Articale in herald today (2005/02/28)

[vifferman]

it ant about news. its about ratings and selling advertising

That's not my point.
My point (hidden in amongst the verdant undergrowth of my long and rambling blather) was that THEY (whoever the phark THEY are) decided that we wanted a particular format, content, etc., but I'm willing to bet that if you canvassed a cross-section of the population and asked the right questions, very few would like what THEY dish up. It seems to me more a case of trying to condition us to expect a certain format.
Well, I for one am no Pavlov's mongrel.

No sirreeee, JiminyBob.

But then again,

[igor]

That's not my point.
My point (hidden in amongst the verdant undergrowth of my long and rambling blather) was that THEY (whoever the phark THEY are) decided that we wanted a particular format, content, etc., but I'm willing to bet that if you canvassed a cross-section of the population and asked the right questions, very few would like what THEY dish up. It seems to me more a case of trying to condition us to expect a certain format.
Well, I for one am no Pavlov's mongrel.

No sirreeee, JiminyBob.

But then again,

That's not my point.
My point is the format and every thing is ratings base

why ask u, they no best or they think they do so thats why they presenrt it that way for eratings and selling advertising at the highest possible dollar

[spudchucka]

Why is someone travelling at 80 kph in a 100 zone any more a hazard than some law abiding citizen towing a trailer at 80kph in a 100 zone?

Surely this is a good thing. Don't know why they didn't make this change when they bumped up the open road speed for trucks.

http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/road-user-sa...f-changes.html

Light vehicle towing speed limit increase

The speed limit for light vehicles towing trailers will increase from 80–90 km/h. (At the same time, the Police will be enforcing a reduced discretionary tolerance of 5 km/h over any applicable speed limit (previously 10 km/h).)

[flyin]

You got it.
Let's all stop watching TV, it just encourages them.

Good call. lets all go out and do somthing constructive.......... its amazing what comes of it

[Lou Girardin]

The biggest piss off about TV is that the news is crap, and it's because THEY have decided that the format the news currently has is what we want. Oh, REALLY? Well, no-one asked me. I'd rather have more good news (instead of one token "happy crappy werid human-interest item"), the sports news entirely separate, longer and more detailed weather, and items of importance given a decent coverage, not just some "YourAttentionSpanIsVeryShortAndYouAreTooStupidAnd IgnorantToUnderstandAnyway" sound-bite.

The question is; how much dumber will society become? We have sound-bite news now, what's next? Txt headlines to go with pretty pictures.
Still, there's always BBC World.
It was funny seeing Judy stumble over a news item with the figure 800,000 being mentioned. She must have gone all a'flutter. I know I bloody would.