I’m loath to blog about television again, because there are so many more interesting things happening in media.
However, the sight of Cameron Bennett stepping out of the Deathstar (ahead of being pushed) provides an insight as to why I feel compelled to comment on the train wreck that is TVNZ News and Current Affairs.
It was poet and philosopher George Santayana who said, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” Such is the case with TVNZ’s homage to its own history, the jauntily named “Cheers To 50 Years.”
This was a programme touted as a celebration of all that we’ve known and loved on the box for the past half-century but which resulted in the boring vying with the banal for two excruciating, culture-cringing hours.
Oh dear. There has just been another cock up at TVNZ that will probably cost the broadcaster dearly.
TVNZ announced today it had “offloaded” its Commonwealth Games coverage rights to Sky/Prime TV.
The only problem is – it hasn’t. Yet.
Bill Ralston blogs;
Your entire faith in the veracity of the media can be destroyed any time you read a news story when you, yourself, have some inside knowledge of the true facts.
I spotted two news items this week that bore no relationship to the reality of the issue in question and they were either blatant “beat ups” after a long internal discussion between the reporter and their typewriters (ok, computers) or the reporters were dumb enough to be sucked in by the PR spin of someone with a vested interest.
Fantasy Story One: In the NZ Herald John Drinnan breathlessly reports, “Henry Poised for Bigger Role at 7pm”.
