Hard News: Presentation and Reality
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“…I do believe that if Labour had a dashing leader who attracted young women at the races, you would see an equivalent story…”
Stuart Nash and Jacinda Ardern as the red dreamboat team for 2014, perhaps? Has our political journalism really come to that? Actually, that is a rhetorical question. When I saw the the subject for this episode of Media7 I laughed, because it seems to me completely pointless to have an episode examining the actions of a corpse.
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National hits back at Goff's 'vital statistics'
Call that hitting back? "its rubbish"
that is more like the petulant tantrum of a two year old. If the Prime Minister had any concrete evidence he would have used it then but he has nothing.
Newspapers and media in general are all about advertising revenue and are slaves to their own polls and surveys, they want to be seen as being on the "winning" side, so the process corrupts itself.
You can find unbiased and well researched items but they tend to be followed by the line "the opinions expressed in this article are not those of this newspapers owners, so should be ignored", or something along those lines. -
The Harold headlines are certainly biased - but that's the subeditors, not the journos, isn't it?
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
– but that’s the subeditors . . .
Do they still have those?
Anyway, for the not-so-Bieberfeverish, from the Saturday before last's container mall event, the non-smiling assasin. -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
but that’s the subeditors,
Who are subcontracted out to Pagemakers in Australia.
Think about that for a while. -
Sacha, in reply to
discussed hereabouts for many years now
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According to the Prime Minister we only read the headlines anyway.
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Present and real...
Watch YU55 fly by live at SLOOH or live from Keck Observatory in about 40 minutes (it's 2.18pm now)...
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the PACWAV 11 tsunami exercise is on tomorrow as is the FCC's Emergency Broadcast test which will usurp control of all US media...
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The Granny finally publishes Goff's Top 10... but still framed around Key rather than Goff.
The wider issue is that not everyone has the attention spans that we do, in order to sort the wheat from the chaff. When you're working 55+ hour working weeks just to buy that magical plastic item on TV, so as not to be ridiculed by your neighbours for looking 'backward', you certainly wouldn't.
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merc,
And http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/campaign-trail/5935507/Labour-lays-it-on-National-with-another-list
The framing is awesome. -
DCBCauchi, in reply to
If only we'd grabbed a chance, we wouldn't be sorry for a might-have-been.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
The framing is awesome.
A nice guilt frame always displays well.
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Sacha, in reply to
Key says he is not worried about Cunliffe's latest smear attempt
Of course he's not. No one is confronting him effectively with simple messages around the recent downgrades, for instance. Waffle is easily deflected.
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The Granny finally publishes Goff's Top 10... but still framed around Key rather than Goff.
I don't see why The Herald or any other paper is obligated to reprint the entirety of any list that Phil Goff or anyone else comes up with. That would make them the mouthpiece of Labour, not National. I hope they pick and choose what they print throughout the campaign.
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JacksonP, in reply to
I hope they pick and choose what they print throughout the campaign.
Oh don't worry, they are. Like this tripe. Although at least in the online version they don't link to the poll in question, as they do in the print version.
Careful what you wish for.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Like this tripe
Oh, gods. Firstly, ewww! Secondly, WTF?!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I don’t see why The Herald or any other paper is obligated to reprint the entirety of any list that Phil Goff or anyone else comes up with. That would make them the mouthpiece of Labour, not National. I hope they pick and choose what they print throughout the campaign.
I think the odd thing was that they headlined the story with the “top 10 points” or whatever, then the story spent quite a few words waffling and not delivering on the headline. I felt badly served as a reader,
You don’t have the publish the list as gospel – indeed, you clearly shouldn’t – but it’s worth acknowledging all the claims. Ideally, you’d also seek to verify them, as a service to your readers. Simon Collins did so with the emigration to Australia claim – which turned out to be true – but the rest of it sort of disappeared. It was really pretty poor.
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merc,
It's got so bad I'm numbed already, nothing, not even John at the prawn farm affects me now.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Simon Collins did so with the emigration to Australia claim – which turned out to be true – but the rest of it sort of disappeared. It was really pretty poor.
And right now the PSA union, of all people, is raising the issue. Not sure how much traction it’s getting.
Even the Granny is starting to smell something.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
It's got so bad I'm numbed already, nothing, not even John at the prawn farm affects me now.
Does the word 'poseur' come to mind?
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
It’s got so bad I’m numbed already, nothing,
Yeah, well. I left England to escape the ravages of Thatcher, people leave their homes because it is no longer Home.
When I came here we had a Labour Government, 1986…
Labour is better now. Shit, in 1984 they had to clean up after the previous National Government and what happened? We needed money... apparently. So we sold the family silver and Douglas mad some new pals that were worth more than his family history .
Do I have to leave here now because NZ has just caught up with Thatcher?While it is on my mind...
ACT, apparently, is an acronym for Association of Consumers and Tax payers. Not a very good acronym but hey, they ain't that bright.
Consumption used to have a different name -
The second part of this week's show will also be worth catching. Sarah Daniell interviews sociologist and former fashion model Ashley Mears on how the media fawn over fashionistas and miss the real, more troubling, stories in the industry.
The troubling part of the story was watching Amanda Bansgrove spinning the whitewashing of fashion media/advertising with a poker face. So, non-white models are fabulous but they've got to have "the right look" - which, surprise, just happens to be remarkably similar to a tall, underweight Pakeha teenager. Thanks for putting my mind at rest, Mandy - I couldn't have said that straight-faced without fresh botox.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Thanks for putting my mind at rest, Mandy - I couldn't have said that straight-faced without fresh botox.
Absolutely Fabulous....
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Do I have to leave here now because NZ has just caught up with Thatcher?
More Dubya than Thatcher I reckon.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
So, non-white models are fabulous but they've got to have "the right look" - which, surprise, just happens to be remarkably similar to a tall, underweight Pakeha teenager. Thanks for putting my mind at rest, Mandy - I couldn't have said that straight-faced without fresh botox
Classic case of But Not Too Black. (Surgeon General's Warning; may be hazardous to your productivity.)
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