One would think that the continued problem of child poverty, property speculation, inequality or even the horror of slavery and sex abuse on our seas would be the main focus of our media.
Wrong.
A bloody seal is.
The real win for National with their capital gains tax which isn’t a capital gains tax and the $25 extra for beneficiaries (which is really just a smokescreen for disqualifying more beneficiaries using new work requirements) is that those who vote National can pretend those issues have been solved.
Back to the real issues at hand, like a Seal in a car was facility. TV3 has been crossing live to the Seal all morning.
Thank goodness MediaWorks are going to kill off Campbell Live due to too many ‘crusades’.
Couldn’t have summed yesterday’s media angst up better Martyn, other than at the other end of the day.. NZ being caught up in biggest storm in the world was Herald headlined as friends in Christchurch shivered in the wrecked shells of homes still unrepaired after 4years but oh well a state of the art transport hub and another ‘convention centre’. (sigh)
I’m not holding my breath for any decent, actual news from NZ’s MSM, anytime soon. You should know this yourself already Martyn, why the surprise?
Martyn
We don’t have any NZ MSM news any longer.
We have “diversion” items on our so called “News” broadcasts.
The “Propagandists” know we are already receiving far to many daily messages to our brains to cope already as a British study has now confirmed, so they use this knowledge that if they totally clog our brains with these clever diversions they will give us all “Brain fatigue” so people will loose interest in ant “news” items.
Take me, I have turned off watching all NZ news and now watch overseas news because any one of their channels of news are more real than this crap NZ media now call “News”.
Try Ch 83, Aljazeera, BBC, RT or the history channel they all relieve the tension.
Try getting all Opposition MPs to begin court proceeding to get TV1/RNZ to give half their asset to opposition Parties to commence a proper TV7 type broadcast as it is the only way forward here.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/831949
Bret S. Stetka, MD, Daniel Levitin, PhD
24th September 2014.
Quote;
“If we look back at our evolutionary history, the amount of information that existed in the world just a few thousand years ago was really just a small percentage of what exists now. By some estimates, the amount of scientific and medical information produced in the last 25 years is equal to all of the information in all of human history up to that point.
The human brain can really only attend to a few things at once, so I think we are reaching a point where we have to figure out how to filter information so that we can use it more intelligently and not be distracted by irrelevant information. Studies show that people who are given more information in certain situations tend to make poorer decisions because they become distracted or overwhelmed by the irrelevant information.”
We already have that filter; it’s called discriminating mind. You should try it sometime. It’s why I hardly watch free-to-air live TV in favour of the interweb or books. But you also need discriminating mind for that too.
So its bad to stifle Campbell but its good to stifle stories you do not like. Cant have it both ways
No Dan, it’s called priorities. Or are you seriously telling us that a wayward seal is more important that child poverty?
You want to control the media, but you criticize others that you believe are doing the same thing. Campbell did a story on hedgehogs recently for example. Didnt hear you bleating about that.
Did you mean “good” stories? Then you can’t have been talking about any show involving Hosking or Henry, because they don’t have any, so what’s to stifle?
At least Paul Henry and Hillary are funny sometimes
Anyone with good taste finds them biased, narcissistic and superficial. But if you find them funny, then that’s your prerogative.
yes it is
Anyone with good taste doesn’t watch them.
Its a strange world when John Key gains votes when he promises to change the screening time of Coronation Street.
I have come to the conclusion that the Sleepy Hobbits (aka New Zealanders) wouldn’t know real news if it hit them in the head. They have been progressively drained of any sense of realism and objectivity by the political right’s aim of dumbing down society to dim-wittedness.
Do you want the news in New Zealand? Then read Women’s Weekly, it won’t be much different.
Seals are popular with the MSM because they are used to having a performing seal sitting in the PM’s chair in parliament.
Don’t watch TV. The sky won’t fall.
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