The Project last night was juggling between the euthanasia debate and a cheated wife from Married At First Sight.
The tiny slither of 3 questions each between Bill English and David Seymour and then onto the machinations of infidelity from MAFS???
This is current affairs in NZ today.
This is why we can’t have nice things folks.
This is the reason why most NZers have no real concept of what the fuck is happening in their own country or why.
I wonder if Patrick Gower ever looks in the mirror these days and cries?
I’m not sure what is sadder, that this ultimately replaced Campbell Live or that they actually manage to get a room full of New Zealanders to cheer the show on each week night.
I’m not even going to start with Seven Sharp, because I don’t know what the bloody hell that show actually is.
Jeremy calmly makes some straight faced glib sexual innuendo straight to camera, Hillary rolls her eyes, snorts then giggles and I die a little bit inside.
It looks like it’s filmed from inside TVNZs womb.
How has shallow infotainment replaced actual thinking and adults discussing issues of genuine importance and what does that do long term to the quality of our democracy?
I watched Maggie Barry wax on enthusiastically about her 35 years in the marvellous pallitative care industry, and how well Kiwis were looked after. Then I read about Ruby Hill in the NZHerald about how she had been refused pallitative care and was sent home to die and starve to death. How marvellous we really are! We can only hope the Euthanasia bill passes!!!
Maggie always fails to state that her views on euthanasia (and abortion) are shaped by her strongly held Catholic beliefs. I’m not sure why she never mentions this if she’s got nothing to hide.
Maggie B denied on Q& A Monday night that her anti-euthanasia stance was due to any religious aspect. Anyone with a moral compass can see that the individual should have the right to choose how and when they die
It seems like The Project is the ‘journalistic’ wing of the tv3 comedy stable, along with the equally terrible Ben & John, 7 days & Family Feud. If it is supposed to be eliciting contempt for non funny comedians from Auckland regurgitating tired scripts, the show is a success.
Hear, hear. I also hate to break it to you, but the same is happening in children education here… critical thinking is discouraged, classroom ‘behaviour’ is the number one thing.
Government money is a plenty for construction of new classrooms to cram more kids in, (now they are encouraged to have around 60 kids in each space with a ‘shared’ model of teacher ratio). The school gets free stuff if the school agrees to it, traditional models don’t get the free stuff.. so it is not about the best education but bribing the schools to take up the new model of classroom management.
The reality is this just means that teachers don’t need to take any responsibility anymore for individual kids as each day a child might have 5 or 6 different teachers in a ‘shared’ model.
The teaching resources are crap, bits of poorly photocopies bits of papers with size 12 fonts (saving photo copying money) from what looks like US books?? Or they just play games with the teacher spending time on administration and classroom management any any one time, as the kids start rebelling and going crazy with the sloppy materials put before them and lack of actual interesting input and feedback!
The social experiment continues with Rogernomics, now it has reached the pathetic learning resources made up of ‘sheets’ and ‘games’ and few outputs encouraged, with everything but the actual teaching being of upmost importance.
The money is spent on ‘big’ items like class rooms but when you look at the resources for the kids they are the lowest budget you can see and taught in an odd, confused way, that the ministry deems appropriate.
Each day another kid goes crazy with 6 hours of nothingness, but apparently it is all due to the ‘behaviour’ and it’s the child’s fault!
One 9 yo can’t even spell 3 letter words, can barely read and has no numeracy, and hard to work out what sort of future you will have if you are at that level and off to secondary in a few years!
Our international scores are in free fall downwards.
The NZ teaching ideas seem to be that ‘teachers are facilities’ of learning. Content and structure are unimportant. If the kid doesn’t want to learn or can’t from the new ‘confusing’ methods, it is their fault, a lack of resource or someone else problem. The parents are then expected to fill the gaping equational holes, in between their full time jobs.
It is not the teachers or the schools, it is the neoliberal experiment in NZ which is all about bums on seats, not actually learning outcomes and getting ALL the children up to an acceptable standard like in the 1970’s when we led the world in literacy!
Other countries have gone forward in education, in NZ we have gone backwards!
Like our now ‘lazy drugged out’ workforce, carefully created with the Sroubeks of the world getting residency here from jail for drug importation and our politicians who seem to hate their own nationals these days.
Who cares about the kids who get hooked up drugs and suffer mental illness from he social experiments heaped on them.
Some fine words, there , chap.
It’s all about ratings. Advertisers only care about the key 18-34 year old demographic: it is the only demographic that simultaneously have a disposal income and are still susceptible to advertisements. In the age of YouTube and Netflix, only reality shows and infotainment offer anything of “value” to these folks, which is why those shows are popular. Pop culture in 2019 essentially consists entirely of memes, reality TV, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. The Project is simply mining the dregs of what people care about.
Prediction – Network TV (i.e. TVNZ, TV3 etc) will be nearly completely obsolete in ~5 years with ratings in the “key demographic” on all channels an effective zero. Relatively expensive shows to produce (given the salaries of the hosts) like Breakfast, The AM Show, Seven Sharp and The Project won’t survive the fallout.
Television:
1. Earn revenue through showing ads.
2. Provide content to support 1.
This dumbing down approach to everything is a worldwide phenomenon.
It started in the states where they have to communicate the news as if their audience are all at preschool level.
Now most of the corporate news services take the same approach , they talk to us like i used to when my kids were aged 3-6 then they began to think for themselves.
I have not watched current affairs at 7 pm or any other time because it is utter crap.
I did tune in to seven sharp during coverage of the terrorist attack here in Christchurch and John Campbell did an excellent job as usual.
If you want to be informed and educated these days we have to turn to the net for real life stories and analysis.
Our television current affairs is a reflection of our society in general , out of touch , ignorant and facile.
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