A brief word on the intrusive media focus of the Richie McCaw wedding

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2 brief things about the intrusive media focus of the Richie McCaw wedding.

1: If people don’t want you at their wedding, the media should respect that.

2: Let’s all be thankful that McCaw had his wedding in January and not during the election campaign or else we’d have had no coverage of politics at all.

This myopic focus on McCaw’s wedding is only more proof of the ‘fake news’ corporate mainstream media clickbait us with.

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  1. It is one big bloody yawn. The love affair with sports people makes me puke and it is so propped up by mainstream media. Can’t remember anyone being interested in one of our great writers / playwrights / artists weddings…….

  2. There is Fake News and then there is Bullshit ‘News’. The McCaw thing fits the latter category.

    The only thing missing were drunken rugby players pawing at a stripper and some raunchy goings-on in a toilet. The msm would have orgasmed at the prospect!

  3. Stupid Ozzie paparazzi agency hiring a plane to fly over the venue to take pictures – good on the plane company for cancelling the booking. So the said agency is contemplating suing for breach of contract – may they lose big time. Celebrities are entitled to their privacy – although not so sure that cheque book privacy is quite in that league, but I guess the only people making money out of such pictures should be the subjects themselves.

    • I didn’t realise that happened. Good on the company for not tolerating this pap shit.

      It would be nice if NZ could keep that part of our culture that doesn’t treat “celebrities” any differently…

  4. Bloody hell! Look at all the thunder and lightning coming from my teacup…

    Privacy schmivacy. Mr and Mrs Hero are trying to make money by selling exclusive rights to the images of their wedding.

    And some other schmucks are trying to get in on it.

    So this is relevant to everyone else because why?

    I’d a been a lot more impressed if Wiremu’s and Donna’s wedding in Mangere had been covered and bought by the media.

    This is just more landed white gentry bullshit.

    That’s fucking capitalism for you.

  5. No disrespect to Richie McCaw, but he’s a rugby player. He’s good at running around a paddock and kicking a ball. In the grand scheme of things, both of these talents are of virtually no consequence. And yet he’s treated as New Zealand’s answer to Sir Lancelot, with the media falling all over themselves in their desperate attempts to bring us the latest in the life and times of… a guy who runs around a paddock, kicking a ball. Oh, and he flies a helicopter too, which apparently takes no small amount of skill and is marginally more interesting than flailing about in the mud, cuddling other men.

    Basically… who fucking cares? Richie and Gemma got married. I wish them all the best and I hope they’re very happy together. I also wish I didn’t have to read about it for the next three fucking months, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

  6. NZ Herald called it a ‘royal wedding’. Sadly that says more about the media in NZ than the McCaws, who don’t seem that interested in being royalty.

  7. So apparently, “celebrity news” sells advertising, and requires zero journalistic talent to generate (i.e., it’s cheap!).
    Therefore, the MSM in NZ, so desperate to find celebrities they can sell to the “room-temperature-IQ” public, have to invent them: hence the McCaw phenomenon.
    Like most celebrities, McCaw is a nothing. Someone who played a game that apparently means something more than it should for a lot of people, got well paid for it, and now needs to lauded and upheld for his admiring public.
    Pass the bucket please.

  8. One News lead story was this bloody crap ( i fast forwarded through it and it went on for some time) before making time to report two people who had died in Hawkes Bay and the duration of that was less than twenty seconds and then on to the horror of the up coming Trump presidency.

    TVNZ abandoned its commitment to real news and journalism a long time ago and does not respect its public responsibilities to provide unbiased coverage and in depth investigation into the issues that are important.

    We used to be well served and educated about what is happening in our own country until the neo lib forces took over and imposed their agenda.

  9. I don’t really have a big problem with this. Whether you like it or not, it’s a fact that Richie McCaw is one of the most famous living NZers. And when famous NZers get married, it is legitimate news. I’m not saying the media didn’t go a bit over the top, but fake news is where stuff gets made up and, if it’s click bait, well at least it’s original, local click bait instead of celebrity gossip or weight loss anecdotes recycled from other countries.

  10. I felt quite bilious every time I checked out the news on msm last weekend.

    So unnecessary and certainly doesn’t add to the (steadily vaporizing) intelligence of the nation, which msm seems to want to completely destroy altogether, with its outrageous over the top promotion of this hideous BS.

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