Breaking News?
This is on the front page of Stuff, and also being run as a banner. It almost makes me weep. I’m not saying the media shouldn’t cover news about Jackson, as the public are obviously interested in it.
But please please don’t label it as “breaking news” as if it is of some importance.
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Tags: Media, Michael Jackson, Stuff
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
It was a typo. The “b” was meant to be an “f”. i.e. Freaking News!
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
Even more shocking in the autopsy report is the evidence that Jackson had undergone plastic surgery.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 am
It’s not as bad as the tv broadcast of his memorial service by TVNZ. News about him is always interesting and fascinating for many but I don’t know why TVNZ decided to broadcast the live feed on both TV1 and TVNZ7 simultaneously. I did want to see what was on the news other than him by tuning into the TVNZ7 hourly bulletins – but they were showing something already available on a more widely broadcasted channel… I was not impressed.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
I was thoroughly sick of hearing about Jackson by about the third day after his death. I think it wasn’t until a couple of weeks after he died that I noticed that 3 News had had a Jackson-free evening news bulletin. I thought they’d been grasping for a long time. But I’m still amazed at just how the media can whip a lot of nothing in to a Jackson-related headline.
Not completely unrelated… Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl and carrying on an “affair” with at least one 15 year old in France. Celebrities (Spielberg, Michael Mann, Whoopi Goldberg, Woody Allen, the French Government, etc) seem to be flocking to excuse what he has done. Michael Jackson certainly had inappropriate relations with children (even if we’re unsure just what form those relations took), and has no end of celebrities to support him. But Gary Glitter seems to have been left out in the cold without no one to support him. Genuine question: What is the difference that sees Glitter (rightfully) shunned by all, but Polanski and Jackson celebrated by many?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 am
who wants to know about a pedophile after his death?
There are far more news worthy items to comment on.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 am
I’m kind of disappointed that there’s no mention of a false nose…
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Michael Jackson healthy? I thought he was dead! Boom! Boom
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
What made me weep was this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/2923369/Stop-jumping-on-me-Klum-says
In fact it broke me just to click on that link to post it. Dear god why is that newsworthy?
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 am
An Oscar perhaps?
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 am
Only to be expected from the MSM morons.
Yesterday we had Rawdon Christie on TVNZ telling us about the number of “underground earthquakes” occuring around the Pacific rim…you can only wonder who writes this crap, and the (lack of) intelligence of the bimbo talking heads who read it out!
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
But don’t you know what happens to Fairfax staff if they don’t break the story first? And label it appropriately?
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I seriously doubt “the public” (as if there ever was such a thing) are interested in Jackson at all.
This sort of crap is simply the lazy way out for Stuff, meaning they don’t have to earn real news stories.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
If you think the jackson thing is bad the herald labled the death of Paul Homes’ mother as BREAKING NEWS. Apart from the fact the it isn’t that big a story imagine how Paul feels now that his dead mother is of national importance. I think these news editors need to learn the meaning of BREAKING NEWS!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The public may not be, but Stuff’s readers surely are. Fairfax knows a good deal about how much traffic their stories on Stuff get. If they’re headlining something like this story, it’s because they expect it to generate a lot of traffic (and, thus, a lot of ad impressions).
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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October 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 am
who wants to know about a pedophile after his death?
Given their prophet married his wife Aisha when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9, I think one answer to your question is every Muslim in the world.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
True. RightNow. I guess to a devout Muslim, a MILF would be about 13 years old.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Yes, the overuse of the ‘breaking news banner’.
A black stripe with a red tip carrying the headling”
Breaking News: bla bla bla
First started appearing on both the major’s news websites about 6 – 9 months ago and carrying newsworthy headlines.
Some more recent, less worthy headlines I’ve seen:
‘Breaking news: All Blacks team named’
Breaking news: Tsunami does not hit Chatham Islands’
That last one isn’t even news, it is the opposite to news.
I think the media in NZ just make it up as they go along.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Hi Ramon how’s Tim doing, still playing beat it at the green room?
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
haha d4j. The Green Room is not gay and my name is not Ramon!