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. :-)
Vista MCE is great! I’ve got one setup at home too. Do you use xmlTVNZ or do you have some other means of getting local guide data?
ha ha.
great stuff. Reminds me of the Great Stadium debate on Campbell Live. While the entire country is debating the stadium, the Campbell live guys had someone in their newsroom mock up the new stadium on the waterfront……basically a whole new design option…..from TV3.
Seeing that on nationwide tv didn’t help the confusion….
the unethical nature of this didn’t even make the news. But who would cover it?
Another example of great news reporting.
;-)
Good call indeed I think, TV’s a great opportunity to connect people to whats happening, but it seems we’ve gone a long way past that now and the trust that people have in it is just worth too much $$ for it to stay in the right hands.
Everyone with a serious agenda wants the stories on TV to get people in the mindspace that suits them, so its not about the watcher, its a bout the pusher. In the brief moments I scan the TV to stay in touch with the perspective so many get engrossed in, it just seems more and more transparent.
And as or the ‘intelligent concversations’ people believe they’re able to have these days over what are apparently key issues of the time/day/year…Its not always about the angle they present on TV, its what they pick to put on at all. The gap between real world and and TV and many broadcasts is drifting, and its not by mistake, its by design.