business, not a service. Remember the great Deregulation Revolution of the late 80s - 90s, when the mantra was that "business is better at running everything" and the "state must be dismantled"? Now this is what we get. Infotainment. :groan: .....m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 369364 | 2005-07-05 02:06:00 | The news is a business, not a service. Remember the great Deregulation Revolution of the late 80s - 90s, when the mantra was that "business is better at running everything" and the "state must be dismantled"? Now this is what we get. Infotainment. :groan: .....m And who owns One News?? The Govement and it's still crappy.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 369365 | 2005-07-05 03:17:00 | One news has to compete in the news / infotainment market for the ratings and the advertdollar......m | mark c (247) | ||
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