So TV ONE’s Close Up is to close up shop at the end of the year. According to TVNZ it’s too old, past it’s prime, tired and no one wants to watch it any more.
Instead TVNZ will invent a whole new 7pm programme which it claims will be current affairs. Neither statement is true.
Archive for September, 2012
Send in the Clowns
Friday, September 28th, 2012The Rumble in the Jungle
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012There’s been a rumble in the journalistic school-yard recently that’s taken up more column and blogging space than it deserves. It started last Saturday with John Armstrong’s weekly column, “Bloggers don’t let the facts get in the way,” a rare rant from the Herald’s chief political commentator, against two “bloggers” ( Scoop’s Gordon Campbell and “former Alliance staffer and now Otago University politics lecturer Bryce Edwards”) who, in fact, are slightly more than your average bedroom-bound geek penning diatribe.
