Cough-cough.
As TDB predicted in SEPTEMBER of this year…
Native Affairs to be cut back to half-hour format
Major changes are in store for Maori Television’s award-winning current affairs series Native Affairs as it enters its 10th year.The hour-long programme will be cut back to just 30 minutes next year, and will lose one of its presenters.
The series is currently hosted by Billie-Jo Hohepa Ropiha and Ward Kamo, following the resignation of Mihingarangi Forbes earlier this year.
However, head of news and current affairs Maramena Roderick says no jobs will be lost as a result of the changes.
In a statement, Maori Television said the programme will feature “indigenous stories from New Zealand and around the world”.
Roderick says the decision is “audience driven”.
“We are responding to our audience appetite for shorter and sharper stories while continuing with our investigative approach,” she said in a statement.
It was that Mihingarangi was unconvincing as a Maori speaker. That’s all. Only social media premadonas care about quick sound bites.
Primadonna you cretin. And there was nothing unconvincing about MS Forbes. Her professionalism out shone all the arse kissing dross left on Maori TV.
Her dialect was flat. The stories she covered was just an excuse to get rid of her because some well to do Maori didn’t like the way she pronounced Maori words. Which is a shame because she has great research ability.
There really is only a handful of tech savvy premadonas @MTV, that won, over the more experienced old hands (who couldn’t quite keep pace with social media) the old timers were taught not to engage with social media as away to maintain anonymity. So the old timers fell behind and the new, cheaper forms of media has largely won out.
It’s not really a fault of viewers or commentators, these small bunch of (not just @MTV, all mainstream media) tech premadonas are viscous little shits not afraid to throw any one under the bus to see there little pet projects develop and capture all the funding. It’s just a shame the old timers couldn’t keep pace with change. Now no one is going to where the action is.
…so if you are wanting long, in depth investigational news, where to for that….? Nowhere – costs to much it seems. Good luck daily blog in filling this void in 2016.
Here’s some things I predict:
The GCSB starts spying on SAFE
More journalists homes and workplaces are searched by the police
The Harmful Communications Act is used to try to shut down political comment on social media
This government doesn’t even attempt to meet its pathetic greenhouse gas targets
Unions continue to be attacked, especially the teacher’s unions
The government stuffs its own people in the Environmental Protection Agency court, invites mining companies to resubmit their plans for mining off South Taranaki and the Chatham Islands and get the go ahead.
National Radio continues to have its funding reduced
The government tries to corporatise local council assets and services (this one is being worked on at the Department of Internal Affairs right now, I’ve been told by a friend)
When Mihingarangi was on the show it was a much better and higher quality show with some great interviews and informative coverage. When she left and the two new commentators came, it all changed to a slick ( Fox News ) style boring show like so many others. Mihingarangi was fantastic and the show back when was well worth looking at but we stopped watching the new show months ago as I am sure many others did as well.
Shorter and sharper shows ? ? ? Sounds like a backward move and continued loss of audience and support. Also – to the Maori Channel – if you want to increase your listeners, we believe you need to think about having english captions on all Te Reo shows so as to encourage non Maori speaking people to learn and appreciate all that you offer. Many just turn off your shows that are solely in Te Reo and not with english captions and that is a shame when many of us want to learn more about the Maori culture but have no desire to learn to speak Maori.
The captions also are a great help to those who have learned some Maori, but have not yet made fluency.
Neutered Affairs is the new title of the show, and I know what happened, it is stuff that usually only happens in dictatorships, so others left and sought refuge in Radio NZ, now called RNZ, but there is no safety there either, to report the truth, as I notice every day listening to it. The Midday Report, Checkpoint, and other previously cherished hard nails programs are a dismal shade of what they used to be. The dictatorship of commerce, their vested interest players, lobbyists and the present government’s servants are working, they see to it, that you will onlly learn what you are supposed to learn. And today I even learned, how the useless Ombudsman released a white wash report on the OIA situation, lamented by so many, it is according to government friendly Beverley Wakem not such a big issue.
FFS, we live in a damned banana republic, if not a dictatorship so good on AAAP to be among the few that dare speak out and say how it is. Shame on NZ, shame on the collaborators, facilitators and silly fools upholding the status quo.
Investigative Journalism has been put to sleep in this country.
Whenever I hear the term “audience driven” or “customer focused”, I hang on to my wallet, ‘cos sure as evolution made li’l green apples, someone is about to lose the shirt of their back.
The slow, covert degrading of our msm news/current affairs programmes continues.
Someone at Maori TV feels threatened by investigative journalism.
Where all just parrots on Murdochs shoulders
Government under the Chief Propagandist commander Steven Joyce of the infamous MBIE Ministry, is deliberately euthanizing the forth estate now for sure like Hitler did.
Martyn is coming to the rescue with the “Fifth Estate” that cant be bought off or destroyed.
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