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ABSENCE OF “SHOCK” LEAVES KIWI READERS SHOCKED!!!
Taking a break in Queensland can make you dissatisfied with home. It’s the weather mainly – warm, sunny, reliable. And Queenslanders drive at the speed limit with the result that, paradoxically, you...
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Miracle on Albert Street – HERALD TURNS INTO THE SUN!!!
A week or so back in ABSENCE OF SHOCK LEAVES READERS SHOCKED I suggested that our daily metropolitan newspapers were broadsheet in format but tabloid in content. I’m indebted to The Herald for so...
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Bouquets & Brickbats (An Occasional Series)
Fair Go (TV1) – Despite the OTT set, had returned to its knitting – sorting out viewer complaints – by programme 3. The yellow circles were gone and none of the stories were split into two or three...
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underthemarchsun.com I was never any good at sport. At secondary school I was known as ‘Hat-Trick Edwards’. At cricket practice, bowlers used me to see how many hat-tricks they could score. I was no...
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The Herald goes totally tabloid
Shock! Horror! A disastrous earthquake! North Island? South Island? The big one’s finally hit Wellington? No. It’s in VANUATU, for god’s sake!! There apparently wasn’t much damage and no-one was...
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Tabloid Herald misleads again.
I measured the front page of the NZ Herald this morning. Excluding the top and bottom margins, 25cm was taken up with advertising and glaring promos. Only 29cm was news content, and if you exclude the...
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The Anonymity Pandemic
For around 45 years I’ve been broadcasting and writing in New Zealand. My occasionally forcefully expressed liberal/left opinions have over that time attracted both agreement and disagreement,...
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