Please don’t get me started! Suffice to say that a reasonably rational, perceptive, open mind with access to the internet and some web search skills will quickly form a very different view of the world to that presented on Mew Zealand’s daily news hour. I don’t know which has me reaching for the whiskey fastest when their smug mug appears on the big screen: John “EQ Overload” Campbell, Jenna “Lynch by name, Lynch by nature”, or Dominic “the Smug” C. what a rotten, deplorable state our state funded media outlets are currently in!
We stopped watching TVNZ news many years ago and now we record the 5.30 news on Sky Open. While they get their clips etc from the same sources they have little opinion and we can whizz through it later at a great rate. Their presenters are also not as "manicured" (aka less plastic) as those on TVNZ. I complained to Shane Currie a while back and not surprisingly, did not hear back.
I think they're so frightened of the inroads that alternative, on-line news sources are making on their traditional readership that they prefer to be ostriches and hope it will all go away. They still think that labelling anything from such sources as misinformation etc will turn people away. The general Joe public, in which group I include myself, are not so guilible.
Sky Open is the first port of call but because I am a media junkie I dip in and out of TVNZ news. I cannot stand 3 or Newshub or whatever they call themselves. On demand helps because it enables the casting of a critical eye over a story - which is what I did with the Police Minister story.
I have another news media comment scheduled for tomorrow at 11:00 but something far more concerning, controversial and contentious will be with you and all my subscribers at 8:00. It is part 1 of 2 and I have paywalled it.
And still the various media pundits write soul-searching pieces on why trust and confidence in the MSM is at an all-time low. I think they are truly in such a collective bubble, especially the Wellington-based journos, that they've completely lost touch with the reality most of us inhabit. As John Campbell so clearly illustrated recently, the collective media mavens are simply unable to understand the rest of us! Perhaps they're all suffering from extreme cognitive dissonance and if so, one day the crash will come.
I almost hesitate to watch TVNZ 1 News tonight or read the Herald tomorrow lest there be yet another outrage. And of course tomorrow in the Herald (print or online) will be Shayne Currie's self-serving discussion. If he were aware of the Halfling I have no doubt he would excoriate me in the manner used by Sauron against Gollum!
As to Halflings Tolkien described us as an unobtrusive and very ancient people...they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth... they possessed from the first the art of disapopearing swiftly and silently when large folk they do not wish to meet come blundering by.
J R R Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring" Prologue 'Concerning Hobbits'
“A faux outrage a day keeps the day of reckoning at bay” seems to be the current strategy. Let’s see how successful that proves to be as the next few polls asking voters who they’d vote for on the day and how much trust they place in the various media outlets are published. It wouldn’t surprise me to start seeing some “alternative media” and foreign outlets start cropping up in those future poll results.
I viewed a YouTube post of a TVNZ Breakfast presenter interviewing Chris Luxon. She spent a lot of time pressing him about Mark Mitchell's so called 'muddled' words, much more than was necessary to make the point. This was more of the MSM trying to undermine the present Government.
Please don’t get me started! Suffice to say that a reasonably rational, perceptive, open mind with access to the internet and some web search skills will quickly form a very different view of the world to that presented on Mew Zealand’s daily news hour. I don’t know which has me reaching for the whiskey fastest when their smug mug appears on the big screen: John “EQ Overload” Campbell, Jenna “Lynch by name, Lynch by nature”, or Dominic “the Smug” C. what a rotten, deplorable state our state funded media outlets are currently in!
We stopped watching TVNZ news many years ago and now we record the 5.30 news on Sky Open. While they get their clips etc from the same sources they have little opinion and we can whizz through it later at a great rate. Their presenters are also not as "manicured" (aka less plastic) as those on TVNZ. I complained to Shane Currie a while back and not surprisingly, did not hear back.
I think they're so frightened of the inroads that alternative, on-line news sources are making on their traditional readership that they prefer to be ostriches and hope it will all go away. They still think that labelling anything from such sources as misinformation etc will turn people away. The general Joe public, in which group I include myself, are not so guilible.
Thanks for the observations Aroha
Sky Open is the first port of call but because I am a media junkie I dip in and out of TVNZ news. I cannot stand 3 or Newshub or whatever they call themselves. On demand helps because it enables the casting of a critical eye over a story - which is what I did with the Police Minister story.
I have another news media comment scheduled for tomorrow at 11:00 but something far more concerning, controversial and contentious will be with you and all my subscribers at 8:00. It is part 1 of 2 and I have paywalled it.
And still the various media pundits write soul-searching pieces on why trust and confidence in the MSM is at an all-time low. I think they are truly in such a collective bubble, especially the Wellington-based journos, that they've completely lost touch with the reality most of us inhabit. As John Campbell so clearly illustrated recently, the collective media mavens are simply unable to understand the rest of us! Perhaps they're all suffering from extreme cognitive dissonance and if so, one day the crash will come.
Thanks Aroha
I almost hesitate to watch TVNZ 1 News tonight or read the Herald tomorrow lest there be yet another outrage. And of course tomorrow in the Herald (print or online) will be Shayne Currie's self-serving discussion. If he were aware of the Halfling I have no doubt he would excoriate me in the manner used by Sauron against Gollum!
As to Halflings Tolkien described us as an unobtrusive and very ancient people...they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth... they possessed from the first the art of disapopearing swiftly and silently when large folk they do not wish to meet come blundering by.
J R R Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring" Prologue 'Concerning Hobbits'
“A faux outrage a day keeps the day of reckoning at bay” seems to be the current strategy. Let’s see how successful that proves to be as the next few polls asking voters who they’d vote for on the day and how much trust they place in the various media outlets are published. It wouldn’t surprise me to start seeing some “alternative media” and foreign outlets start cropping up in those future poll results.
I viewed a YouTube post of a TVNZ Breakfast presenter interviewing Chris Luxon. She spent a lot of time pressing him about Mark Mitchell's so called 'muddled' words, much more than was necessary to make the point. This was more of the MSM trying to undermine the present Government.