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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3466754a10,00.html
Talk about full of her own self importance.
She needs to learn that its not about the person its the program. Take Paul Holmes nobody followed him when he went to Prime.
Personally, I wouldn't renew her contract.
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Shes not on contract
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Immature and proud of it.
What would you have done?
Told the court, "no I'm not worth $450,000 and I don't know what I'm doing here"
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
e mare libertas
hmm.
its a lot of money either way, of course, but don't forget, us girls get a bit emotional about these things. I'll bet she *did* yell at her kids, too.
poor kids.
their private-school teachers probably had to take time out from attending to the other 4 in their class to comfort them the next day.
but she has a point; if her services were worth $450K last year, then, well...
depends how much employee protectionism you want, really. peoples opinions get skewed when its the rich pricks complaining, but what if this was Joe Westie getting told that he could only stay on at the workshop next year on $35K instead of the $45K he's getting at the moment for the same job?
sympathies might lie differently, but the principles would not have changed.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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$450k? I dunno is the job worth it? I know it's a nationally broadcast show but let's be real the audience is probably only ever going to be 1 million people tops. This is not the 'States and presenters here need to get some realism in their heads. Sure I understand that they are in leading roles but $450k?? I don't see that working 25 hours a week is worth that.
(I wouldn't say no if it was offered to me - even 1/2 that)
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
Deus ex ukulele
$450,000 is all about ego and bullshit. There is no "market" for these fluffy roles, so how can Susan make any credible claims about what she may be worth? TVNZ's board has difficulty defending such rates of remuneration in the Court of Public Opinion, which is also where Susan has to win her case. State Sector CEOs all earn less than $350,000. I'd like to see Susan attempt their jobs (well, it could be entertaining for a couple of weeks).
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Moped rider
must be real bitch earning 350.000 a year. wonder what it feels like?
El tardo tardo....
STUPID WOMAN I TOLD HER SHE WAS BETTER OFF SERVING ME, I FED HER CLOTHED HER AND IN RETURN SHE PLEASURED ME...............what more could a woman want?
has left the building
Who cares? Get over it. It's a matter between her and her employer. Personally I think this public fascination with what someone earns is peculiar. It's none of our business. Naturally she's going to sell her services for what she can get, and naturally she's not going to take a paycut without a fight (would you?), so hence she's going to talk up her value while TVNZ talks it down. Christ it's not Albania folks....it's called capitalism. Good on her for getting paid that much.
Kerry
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I for one don't think the 'public' are fascinated at all... I think the TV News industry is fascinated with it (and their own importance) and wrongly believe it is something we care about. A product of too many New Idea interviews perhaps. I put their self serving announcements regarding the Quantas Media awards etc etc in the same boring basket. WHO CARES for goodness sake you arrogant twats!Originally Posted by kerryg
There is something horribly wrong when the TV news IS the news! It's even more terrible when the News Reader of the year gets more air time than 'Life saver' or Ambo of the yer...
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That's more the truth of the matter - slow news week.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
has left the building
That's a good point Paul. The media, however, drive public interest. If they don't report it we can't know about it. If you are saying they shouldn' t report it, well I think that's potentially a slippery slope. Perhaps the key is good sound editorial oversight but at the end of the day it's a free country and a free press, warts and all, is an important element in keeping it so.
I think there is a tall poppy/penis-envy/kiwi clobbering machine thing going on here. Even our esteemed PM talking about Judy Bailey's salary for "about 4 minutes of work" a day or something. She should keep her opinions to herself. FFS TVNZ is run as a commercial enterprise. The Board has a governance role, not a management role, and should stay out of management matters. If the Government wants to control every management decision they should make it a Government Department again. Even then she, as a politician, not a career civil servant, would find herself antagonising lots of people in the bureaucracy if she started bleating about their salaries. This is not pre-glasnost Russia, even if some of our politicians wish it was.
Kerry
Kiwi gone Walkabout
Not forgetting they have given themselves something like twelve million dollars in bonus's and salary increases in the last 18 months or so...they have been out of control with their self importance since even before the Hawksby saga..they were told to pull their heads in and they agreed,as soon as the smoke had cleared they were at it again....... if the standard of general television was of a reasonable standard it might be bareable..it is like a old boys club gone mad...i couldn't give a toss if a chimp was reading the news etc as long as it was quality viewing.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Perhaps now is a good time for the government (do we have one yet?) to sell off the state-owned TVNZ and have it run along the lines of TV3, by a comercial company. Judy Bailey is a fabulous presenter, as is Susan Wood. Getting rid of the "toxic gnome" was a great move. Nobody followed holmes to Prime TV so now he is serving his contract out by cleaning the urinals...
Remember this is all taxpayers money being spent on these people...
TOP QUOTE: The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.
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Not really... I for one quite like Ms Wood and have utterly no objection to her sticking up for her rights or negotiating whatever salary she can.
Fact is... Not everyone CAN do her job!
By all means they should report it but they should be responsible. Her plight is not news as such. It's a novelty act. There are far more important things going on everyday of the week that this self serving bollocks bumps off the front page but it persists because people inside the industry are all fascinated by themselves. I mean whats more important? Her loosing 100K a year of a hell of a lot of engineers loosing everything at Air NZ?
The TV/news industry uses the public media to promote itself and fluff it'self up to justify the high salary base that drifts down through the sector. They don't own it, we do and I really think it is irresponsible or inappropriate (or merely tasteless)...
When the media start making the news we are on a slippery slope alright. The slippery slope of the cult of personality. Remember she is a news / current affairs presenter. Not chief censor or oppinion maker. She present the news! Not stars in it!
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