Radio NZ ratings and what does it need to do to satisfy National Party philosophy of success?
Radio nz ratings are out and they are huge…
…yet the National Party continues funding freeze on Radio NZ.
Why?
This is the political Party who champions individual success and claims that the market will righteously reward those who succeed, yet they won’t apply the basic principles of their own political philosophy to a State owned Radio station who is taking on the private players and beating them.
The reason of course is because the National Party hate having a watch dog that still has teeth.
The National Government would prefer to ignore their own political principles to continue slowly suffocating one of the last bastions of the Fourth Estate.
Surely a decade of this kind of self interested corruption needs to come to an end in September?
They would improve Morning Report by replacing both presenters, neither Ferguson nor Espiner have the intelligence to be effective, subtle, impartial interviewers – all noise and no light. In an election year especially, listeners expect more than silly repetitive shouting. There must be people out there who could do better.
Ferguson is a muppet and Espiner a puppet.
still they are better than private radio stations
Maybe Morning Report could bring back that impartial flag supporting wanker Plunket …. not
He at least was an obvious Key arse licker
yep, good on RNZ for pounding the likes of “Key Love” Club founder, and life President, Hosking, into ratings dust
they have laid off many old time staff and those that remain are suffering under an oppressive sinking lid, the RNZ web site has been updated and is a reasonable news source, but unrecompensed younger staff dedication cannot be expected to last for too much longer (which is what the torys want I guess, starve them into submission)
time to reinvigorate “Save RNZ!”
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Kim Hill remains for me the best interviewer to have presented on Morning Report. I will never forget her “that was a bit silly Prime Minister” to John Key. He had no comeback!
This is the standard they’re competing against – it’s no surprise they’re doing well…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/video.cfm?c_id=466&gal_cid=466&gallery_id=175832
While I am critical of RNZ at times, at least they report a lot of news that matter, but which other radio or TV media never report on.
For that very reason it offers better service overall and better quality service. Consequently they deserve to get a boost.
The reason for the government’s tight purse police on RNZ is of course, that the government would rather not have RNZ report such things as this:
‘Emergency housing providers instructed not to talk to media’:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201843510/emergency-housing-providers-instructed-not-to-talk-to-media
“The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has apologised to emergency housing groups after one of its managers tried to gag them from speaking to the media.”
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