Can NZs light weight casual current affairs survive a pandemic?

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It’s funny watching the light weight casual current affairs offerings that the deregulated infotainment industry of NZ vomit up with glee struggle to try & cover something as serious as a pandemic.

It’s like Mickey Mouse trying to present a TEDtalk on sex trafficking, testicular cancer and favourite Birthday cakes.

Our celebrated laid back casual demeanour is always held up as evidence of our fabled relaxed egalitarian attitude to authority when in reality it’s an anti-intellectual so-you-think-you’re-smarer-than-me low imagination horizon threshold.

Disruption from endless focus on things that don’t make you think will cause panic to the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind so the alters of lite entertainment at 7pm will continue to endlessly churn out mindless banter and niceties that people with private education positively chirp at one another during shallow charity fundraisers.

We don’t have journalists we trust to tell us the news anymore, we have hosts we like telling us things that won’t make us turn off the channel.

 

 

9 COMMENTS

  1. I stopped watching all NZ news / current affairs tripe years ago, wouldnt even recognise these “hosts” at a cafe let alone listen to their bs. I stopped watching their banality as I could see straight through the dressing up, dumbing down and generally look at me and how pretty I am dribble that is churned out by TVNZ and the other one. Also, all the reality tv just really put me off watching NZ tv, endless cooking shows and talent shows yuck.

  2. If you’ve ever wondered what plunging corkscrews into your eyes would feel like, just watch TV1 and TV3. Utter crap. On very rare occasions a watchable current events program, documentary, drama or movie or will appear on these channels, but life is too short to wait for this lot to curate media when a billion hours is available online. What is especially frustrating is this stupid game the networks play in the weekends when they broadcast watchable movies all at the same time slot. They could instead all work together to share air space and not be facing television extinction because of their zero sum greed. And TV2 can take their reality shows and f¥€£ themselves.

  3. GLOSSARY.
    Seven Sharp: an oxymoron
    Mike Hosking: an oxygen starved moron
    The Project(ile Vomit): reflexive response to cringeworthy media mashup

    Alas, that golden half hour, just after the Infotainment Propaganda Hour that we used to call “the News”, is wasted.
    That one chance to actually inform/educate/enlighten Neo Zealanders before they disengage from their TV trays and shuffle to their dishwasher/kitchen sink, is given over to clowns without (a) the clown suits and (b) the talent for genuine humour anyway.

    Oh well. Anyone for Celebrity Bachelorette Bakeoff Island?

  4. Theyre no longer called or meant to be journalists. Theyre ‘news influencers’!
    Creative news stories presented in a kumbyah non specific pointless way. Designed not to offend or mean anything to anyone or anybody. Its ‘news’ that just is.

  5. Our news “services” have been counter-productive around the coronavirus issue. Half their audience is induced into a state of panic while the other half ceases to take their announcement seriously – leading to people who don’t take their 2 week quarantine seriously either.

    I found the first decent report about the caronavirus on a ‘fringe’ news site (one of the ones that google put on it’s fake news list) and then the next piece of useful info was found on social media. 2 days later I noticed the MSM has caught up with the idea of “flattening the curve” and was finally starting to behave like a good citizen rather than amping up the clickbait.

  6. If at all possible, I go to the source itself – live news conferences are best; Parliament at Question Time is a lame second (although, for me, that’s also continuing confirmation why I never voted for those muppets now in Opposition).
    For ‘distortion, half-truths, propaganda and bias’ the undoubted winner by a wide margin is TV3 Breakfast where sometime cricketer Richardson sneers and jeers his way through the morning, and host and one-time ‘journalist’ Garner is guilty every morning of the above four descriptions (thank God he’s no longer writing his syndicated newspaper column).
    Sadly, NZ is poorly served with many of the current crop of so-called journalists.

  7. For the first 3 weeks of the outbreak, all the MSM seem to have were articles about how racist it all was to do any attempt to stem the pandemic and medical experts like Lance O’Sullivan (from China) telling us that it was nothing to worry about.

    MSM and experts wasted time on rubbish rather than telling people what to do to contain the virus aka safe distances, close the border, avoid unnecessary contact, how to get help if you feel unwell etc by not going into medical centres.

    MSM did their usual brain washing and woke thought control approach instead of real news, to tell people that somewhere, someone was being racist to someone else, and money could be lost in the economy, and that was more important than potentially saving hundreds of (possibly thousands) of lives about to die from a potential pandemic, with real information.

    South Korea had high numbers of effected people but got a lot more on top of it than other countries by the sound of it by taking it very seriously. We never heard about what other countries were doing, just the usual Trump and Boris side show of doing and pretending nothing was happening, like NZ.

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