With the network on its last legs, Mark Weldon should just go all in and make the channel the Fox News he wants it to be.
The quality of news media at stuff and NZ Herald have managed to get worse as every month passes. The clickbait rules that the journalists now have to play by have denigrated news to a pitiful level and there seems to be very little pushback.
TVNZ can’t be surprised that Paul Henry was devouring their ratings. in comparison to frumpy old Breakfast on TVNZ, the Paul Henry Show had a beating heart and personality.
People need to believe that the journalist is on their side, not the side of the powerful. MediaWorks, being a former business once owned by Steven Joyce, simply became too close to the people they were supposed to be watching on our behalf for viewers to ever trust again.
Many who were attached to Campbell Live forgave TV3 because Hillary was still there, but with her gone, watch for the next ratings collapse in News and on Paul Henry’s show.
Labour are at 28% in the last TVNZ poll, with an election still 18months away this is pretty much meaningless and with a mainstream media so stacked against Labour, it’s surprising National aren’t 95% in the polls.
Alarmist New Zealand Herald headlines condemned a Housing New Zealand tenant for taking in boarders.
This week The Paul Henry show had Don Brash and Amber Peebles on their panel, with all due respect but a root canal with rusty tools would be more preferable than listening to that.
The manner in which ‘news’ in NZ has descended into click bait using social media as the source is lazy, vacuous and under funded journalism at best, but allowing a crypto-facist who’s been on his best behaviour while under numerous legal defamation cases to once again lead the mainstream media is dangerous.
A station that gets 35 million in taxpayers funding now not only doesn’t have one Maori presenter in prime time but it doesn’t have any Maori news.