Breakfast on TV3 vs Breakfast on TV One is a clash between two bald old media monoliths fighting over a comb

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Yawn.

The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…

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…it’s painfully light weight and feels like  MacDonald’s would sponsor it. No one seems to have worked out what the show is yet, which is concerning seeing as the show is actually on air now.

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Meanwhile old man Henry is managing to become grumpier and grumpier by the day with him snapping at anything closely regarding progressive. Even his two hostages on set, the news reader and the sports reader, are so terrified of Paul they uundergo Stockholm Syndrome at 6am weekdays and quickly squeak out their agreements with any topic he settles on.

It’s the kind of on set tension that will appeal to those who have come from deeply dysfunctional families.

Paul’s vile little attack on Kevin Hague this week was needless bullying.

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So the choices for TV news in the morning is between a gameshow thinking it’s a news show and a right wing arsehole.

 

21 COMMENTS

  1. I watch MSM less and less these days because its so overtly right wing and even if i wanted to be informed in the morning via my tv my choice is tweedle dumb and tweedle twat waffle (Hideous Henry), thank christ for the internet and until recently WAATEA FIFTH ESTATE.
    There is a growing sense of unease with the people i talk too about whats happening with our media and i get a lot of feedback about how unpopular John Key is so there IS a resentment building against this regime and the puppet media.

    • Bring back Waatea Fifth Estate…please – NZ is a political wasteland without it.
      Is there any way that a crowd funding approach could work for the show?

    • Bloody hell!!!

      Glad I missed it, – I don’t watch that channel any more as it is just puff & shallow fluff of no substance whatsoever.

      Get onto the show and I will watch it Martyn.

  2. I agree the media in NZ is appalling. Next time the left get in some strategic thinking will be required.

    1) Sell TVNZ – it’s not worth saving and we could spend the money better
    2) Double perhaps even triple RNZ funding.
    3) Double NZ on Air funding and control when programmes can be aired.

    • So what you’re saying is that you personally don’t like the content on morning TV, so it should be heavily regulated by a group you approve of and only show content you approve of at a time of day you approve of in a medium you approve of.

      An alternative, and fairer strategy might be to simply not watch either channel and watch the ratings fall to a point where both programmes are pulled, then start up a channel with content of which you approve.

      It is morning TV remember, so make it bright, fun, informative, contriversial and thought provoking. People would rather start their day with a laugh than a stern lecture.

      Oh and by the way, remember that ultimately you’re answerable to the advertisers, because this is commercial TV and advertisers pay the bills

      • “People would rather start their day with a laugh than a stern lecture.”

        Which begs the question, why would they watch Henry or Hosking? All those guys do is get angry about the people they think are wrong.

        • You said it, Takere.

          I didn’t even realise Breakfast TV was still going? I thought it was all infomercials these days.

          Thank god for Radio NZ, for preserving my sanity.

  3. Fighting over muesli and over who gets the candy on top, I guess, that is what it is about.

    Chit chat, silly jokes, yahooing, laughter, much weather, sports and the odd interview with our PM, and “panel” guests who think they are important, but tend to be on the way out of their careers.

    Stale milk tastes better than the visual and audio “entertainment” or rather infotainment we get for “breakfast”, no matter what side it is served by.

    • Goodness me, silly jokes, yahooing, laughter…sounds like fun…and we can’t be having that now, can we?

      Fun and laughter? How dare they!!

      • There is a place for it, but only in moderation in programs that are supposed to inform people. If they want to go for entertainment, do not try and present “news” with it, as it is a huge fail, see above.

        • Yes, how dare they attempt to entertain while we get informed. The next thing they’ll be putting infomercials on Story and Seven Sharp masquerading as news

  4. “Even his two hostages on set, the news reader and the sports reader, are so terrified of Paul they uundergo Stockholm Syndrome at 6am weekdays and quickly squeak out their agreements with any topic he settles on.”

    Gosh, that is more or less the same as what I had as an impression of the set on TV3 and Radio Live(ing Dead).

  5. And the non-discerning majority viewers can’t get enough of it.
    It is so funny it reminds me of the Muppet Show sketch featuring Waldorf and Staedler when they start out by saying the show was bad, remembering some good things in it and ending up yelling it was great, more! more!
    The worse these breakfast shows get, the more the viewers love it.

  6. at first glance at the image, i thought the wiggles were touring.
    the wiggles are more relevant as a news source, as it all turns out.

  7. Who cares who watches. I mean if the people turning on this rubbish believe it, then sorry for them.

    I just can’t see the point anymore of wasting energy and time on this issue. Espically when doing our own media/message, is, and has only ever been – THE ANSWER.

  8. Some may have missed the item when Barry commented on what a joke the UN is. What a joke Key was, standing tall and “telling” the world how they have failed Syria. Barry ( unshackled from Paul Henry’s right wing rants, with no recourse) stated facts by commenting that “the leaders will all get in a huddle, will talk, talk and talk some more. More meetings will be had, followed by more talking and at the end of the meetings and all the talking, what will be the end result, NOTHING, the children of Syria will continue to be killed and the war will continue”.

    So despite all the fluff pieces, Hillary Barry has her own voice, free to make comment, free from the Neo Liberal tosser that is Henry and free from the tosser Henry ,who dismissed Kevin Hague who is universally liked across all political parties. But then again, Henry believes he is god, he is that deluded.

  9. I think TVNZ should be entirely in public hands with zero commercial requirements. The news on TVNZ should be robust and accurate rather than the current neoliberal sychophantic monolith. There should be zero advertising on TVNZ (there are about 100 other channels where you can get this if you really want it – including the advsrtising only channels – shopping and the like). I believe a decent and balanced broadcaster needs to counter the abovementioned neoliberal diatribe alluded to above.

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