National State of Emergency declared – TVNZ keeps broadcasting a cheap British TV game show

ByMartyn Bradbury

For only the 3rd time in our history, NZ has declared a National State of Emergency.

The damage caused by Cyclone Gabriel is only now being realised after many criticised the elevated warnings.

We still have a day of damaging weather in front of us but what can be said is that life threatening events are occurring now with people on roofs and entire communities cut off.

This is likely to be an enormously damaging and dangerous weather event, driven by the Cyclone’s historically low hectoPascals.

As we struggle to comprehend the damage, it is embarrassing that the public broadcaster
TVNZ has continued with their normal programming while The AM Show on a private network keeps broadcasting coverage of this National State of Emergency.

Someone at TVNZ Management needs sacking.

This is a disgraceful lack of leadership by the public broadcaster.

 

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22 Comments

  1. For the first time in literally decades I turned on the TV to listen to the breakfast shows. Flicking between channels, TV3 was miles better: On the scene and more relevant.

  3. “Someone at TVNZ Management needs sacking”
    More likely 3 or 4 people at TVNZ need sacking.

    At one point, they did put up a banner, which is only slightly better than relying on international broadcasters as they did several years ago. Then they tried to blame the BBC’s Nik Gowing.

    Now watch them try and spin and bullshit their way out of it.
    I guess the newsroom star autocue readers were all out being interviewed by the Woman’s Weekly

  4. Actually confronting the reality of being a public broadcaster in NZ/Ao would be akin to the top bananas in TVNZ to going out in the street in an old raincoat, flashing. ‘We’ they all agree ‘do not do that sort of thing’.

      1. And TVNZ is NOT the state. It is a nasty, crappy little imitation of a private, market-led entity. And it has all the worst features of a private entity. What do you expect when you put a man from the bloody marketing industry in charge of it all?
        TVNZ needs to be restored to the quality state broadcaster that it used to be 40 years ago. The last thing it needs is to be sold off: it already behaves as if it had been.

  6. There is a good case to make to the public for improving public broadcasting. Unfortunately Labour have given the portfolio to ministers who have failed completely to make the case for it. Curran was sacked and Faafoi had completely checked out of all of his ministerial positions. By the time it got to Jackson it was too late, the window had closed and little effort had been made to convince people it would be of benefit.

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