Posts by Damian Christie
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I meant publicly.
Right, so rather than doing what Megan suggests, and recognising vaid criticism, taking it on board and adapting to it - essentially bettering the medium - you'd just rather it was read out on air.
Why not just bring back the stocks?
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Yeah? I'm not very familiar with this criticism. I do know some people who work there are lefties. But I know a few of those at TVNZ too...
You obviously don't spend much time with righties, it's a favoured topic. And it was a few years ago now, but remember Deborah Coddington's 'report' into RNZ? My point is, no-one ever criticises any other organisation for being 'left wing', so it's not surprising that it's held up in PAS as being the 'only good one'.
See, I question that it's a budget issue. Does the TVNZ news arm have more or less money than the RNZ news arm? Okay, I get it has to produce pictures and that it's more expensive, but it also pays much higher salaries to its newsreaders
One is commercial. One isn't. Stop expecting TVNZ to be the BBC, until it receives $10b in funding, rather than returning a dividend to the taxpayer.
but it does have , has had , large government assistence.We built it, trained its broadcasters and funded its programmes.
I don't understand this argument. Historically yes. These days the news and current affairs department is self-funding, that is, commercially funded. Not one of the broadcasters I see on TV these days other than Peter Williams received any training when it was Government funded. I'm not being deliberately vague here, I really don't see what your point is. You as a taxpayer do not pay for the news on TVNZ. Which, by all accounts, you should be pleased about.
...Anyway, I'm outta here, Russ and I have a radio show to do.
Last fucking time I blog about the media :)
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But what I can point you to is how every second person who meets me, and finds out what I do, feels free to criticise my job, my organisation, and my industry.
Amen. Even when I check in at Air New Zealand, the woman behind the counter decides it's appropriate to tell me what bugs her (in this case it was someone calling the PM by his first name).
If we're going to get back to basics - I think TV news and current affairs could be improved in any number of ways. Adding a hundred million people to our population wouldn't hurt. If you want a service like the BBC offers it's going to cost about $10 billion per year, give or take.
I don't know whether this is a good analogy or not, but I compare the food we get here vs bigger cities overseas. The choice is extremely limited - a quick trip to the markets in Melbourne showed me that. Is that because the people who work in the industry here are lazy, arrogant or what have you, or simply because we only have so much population, so much investment, *and* need to return a profit on what we produce?
That's not to say there aren't bad decisions being made, but I'd blame the commercial model and the demands it creates first.
Just down the road from me a retail space recently came up for rent. A few friends thought it would be great if someone opened a decent cafe with yummy wholesome food. The signs have just gone up - it's another KFC. True story.
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It seems to me that the only outlet that is coming under actual attack is the only one that does a good job - RNZ.
Ironically the only one consistently criticised - and IMO not completely without merit - for being a bastion of the left.
But yes, RNZ does solid work. But while we're talking about breakfast show bullies...
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where is the pas love? Bart has some logic there guys , henry wants (ed) to be a bully and we the taxpayer fund him in his dream, qualified by the ad revenue supplement that is mawning breakfast , presenting to an audience with no alternative but to switch the bugger off.
Let's not let the facts get in the way Jeremy... like:
a) Breakfast makes lots of money for TVNZ. It more than stands on its own.
b) TVNZ is not taxpayer-funded, it is actually forced to return a dividend to the Government (something most media companies have been unable to do in recent years). Some programmes do receive NZ On Air Funding, Breakfast is not one of them.
c) There was an alternative. It was called Sunrise. It rated awfully. Something like a 10th the audience of Breakfast.
d) Switching off is a very real alternative, it's not like Breakfast TV is some human right. There's some radio out there too... or the internet if you're really stretched.
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For the record, I haven't really met Paul Henry, and my brief encounters with him have been unremarkable. They certainly didn't endear him to me.
Therefore my enjoyment of him on television is if anything slightly reduced by my personal experience. And I still enjoy him. But apparently I'm 'wrong'. When I say I think he's a talented broadcaster, that isn't some insider speak. That means I think he is, when he is at his best, thoughtful, intelligent, charistmatic, quick and witty. This is my perception. Others don't agree, I accept that, and I also accept that he is not always so.
If he were given a role such as hosting a more primetime current affairs show, I think we'd see a lot more of that, and less of the boredom-induced childish musing we get from him at the moment.
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Bart - I didn't mean to be glib, but honestly I despair sometimes.
Did you actually view this morning's comment on the source of the cat wee smell, before proclaiming it a textbook example of workplace bullying? Or did you just assume?
Because I did see it, hence my original comment: that it was childish but otherwise not offensive. To link it in one step to suicide is, I believe, melodramatic in the extreme. Hence why I say, lighten up. It was a comment about cat wees, and how his co-host WAS NOT the source of it, nor was she every likely to be.
(Sorry, posted at the same time as Russell's comments above - yup, what he said)
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Although maybe my perception is skewed, because this industry is filled with arseholes who yell at you and call you a f***ing useless prick if you fail to deliver a story they want. So having someone say you smell like wee for the purposes of on-air humour doesn't really rate.
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@Bart - lighten up. Seriously. Did you see it? I assume not. He said he wondered if it was Ali and then realised that Ali was pretty much the last person who would ever smell like cat wee. It was childish, but I don't think anyone felt bullied. Certainly not Ali. But I can ask her if you like.
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Yes, where is the PAS discussion of NZ's All Time Number One movie?
Right here: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,2444,cracker-about-a-boy.sm