When it's not this short and big arsed bint being featured it's likely to be one of her siblings or parents sticking their useless and untalented noses in front of a camera (usually their own) to regale us of stories of what they ate, threw up, drank, gobbled (off), bought, travelled to .....etc.
OK, that's a bit trollish but I'm sure you know what I mean.
I've taken up buying The Listener again.
We used to subscribe but for the last few years have missed out on this excellent publication.
I'm buying it because I like reading it but I'm also buying it because I want to support it so that hopefully it doesn't go the way of all print media today. Away.
Print media has taken quite a beating over the last decade with many fine newspapers and journals going under. It doesn't seem to matter how august the publication is or how worthy the content, if the circulation targets are not being met it's 'Goodnight Nurse'.
Most of our newspapers have gone this way, either totally buried or becoming free issues which just means becoming an advertising vehicle. (Evening Post, Christchurch Star etc.
Two of the remaining
Quality journalism in the alternate media, the digital winner, has pretty much disappeared.
When, in the 1990's the big newspapers recognised the threat and bought in to the alternate channels, observers (or at least the optimistic ones) believed that all would be good and that it would just be progress. Unfortunately not so.
Just think about the last digital media, news or otherwise you read or viewed. The chances are that the 'report' was poorly crafted, had appalling grammar, was infested with confusing spell-check spelling (American) and seemed to be written by a gushing 20-something. Am I right or am I right?
I have, on my iPad, the apps for Yahoo news, The NZ Herald and Flipchart.
As you'd expect Yahoo news is pretty much all crap but The NZ Herald, surprisingly, is not much further behind. Sure it (Herald) sorts out articles by current, latest, sports, social etc. but the predominance is 'social' and consists in large (pun intended) of Kim Kardashian's arse.
(Flipchart is pretty good but, being American features pretty much all American news.)
What concerns me about this (and not just Kim Kardashian's arse) is that these 'news' providers are increasingly resorting to social media inputs to back up their reports. There are an annoying number of 'feeds' from Twitter, Facebook and dare I say it - blogs to support the 'essays' that the now social media newspapers publish. What's worse is that television news programmes are resorting to the same lazy crap.
Now television news (not only in New Zealand) has gone downhill at record speed. The tradition we had of well educated, dedicated and earnest reporters and presenters has been pretty much smashed. Gone are the well researched, produced and presented news reports, special reviews and investigative programmes and welcome to the "ha ha, funny aren't I" rubbish from the likes of Hoskings and Henry.
Staff have been decimated in sacrifice to the overpaid bubble heads so that there are no longer enough reporters and cameramen on the ground to cover events. More and more we are seeing, when there is a major accident, shooting, catastrophe or any newsworthy event some pithy and frankly fucking useless input from 'Dorothy of Cambridge' who said that she thought she heard a loud bang or something from somewhere or 'Craig of Oamaru' (one of those idiots with a drone and a go-pro camera) who sends in an indistinct and irrelevant video clip of cars parked in a field or something.
So that's why I've returned to The Listener.
(It also has a better cryptic crossword than The NZ Herald).
1 comment:
Yep, รจ vero.
Sorry about the Italian.
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