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What's with the infatuation with disasters on TV.

I know it's a disaster but I don't need to see an interview with everyone that was involved 10 TIMES...

To make it worse I'm missing BBT and TG.

i agree i think ive seen the same woman rescued 15 times

It's all about money. Nothing else. If they can create a big enough disaster, high emotion, mass hysteria, death, destruction...if they can create an event then more people watch and therefore they watch advertisements. They try to drag it out as much as they can.

Then after the event they proudly advertise how great they were at bringing you that event and that you should keep watching them because they're first with the news, they have people with experience...30 years of experience, legends.

I'm sure you all know all this but it's pretty sicko stuff really. They're nothing more then vultures circling the carcass.

I hope one day that people will recognise it for what it is...greedy, money hungry arseholes.

The only person it really helps atm is that Ricky Nixon cause they have something else to focus on..

(unless he was unfortunate enough to fly to NZ... )

PICTURE OF RECENT DISASTER

Tack wrote:It's all about money. Nothing else. If they can create a big enough disaster, high emotion, mass hysteria, death, destruction...if they can create an event then more people watch and therefore they watch advertisements. They try to drag it out as much as they can.

Agreed .... but a tiny benefit of senationalising is that it sticks a cracker up the pollies and helps with funding/grants, particularly the little people who usually get left out..

Possum wrote:

Tack wrote:It's all about money. Nothing else. If they can create a big enough disaster, high emotion, mass hysteria, death, destruction...if they can create an event then more people watch and therefore they watch advertisements. They try to drag it out as much as they can.

Agreed .... but a tiny benefit of senationalising is that it sticks a cracker up the pollies and helps with funding/grants, particularly the little people who usually get left out..

Can they put a new Levy on us for a kiwi Disaster?
...they'll figure a way I'm sure

seiko1 wrote: Can they put a new Levy on us for a kiwi Disaster?
...they'll figure a way I'm sure

It's already in the stitching i presume..

Its over the top.Fricken 3 or 4 channels showing the same feed.hourly updates are more than enough.It actually totally desensitises people to it.Kids aren't shocked or stunned by the tv images of earthquakes,cyclones , floods or war for that matter due to saturation coverage.

Well let's turn this negative into a positive and open it up for anyone who would like to heap more shit on mikey84 regardless of it being deserved or not. There is only three maybe four threads going so far and that's just not nearly enough.

Tack wrote:The only person it really helps atm is that Ricky Nixon cause they have something else to focus on..

Im sure everyone is being fed the coverage of the cash strapped Newcastle Knights takeover bid? Anything to put Joey on the front page

I can't believe that I turned on the tv this morning to find that f-wit koshie or whatever the fark he calls himself already in NZ covering the damn earthquake. Seriously, did he get on the first friggin plane over there as soon as he heard it all went down!! He is just over there arse feeding off the tragic circumstances of others. I swear he was interviewing a member/journalist from the CTV building and he almost started to smile as she was breaking down in front of him. He was no doubt thinking something along the lines of "this is going to make excellent television"

Am I even posting in the correct thread? I have been into the bourbon tonight. Where was I?

There's good & bad with journalism, i guess this is a little bit of both.

dutchy wrote:I can't believe that I turned on the tv this morning to find that f-wit koshie or whatever the fark he calls himself already in NZ covering the damn earthquake.

I cant stand that morning news channel, but you will find there is no real empathy from journalists these days.. its all too much, much prefer going for a squirt..

dutchy wrote:Am I even posting in the correct thread? I have been into the bourbon tonight. Where was I?

Hmm, must have been the night for it.. I spilt bourbon on my minty green rug .. still trying to work out how i missed my mouth

fireyrob wrote:..............

Im sure everyone is being fed the coverage of the cash strapped Newcastle Knights takeover bid? Anything to put Joey on the front page

the big question for us mexicans is...what the phark are the knights of Newcastle?


we dont know (and dont really care) so.......
thankfully you lot north of the border are keeping this one to yourselves





ps...who/what is a Joey?

I come from Christchurch and my parents still live there (and are ok) so I appreciate being able to see so much coverage ... by a fluke I've been off work sick the last three days. But I can see where you guys are coming from, every new bit of footage or news I see I watch with interest, but so much of it is just repeats, and I am finding it hard to follow when they put up old coverage with the banners still there, you see some footage saying 15 people found in a pocket hours after that news has been proven wrong. What I'm really waiting for now unfortunately is a list of the dead (sorry deceased, it would seem you can't say dead or died, they are deceased or passed away) I am so hoping I don't know anyone on it! My hometown will never be the same again, the beautiful old buildings I grew up with seem for the most part to be ready for the bulldozers now, My next trip over is in June although we will only have a couple of days in Chch I don't think we'll get into the city, this really will kill off the businesses in there