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Journalism lecturer Brian Priestley ruefully brings down the curtain on TVNZ's media show. After 12 years of scrutinising newspapers, radio, magazines and TV, Priestley offers parting awards for "the most memorable people, programmes or papers since 1976" while gently sniping at the decision to can his show (which, he is quick to point out, still rates as well as Miami Vice). While full of praise for the achievements of some outlets and journalists, he sees a difficult future ahead for a media under threat from trivialisation and superficiality.
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Great to see these. "trivialisation and superficiality" Ha! there's been a fair bit of that since '88
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Brian Smith
Posted at 10.03AM - 08.11.2011
I don't know if Brian is still around but he would be horrified at the standard of journalism and the print/tv media of today- trivialisation and superficiality 100%, absolutely diabolical! Do they actually bother to still have journalism programmes at universities and polytechnics? For TV, just employ pretty young woman under 30 and for print media the same or those that are sympathetic to the paper owners political bias-simple really!