There are more current affairs going on there, that in those named in this blog !!!!!

Sunday is presently not on, as I note, and before it was reduced to half an hour, which is too short. Most of what they showed last year was light, bizarre or emotive contents. Q+A also tends to have a very long break over Christmas and into the new year, and it is generally OK, but apart from that and The Nation (with which I detected a bit of an overly government friendly bias), the other shows on TV3 are mostly focused on overseas issues or stories.

Native Affairs is good with some stories that no other channel but Maori TV shows, but it is primarily targeting just a section of the population.

So this Sharp 7 trash is space that could be used much better for REAL current affairs, rather the nonsensical self-promotion of over-paid moderators and media VIPs.

TV1 got rid of all the David Attenborough / BBC content, remember? Who broadcast The Blue Planet? Prime. What’s back on TV1 now? David Attenborough. Hey – memo – this stuff rates!!

Hence the abortion we have on at 7 p.m. I just saw a promo with graphics ‘painted’ on – arrows pointing to what the presenters were talking about. I mean where do they get these people? It looked like a music video from 1988

The host is not repeat not important to me. I don’t care if a crotchety fat hairy old man in his dressing gown presents it, I don’t give a fuck. In fact I’d prefer a crotchety old fat man in a dressing gown over any current host, bar none. But I don’t care because, to me, “current affairs” does not equal bimbo lightweight bullshit lest audiences get furrowed brows.

Journalists like for example, Leighton Smith, Larry Williams, Fran O’Sullivan, Phil Kitchener etc presenting on issues that matter.

Stories like Novopay for example and asking questions like if we already know from Joyce’s leaker briefing paper precisely what the process issues from the ministry’s perspective are and we’re conducting a technical audit to find out that side, why pray tell do we also need an expensive third enquiry who will simply summarise both of those papers into a somewhat more elegant, “high-level” tome? Is it because you want to deflect the heat completely into somewhere else like the consultancy of the four who gave the go-ahead who joins Talent2 as one of the baddies? Is that why you’ve staffed it with an apolitical figure and another from a consultancy?

But who cares what I think, that’s why I’d watch those sort of journalists run stories that matter, because they think of things I would never, and that’s why I haven’t watched a current affairs show for ages. It’s lightweight babbling bullshit aimed at morons. I mean surely someone in the television anatomy realises that the pursuit of such shit as they dish out continually is counter-productive, and is the reason more and more thinking people, high earners, have departed, never to return. Does this not matter to them?

Apparently not. Isn’t that a shame. The rather sad thing is the 7 o’clock slot is the perfect place to start de-dumbing the population – high brow times like Sunday morning is where shows like Seven Duh really belong. But the entire media have got it wrong. For decades now they have chased the dollar. As the classified advertising “rivers of gold” started drying the media have more and more focused on this: the audience aren’t readers/listeners/viewers anymore and haven’t been for some time. In times past we were brains, fed with analysis and “all the news fit to print.” But since all the media changed that definition and we all became “customers,” the media has pursued us like it was selling toothpaste, with the audiences carefully analysed and segmented and fed according to the practiced tried and true marketing-driven segmentations. This switch as anyone alive on or before the 80′s can witness, happened to us then and there is little comparison to the MSM today and then, is there. And it will just get worse. Pity.

When I’ve watched 60 mins or 20/20…. how much of that is NZ content? It’s always padded out with American shit or global shit. No problem… but use the name NZ to describe it… I don’t think so.

Geez… I’ve never even heard of The Vote, 360 or 3rd Degree. Or The Nation. Will have to look them up. Oh ok they’re new two of them.

If many of those who didn’t switch channels don’t like it they will switch off. And I know that a lot of younger people never think of checking out TV1.

It could take quite a while for the audiences to adjust, if it doesn’t flop too much and get dumped before that.

you seem overly generous in your praise and defense of this garbage show.

Im sure NZ could handle a 30 min version of the oreilly factor. just include international news when needed.

The article on banks and interests rates was too poor to call journalism.

Has no one in TVNZ done a basic course in economics?