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Newstalk ZB newswriters are nothing more than saus...

2006-03-29T22:34:00.000+12:00

Newstalk ZB newswriters are nothing more than sausage factory workers - they have to churn out anything up to 6 stories an hour or more, with audio. I'd say this is way more a case of "grab the closest comment you can" than any editorial policy dictating preferential audio grabs from advertisers.

And yes, despite all their internal culture problems, praise heaven for NatRad :)

To Anonymous:Good point. Media laziness is however...

2006-03-29T13:09:00.000+12:00

To Anonymous:
Good point. Media laziness is however a pretty poor excuse. Either way, advertising interests or poor journalism, objective and informative media suffers.

To Lyndon:
They would've picked up the phone to talk to the House of Travel representative, who had a sound bite on the segment.

Actually, they probably didn't have to pick up the...

2006-03-29T12:23:00.000+12:00

Actually, they probably didn't have to pick up the phone. House of Travel sent out a media statement:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0603/S00306.htm

and I don't believe anyone else did.

From memory your quotes were in there.

Trust me, they're not organised enough to do that ...

2006-03-23T20:16:00.000+12:00

Trust me, they're not organised enough to do that deliberately. I'd suggest lazy journalism as being the culprit.
As in:
"shit we need a local angle on this."
"Anyone know anybody over there?"
"Fuckit, let just ring a travel agency. How about the one that played in the adbreak just before? Christ if they buiy airtime there's no way they'll tell us to piss off"