TV3 get’s an idea…or do they?
I wonder where they got the idea for this from?
Maybe this post?
Feckin’ repeaters, find your own news would ya, do you think it would be nice if they could start crediting or paying.
That’s two stories this week alone that the pricks have credited. Now you know why I call them repeaters and churnalists.
Guido Fawkes explains what is happening to the Times website and this is before they have even started charging for the paywall. The internet will defeat paywalls. Even ones thought up by Rupert Murdoch. Traffic is king and paywalls diminish traffic.
The “gurus”, and i use that term loosely seem to think that people will pay for what they can obtain elsewhere for nix. To some extent the demise of MSM to the online crowd-sourced world is a phenomenon of their own making. They still charge a premium for advertisements in the hard copy and devalue their online ad spaces to such an extent that they say the models do not work. Advertising isn’t about clicks it is about eyes on impressions.
I don’t know what the future holds for revenue and payment to online content providers, but I know one thing for sure, it isn’t paywalls and it isn’t CPC. Some one smart will crack this nut one day and the existing models will die faster than ever seen before. Mobility, speed and location crowd-sourcing are what the market wants. They don’t care that the picture is imperfect, or the video wobbles, they just want what is happening NOW, and will consume any content that gives it to them, and the less it is edited the better as far as they are concerned. All of that together makes the MSM methods of production and delivery obsolete.
The wall is up at The Times even if payment isn’t required yet. It started on May 24 and traffic has more than halved in the month since. It will probably halve again and then some when the cash register opens…
I’ll wager Danny Finkelstein, who is overseeing the Wapping paywall project, that within 12 months no Times political columnist will have more measurable readers online than Guido. Lunch at the restaurant of his choice…
via Twitter
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
xkcd on Repeaters
Actually a google search of the word suggests it goes back quite a few years. No matter, it hasn’t really been used here so I can now claim it as a perfect accompaniment to repeaters.
chur.na.lism (chûr’nə-lĭz’əm)
n. repeaters turning out copy direct from press conferences and releases, without checking, to feed the insatiable news machine.
The MSM repeaters have discovered a new weapon. A quick google search confirms that my prodigious knowledge of weapons is indeed correct and no such rifle even exists.
…most of them shot in the face or head at point-blank range either with a shotgun or a high-powered telescopic rifle.
Which was it then? The Shotgun? or the amazing new high-powered telescopic rifle?
I wonder if the barrel was fully extended, or if the the whole rifle was telescopic?
I’ll give you a dollar to a knob of goat-shit that the high powered telescopic rifle will turn out to be a .22 with a scope on it.
Of course the media neglect to observed that in the country with perhaps the most stringent gun laws in the world 12 people got gunned down by a nutter. An unarmed population is always at risk from nutters with guns. In states with open carry in the USA I doubt he would have killed even 2 of them.
hat tip to Graeme Edgler from Facebook
The Herald have a very good example of just how dumb some of the mainstream media are, along with their sub-idiots. In this case it is an AP repeat. Not even Sarah Palin could be blamed for this egregious mis-use of the english language.
Constitutional Right to Wear a Singlet
The AP sub-idiot or perhaps the repeater themselves have invented a new constitutional right that Obama is allegedly going to remove. The Right to Bare Arms. I never knew that the constitution of the US protected the right of all to wear singlets, tank tops and sleeveless blouses. Good on them, the world needs bare arms. How dare Obama try to take that right away.
Protect the Right to Bare Arms
The repeaters are starting to get silly on expenses.
Cabinet minister Judith Collins spent more than $100 a week on petrol over 13 months for her ministerial self-drive car, even though she has a chauffeur-driven Crown limo at her disposal.
Documents obtained by 3 News showed that from February 2009 to February this year, Ms Collins’ petrol bill was $5721.14, or about $440 a month.
Whanau Ora Minister Tariana Turia spent $268 a month, followed by Agriculture Minister David Carter, with $218 a month.
Ms Collins told 3 News she did not think it was an unusually high amount of money to spend on petrol.
I note that once again it is 3News that is manufacturing outrage where none should exist. Patrick Gower is normally better than this. If he had done even the most basic of research he would have realised that due to boundary changes before the last election Judith Collins now lives 21.2km from the nearest boundary of her Papakura electorate. When on electorate business she would use her self drive car and so a return trip to just the closest bounday would be more than 42km.
She drives a Mazda 6 which Mazda’s website shows its peak fuel efficiency is 8.7l/100 driving at 100km/h. It also has a fuel tank of 64 litres. To fill it from empty at today’s pump price would be $116.48. Basically Judith Collins is using a tank a week. That is pretty damn good if you ask me, especially when she lives 21.2 km from the nearest boundary of her electorate and 17.8 km to the nearest decent supermarket and 29.5km to her office from home. Come on Paddy, a tank a gas a week is troughing? I don’t think so.
What was Phil Goff’s fuel bill? He lives a massive 40km from his electorate office.
Patrick Gower is going to have be debut on the Whaleoil Media Rating System as a Cut & Paste Repeater for this shonky piece of rubbish masquerading as news. Probably somewhere down there with Pork Chop.
Papakura Electorate
The NZ Herald has a story supposedly about a BP service station in Howick. I say supposedly because from the article which it appears they repeated verbatim from a caller.
Repeaters from the NZ Herald get the street wrong
If the repeater, David Eames, had even a modest amount of local knowledge he would know that there is only one BP in Howick and it isn’t on Ridgeway Street. If he had looked on a map he would have struggled to find anyway Ridgeway Street at all, If he checked with LINZ he would have found that there are plenty of Ridgeway Places, Roads, Drives and even one Terrace but no Streets and if he checked on BP’s website he would have found that the site is actually on Ridge Road.
BP Ridge Road, Howick
I have been known to attend that service station and I have found the staff very friendly. I think probably Mr Jonkers, with a name like that, is either Dutch or South Africa and as such probably doesn’t like the nice Indian folk who work there.
This whole story is a MEGA-FAIL on the part of the NZ Herald. Bloody repeaters.
UPDATE: Mr Jonker is not a racist. I am reliably informed that he is the associate pastor at Howick Baptist Church and a very nice man and certainly not a racist – he is more a Good Samaritan than a racist. There are many different races that go to Howick Baptist Church including Indian, Tuvaluan, Samoans, Asians . The repeater has obviously made a mistake on the location of the petrol station.
from Rachel at Throng
Every night so far in 2010, I’ve been doing a comparison of the first five stories on ONE News and 3 News on Throng.
One of the recurring trends is for both bulletins to do seemingly simple mathematical calculations incorrectly.
It’s happened three times recently and in each case, the price increases were over-exaggerated. There never seems to be any corrections made, or accountability for these mistakes – which may enrage and worry the general population who believe and repeat their figures without ever knowing they were incorrect.
Here’s four recent examples:
- ONE News and 3 News incorrectly calculate new prices for if GST rises to 15% by just adding 2.5% to current prices (link)
- 3 News incorrectly calculates the new alcohol prices; saying a $40 bottle of whiskey would rise by $28.44 (instead of a rise of $10) (link)
- ONE News and 3 News incorrectly calculate the new tobacco prices; saying a $13.30 pack of 25 cigarettes will go up to $14.40 overnight and to $17 in 2012 (instead of $14.18 and $16.23 respectively) (link)
- 3 News misrepresents the police crime report, saying there were “451,000″ methamphetamine offences in 2009, “up 19% or 20,000 more offences”. 451,000 was the total recorded crimes for 2009, and the percentage change is incorrect. (link)
It is not surprising that every time maths is presented on the news, I am already doubting their calculations.
To be fair to the repeaters they are probably repeating a press release from whatever slant (Labour’s) the editor wants to put on a story. Actually I can’t be fair, the teleprompter repeaters just read what is put in front of them, no thinking is required.
TVNZ are reporting that a North Shore City Councillor’s emails were hacked.
Police are investigating how an Auckland councillor’s email was hijacked to send messages to a journalist.
Councillor Ken McKay’s account was accessed by someone to send emails to a reporter on a Sunday paper.
Newstalk ZB understands the journalist is the same person North Shore mayor Andrew Williams accused of stalking him last month.
Williams says a string of emails between councillors was sent to the reporter.
He says private comments and information intended for councillors was sent out, in an effort to embarrass those councillors for political gain.
This isn’t news it is repeating, and worse repeating the words of General Jesus Williams. Once again Andrew Williams lies to cover up for his appalling behaviour. Behaviour that has now angered the most easily of angered, the Catholic Church.
The emails were neither hacked nor hi-jacked. The account wasn’t even accessed, it was legitimately logged on by the councillor concerned, who left his account logged on and walked away from the computer. it’s almost as if he wanted this to happen. The Police investigation should be very short and they should refer to the Computer Systems manual at the Council for who is responsible for the security of a workstation when they are logged on to it. The emails were even private as Williams lies. They were sent and received by council email addresses, and some sent and received on council equipment, which makes them subject to the LGOIMA. What’s the bet some ICT flunkies of the mayor are busily “losing” the emails? Just like the video footage was “lost”.
TVNZ could really do a better job than repeating the words of a known liar.
