Spare Room has a great scoop on the photo that both TVNZ and TV3 used in their coverage of the New Plymouth tornados earlier in the week.

Turns out the image was photoshopped.

Doh! TVNZs “annus horribilious” continues.

I’ve stopped watching the evening news …

For the last 6 months I’ve been recording and timeshifting One News using Vista Media Centre. It works great. I can watch the news whenever I get home and it only takes 20 minutes if you cut out all of the “headlines recap” and “coming up later” crap + the ad breaks.

But even that has become too much. The straw that broke the camels back was the story about the deathbed confession by a guy who featured on Fair Go several years back. He gave a $1000 cheque to compensate some of the people he ripped off. It wasn’t a news story, it was an extended advert for Fair Go.

Enough!

So, now I have 20 more minutes everday. :-)