BLOODBATH AT THE HOUSE OF DEATH!!!
TVNZ has outdone itself with this slice of sensationalist tabloid journalism.
Screw that we’re trying to get the parties talking and avoid a lot of people getting dead, and a legitimate - if bloody dodgey - government being violently over-thrown.
There’s a story, and the people have a right to be told what some sad little wet- behind-the-ears alleged journalist thinks about it all, based on her massive experience of things military (i.e. she read a Commando Comic last week - well, it was good enough to make Keith Locke defence spokescreature for the Greens)
Adolf at Sir Humphrey’s takes them apart, and Ed has grabbed the video of the high point for your viewing displeasure.




November 30, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Not so long ago a commenter on a blog (I think it was on Sir Humps) stated that TV1 news was a women’s magazine pretending to be a serious news organisation.
December 1, 2006 at 6:21 am
Sensationalism is the coin of the media. And anything that smacks of anti-military sentiment will fly. Combing something anti-military with something that might involve violent deaths and you have a sure fire news story.
December 1, 2006 at 10:03 am
Jesus!
Has NZ (I’m still thinking tvnz is state owned) really reared its ugly head towards pathetic ’shock at all costs’ journalism?? Having not lived there for ten years Im not up to date…. Over here in london it just fuels the plebb masses to think the worst…
scott
December 1, 2006 at 11:00 am
It’s profoundly disturbing in light of TVNZ’s plans to run a 24 hour news channel, if you can’t produce a single hour of news once a day, why the fuck should you try and produce 24?