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Thread ID: 138576 2014-12-18 21:12:00 How can the press be so ignorant ? Terry Porritt (14) PC World Chat
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1390559 2014-12-18 21:12:00 On the news this morning, an Australian went missing between Waitewaewae Hut and Otaki Forks which is on the western side of the Tararuas, Stuff website heads the story with a photo of the Atiwhatiku river which is on the eastern side of the main range, just about as far away from the scene of the search as you could get.

www.stuff.co.nz
Terry Porritt (14)
1390560 2014-12-19 00:04:00 It's Stuff.... and apparently Wellington was "levelled" in that 2013 quake www.stuff.co.nz
"Remember when an earthquake levelled New Zealand's capital as punishment for legalising gay marriage?"... can't say I do remember :nerd:
Renegade (16270)
1390561 2014-12-19 00:07:00 Australian went missing between Waitewaewae Hut and Otaki Forks which is on the western side of the Tararuas, Stuff website heads the story with a photo of the Atiwhatiku river which is on the eastern side

So? They are reporting news not providing a map for searchers.
pctek (84)
1390562 2014-12-19 00:27:00 On the news this morning, an Australian went missing

Mistakes happen (for example Austrians don't come from Australia) , and it's probably just the closest stock photo they found. Not really relevant to the story but it gives a visual of the general area.
dugimodo (138)
1390563 2014-12-19 01:09:00 Mistakes happen (for example Austrians don't come from Australia) , and it's probably just the closest stock photo they found. Not really relevant to the story but it gives a visual of the general area.

Terr will be pleased you have explained that.

He wasn't sure at all.
Cicero (40)
1390564 2014-12-19 01:37:00 "How can the press be so ignorant ? "

Practice, constant dedicated practice. (Plus being carefully selected for the right genes of course.) ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1390565 2014-12-19 02:09:00 How can the press be so ignorant ?

Ask nzherald.co.nz - I beleive they hold the current franchise for Ignorance in the Fourth Estate.

They continually

Show Thinkstock pictures of either a Police no entry ribbon, or a cop car - to illustrate that they are reporting on a crime,

Show Thinkstock pictures of a pair of handcuffs attached to someone's wrists - to illustrate the the cops have made an arrest,

Show file pics of anything that remotely may fit the written word, e.g. an image of a Boeing 747 to accompany a pic of a Boeing 717 in distress,

Show pics of events days old, passing them off as "breaking news".

And these clowns expect any thinking person to pay money for their two bit rag?

:angry
WalOne (4202)
1390566 2014-12-19 04:11:00 Mistakes happen (for example Austrians don't come from Australia) , and it's probably just the closest stock photo they found. Not really relevant to the story but it gives a visual of the general area.

There are zillions of photos of Otaki Forks that Stuff could have used. DOC could have supplied them if neccessary, or even one of Waitewaewae Hutt of which there will be not a few. It's almost like having a story about goings on in Wellington headed by a photo of Nelson. :banana

It doesn't even 'give a visual of the general area', the eastern Tararuas are distinctly different to the western side.
Terry Porritt (14)
1390567 2014-12-19 04:42:00 I agree Terry its just NATO standard numbnuts media reporting. There is a worse one than NZ Herald that's the Daily Mail in poverty rock, their reporting on military stuff is so appalling its funny. prefect (6291)
1390568 2014-12-19 04:43:00 So? They are reporting news not providing a map for searchers.

No need for a bad tempered reply like that, respect your elders.
prefect (6291)
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