This country has its priorities all wrong

This country has its priorities all wrong

I've just watched TV1 news, or most of it. The lead story in the whole bulletin - not just Sport - was about some All Black t**ser - who I've never heard of - not getting kicked out of the team, or something similar. It was all to do with him getting pissed and doing something stupid.

TV3 is pretty bad as well, I avoid both these days. Prime isn't so bad given it's only 30 minutes so they tend to put the most important stuff in but its not great.

Almost ALL media in NZ is far beyond the south side of sh*t. My mum just got back from Montreal and commented on how fantastic their news was in Canada, with genuine experts giving opinion (not just quoting whichever minister is involved with a particular issue) and also making free comment on the politics of issues. Here its a sin to suggest there could be anything wrong with government. The amount of fluff stories also does my head in.


New sig- 50 year old in a 17 year old body.
Critical_Lemon2008-07-01 19:34:28

I'm glad someone else noticed. I watched TV3 news and it was 13 minutes of that clown half back coverage, followed by 20 seconnds on a murderer arrested and then 2 minutes on Mugabe. Then the sports news was just as bad and basically a repeat of the first 13 minutes. Lonegunmen2008-07-01 21:31:31

Unbelievable the sh*t we have to put up with in this godforsaken backwater hellhole.

And thats before we even look at the behaviour of our polititians, particularly the top dogs in the Labour and National parties. Does anyone else think Cullen is a prize prick?

Cullen invented "smug". I hate the condescending way he talks to us, in a "I know what's best for you all" sort of way.

Thats the way Helen seems to speak sometimes as well though she's a damn good politician. Imagine it will be similar with Key, along the lines of 'you've all been mislead over the last 9 years.'

I dislike the rugby obsession as well, can't we just be really obsessed about pretty much ALL sports, like the Australians?

Also, Colin Meads was 3rd in a poll of most trusted NZers. He actually fronted a campaign for one of those finance companies that went bust and all!

And he's recently left Mrs Meads for some lady over Tauranga way I hear!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fOJlyj8JG0

Absolutely hilarious video - tell me what you think

Murray Mexted would be proud. He's a bit of a plonker too.

If we ever need proof they're two-faced liars, there you go! It's not like it's news however, what also isn't news is that the average kiwi is either too apathetic or simply too stupid to realise whats going on. I am personally very skeptical that we really are the 3rd-least corrupt nation in the world or whatever it is.
Critical_Lemon2008-07-01 21:47:31

I think it's brilliant (well, quite sad actually, just funny) that the Minister of Finance sees no connection between an 8 billion dollar surplus and tax cuts.  I mean I don't even pretend to understand economics and I can see a connection that sticks out like a sore thumb. loyalgunner2008-07-01 21:49:38

I quite like at the end how Helen Clark said she didn't want to see smacking banned. Now, there are issues where situations and the information availiable change and it changes politicians minds (it actually gets my goat when MPs are criticised for changing their stance for a good reason. Its in fact a good thing, do we want to get f**ked over because the gvmt was worried about getting crucified for changing their mind?) but surely child discipline is an issue a woman in her 50's should have a solid stance on?

She hasn't had children though.

I don't think you need to be a parent to have a stance, in fact she said in that quote that stopping smacking was like preventing human nature.

Yeah, good point.  Didn't even think about that lol which is quite bad considering I'm not a parent but do have a stance on it.

Forgot to mention that last week TV1 news actually had an item on about Britney Spears' sister having a baby. I kid you not. Simon Dallow must have been cringing inside as he read it. They carry on with crap like that, and they'll lose him. He's the best newsreader NZ's had for years, but his intellect is wasted on just reading other people's idea of news.

Nice thread Jamster! I've lost count of the number of times I've been watching the news and turned to my (Kiwi) wife and said things like "How f****d up is this country when, with all that's going on, the lead story on the news is about Dan Carter's underwear".

Aussie is much the same... just a third network to give another option... and they do have have the ABC there as well to give you the actual news, rather than some muppet's idea of same or a thinly veiled attempt to promote whoever they'd paid the $$$$$ to for the 'exclusive' interview which is what you get on the other three (plus SBS I s'pose, which is great for international news). SurgeQld2008-07-02 13:07:07

Are you forgetting about ABC Surge, or is there no news on Ten?

What we need is some half-hour show in late primetime like that american Entertainment Tonight show.

Spot the Labour party member The stiuation NZ was in the 80's and 90's was a situation created buy multiple governments, not just the last National one.

Actually i have never voted for labour

Yeah, it was more of a friendly jibe I was going for. You're right, the media misrepresents a heck of a lot of stuff, everyone gets fooled at some point. You're also right about the debt.
Critical_Lemon2008-07-02 09:59:26

Can we just get back to hating the media and the moronic majority that they cater to here in NZ? Y'know, the rugby following, golf playing, yacht watching fishing enthusiasts that seemingly make up 99% of this country's population. That's more fun. Start talking party politics and there'll never be a winner. And please remember the maxim "whoever you vote for government wins". TheJam2008-07-02 11:07:49

Has anyone else noticed that all the important economy-related issues get relagated to the Buisiness section of the Dom Post? Even the stuff that effects all of us.

Noticed that the other day. I've always ignored the Business section and just gone straight to Sport, then skim over News and World. Read the Business section out of boredom one day and thought exactly the same thing.

Aunty = ABC... same nickname as the Beeb lol

Agree fully with your comments about Simon Dallow. He also gets another plus for seemingly hating Tony Veitch - last week, Dallow was hosting the TV1 breakfast show, and their reporter somehow mentioned the names of all the seven dwarfs in the course of a story...10-15 minutes later, what's-her-name blondie hosting the show tried to recount the names of all the dwarfs, but came up with only 6...she goes, 'who's the seventh one?' to Simon Dallow, and he goes, 'Tony Veitch'.
I couldn't stop laughing the whole day.

Scoring the sports exchanges:

1
Rugby - Kaino
Rugby - South Africa in Parliament
Rugby - English Rugby omissions - focus on 'scandal' here which wasn't a scandal.
League - Origin (including Thorne from AB training)
Cricket - Ireland
Tennis - Wimbledon
Olympics - Ryan signed.  Footage at Kiwitea the other week, Blackburn coverage.  A few words with Stu (about twenty seconds)
Olympics - Hockey

3
Rugby - Williams Injury
Rugby - England squad - focus on 'scandal' here which wasn't a scandal.
Cricket - Ireland win
Tennis - Wimbledon
League - Origin
Football - Ryan - Gourdie reports, with footage of todays game. A couple of minutes
Harness Racing.

Yays Gourdie.

TV3 For. The. Win.

Were we ever surprised ?
Hard News2008-07-02 18:53:19