Things that don't make mainstream NZ news...

Things that don't make mainstream NZ news...

Dated 25/09/2010  - dairyflat2010-09-26 14:11:55

Keep ya pants on, haven't had the 6pm news yet.

It only arrived on the BBC at about 1am last night (I was watching :))

Your quote is somewhat misleading. They had to open the dams before they fell over.

Katy Perry's taped performance for "Sesame Street," which was released to YouTube earlier this week and drew complaints from parents because of the pop star's visible cleavage, no longer will air on the children's show, creator Sesame Workshop said Thursday morning.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16156446?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

dairyflat2010-09-26 14:55:10

Key thing in that DF is that its Radio NZ, not Radio Nigeria, a flood in africa doesn't really affect NZ - which is why you'll hear more about the comm games than some flood in Africa.

It is the 'western' thing to do. Not surprised, I think people here are more interested in other things than that which is saddening.

Following your logic we should demote events (take the Christchurch earthquake which killed 0) and instead report on the latest apartment fire in New York which killed 20?

And now thanks to Azevo I'm being criticised for caring about news relative to myself? Seriously?

Dairyflats titles are often misleading.

Millions are starving in the world,we should abandon all local news and just have starving and/or displaced people from every different country on the news.

Good plan,I mean we aren't good people if we don't care enough to have or watch a news article on it.

Sports news is also pretty shallow,who has time to indulge themselves in seeing what's going on in world sport when somewhere a child has become an orphan.

We're all pathetic and shallow.

dairyflat2010-09-26 19:49:56

we hardly cover local news in depth as well
the liberalization of the media ownership laws have, like all forms of privatization, been a disaster for the working class.
Bob Parker should be mayor because he's done so well in the earthquake

Reporters based in New Zealand focus almost solely on stories in New Zealand. World stories are almost entirely pulled off the wire, or taken from international news outlets. Many media do of course have reporters abroad, but these are for the most part in Australia, the US, and Europe. If a massive story breaks elsewhere, then they will be sent there, but I'd be surprised if a New Zealand news organisation had a reporter based in Africa.

Quite often the way international stories are covered is by looking at how New Zealand is affected. With few ties to the African continent, New Zealanders are not as interested in Africa as other parts of the world. Also people are somewhat African disaster fatigued, they struggle to follow which coup/drought/flood/famine/conflict is which.

At the end of the day, reporters will endevour to give people the news they want. There is no reason in writing stories no one will read, especially when resources are already stressed. Local news always triumphs with consumers and so will deserve the most attention from reporters.

Shallow HAL?

You're right actually. Bout time our news learns how not to report constantly into left-wing interests.

That's well put. I dont completely agree,but can definitely see your thinking,and you can't really argue it.

The only reason I say I dont completely agree is because I tend to think the mainstream news shows what people are interested in. So I guess I'm saying the people are 'shallow'. Except that I disagree with the fact that we have to be interested in such things,it makes sense that the earthquake would be of more interest to me than Nigeria,and to say that is shallow is pretty harsh.

I'm not arguing what you said at all. We're both right,just looking at it from different angles haha.

How is this so? I hear it forever spouted, but never backed up. Considering the columnists employed by most newsrooms arguably the opposite is true.

Trust me on this one, after growing up in Auckland, and living in the United States for the last two years, New Zealand does a much better job of it than the United States does. I'd definitely get a much broader perspective reading the New Zealand Herald than, say, the Los Angeles Times (possibly a bad example, but you get the idea).

Is it broad enough? That's an opinionated matter really. But, NZ's local media give a broader viewpoint on things than America's local media does, if you ask me.

Given the availability of all the different outlets on the web (for those with access to the web), isn't NZ's journalistic parochialism a bit of a moot point these days?HarryHotspur2010-09-26 21:25:16

Very true, if some major event happened somewhere and I wanted to read about it, I'd read the local news source about it.

For similar reasons, I don't search for AFL news on ESPN, as an example.

Tickle me Katy.

One of the drawbacks of the bairns getting older is that I can't watch Hi-5 anymore.

You still can

It would be just wrong now.

(and Kathleen and Charlie have gone i think)

According to Wikipedia, all the originals have gone. My fav was Charlie. Kelly posed for a men's mag like FHM or something like that.

KellieWongo2010-09-27 23:09:15

'scuse me while I go and throw a possum or two.

 

Junior822010-09-28 12:34:16

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2EECoOQ7m50STMseDztvvCtol2A


The scale of events like this is unreal....

Don't worry Cos, you know I'm always happy to throw a possum or two with you

 

Do you throw your own or swap?

Whatever Cos wants

I see that the stuff in  DF's OP never did make the news