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The great finance company crash mystery.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The great finance company crash mystery.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I continue to puzzle over the treatment, mostly mediawise, being given to the great NZ finance company crash. You could easily be unaware it has happened. Where are the blazing headlines? Where's the indepth analsysis in leading stories on television news? Where are the spcial investigations?
Aside from the odd gripe about what amounts to two court cases everything is strangely quiet...
 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
They're too busy pursuing Terry Serepisos for things he hasn't actually done that don't actually affect anybody. Oh, and disguising themselves as homeless people in order to take advantage of kind-hearted Wellington folk and reveal the amazing insight that "being homeless isn't very nice".

Much easier than any serious investigative journalism. That would require a time-consuming combination of facts, research, analysis and standards.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think that's a bit unfair on the Herald, they have covered it in a lot of detail, bot reporting on the court cases and also general comment on the industry in general.
 
Stuff have barely cvered it in any great detail.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tbf, I couldn't care less. People took a risk (investing) and lost. Meh.Michael2010-05-27 22:42:33
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Pretty much sums it up. People aren't that interested in it. Because it is not that interesting.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
dairyflat wrote:
Where are the blazing headlines? Where's the indepth analsysis in leading stories on television news? Where are the spcial investigations?
 
 
two of those statements are actually impossible for the media in NZ to achieve, if you lowered your expections to surface coverage and some light discussion you'd be less dissapointed.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
theprof wrote:
 
two of those statements are actually impossible for the media in NZ to achieve, if you lowered your expections to surface coverage and some light discussion you'd be less dissapointed.
 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Arsenal wrote:
Pretty much sums it up. People aren't that interested in it. Because it is not that interesting.
 
That sounds just so apathetic.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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