Mark Jennings final casualty of MediaWorks news self-mutilation
And so it comes to pass, Mark Jennings, the legendary news boss has finally fallen and been pushed out…
Mark Jennings leaving MediaWorks
MediaWorks has announced head of news Mark Jennings is leaving the company.
Newshub reported Mr Jennings would be leaving after 27 years of service at MediaWorks.
Group chief executive MediaWorks, Mark Weldon, told the channel: “Over 25 years of leadership of TV3 News, Mark has made a major and lasting contribution to NZ journalism and wider NZ society.
“I personally have greatly enjoyed working with Mark.
…sure you did Weldon. As TDB pointed out in October last year…
By denying the fact that ethical news consumers have boycotted a network for political interference into real fourth estate journalism, TV3 Management don’t have to have their role and real reasons for killing off Campbell Live scrutinised. Instead it’s all to blame for some other mystical reason.
This need to avoid real investigation into their motives for knifing Campbell Live has risen all the way to Oaktree, the American vulture fund who owns Mediaworks. Recently Oaktree demanded someone from TV3 Management turn up in Europe and explain what the bloody hell is going on with their assets and why these recent changes have melted down ratings. One would have thought that someone from the TV3 Management team who was actually behind the politically motivated move to end a current affairs show that was embarrassing the Government would have been sent to explain to MediaWorks Corporate Overlords the momentual cock up that has occurred.
That didn’t happen.
Sources to TDB via the Tip Line say that poor old Mark Jennings, the head of news and current affairs was sent to explain things to Oaktree rather than the Management team who decided to gut Campbell Live. So weak was Mark’s explanation for the ratings meltdown that Oaktree sent a corporate shadow from Britain to follow Jennings around and now as Jennings walks around and does his day to day tasks, this Oaktree shadow follows him listening to everything.
…Jennings was set up as the fall guy to explain the ratings and revenue meltdown at TV3 rather than Management.
Jennings final warning to staff doesn’t bode well…
…a tsunami of change? Sounds like the final demise of a once proud and independent news service.
Our democracy will be the poorer for this.
And all those insipid Tory dollies and their even more insipid chaps will still languidly sip their cocktails and not notice that another democratic right has been taken away from New Zealanders. This really is the thick edge of the wedge into this Dictatorship we live under currently in New Zealand. It’s an absolute disgrace… But are there enough of us concerned at what is happening here to make a difference and demand a change… Well there’s Martyn B, myself and ?????
Keep the boycott going. From people power large Oaktrees wither.
Of course Mark Jennings is not the final casualty of MediaWorks news self-mutilation.
We are all the final casualties.
“Group chief executive MediaWorks, Mark Weldon, told the channel: “Over 25 years of leadership of TV3 News, Mark has made a major and lasting contribution to NZ journalism and wider NZ society.
“I personally have greatly enjoyed working with Mark.
Dear oh dear, that is as insincere a eulogy as you will ever read. Well Jennings did all of that at one point I guess, well before you and the National Party took over.
TV3 is now pointless, and worse still utterly irrelevant so it may as well be dead. But Oaktree can’t be too unhappy, they reappointed Weldon for another year. I wonder why that really is?
Pity these long toothed News staff didn’t open up years ago as to how they are told what to do and say, as we all knew it but we need to hear them say it now.
More bloodletting will go on until the whole rotten MSM is just a hollow vessel trumpeted from afar in high places where the elite plot our demise.
It is all to do with…
[1] The dumb down audience who are content with dumbed-down programmes.
[2] Corporate and political control of democracy, people and society through controlled news, journalists, PR and media.
And out of TV3’s demise comes….the 5th estate.
Sometimes good does come from bad.