Loosing our Journalists - Advertising blight

Posted September 9th 2016 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

Dear ODT :
We keep hearing that traditional journalism is being crushed by the free Internet news, under cutting the traditional advertising revenue
that keeps our forth estate going but I think there may be more to it than that...

 Where is the shrinking Advertising Money going?
might it be that our Asian Business Tigers have twigged that low prices and bulk sales need much less advertising to get a return?

In advertising quality and quantity are total different beasts they recon.

Perhaps the Golden Days of Advertising are gone because of new business strategies and the Old School print media’s counter-productive reaction.

Also certain Australian Media Barons have caused damage by being way to eager for profit and power breaking the bonds of professionalism
In the Industry not only for money but control of political outcomes playing on base fears causing them to loose their “composure” so to speak.

Sadly this blight is spreading as at least one of our NZ Australian Banking Barons has twigged that Customer Service is not as profitable as venture capital manipulation.

Corporate Globalism I think is a big player in this game and the shrinking middle class is another  Good to see the ODT has held fast against the winds of change so far.

Southland Times Needs a Makeover

Posted 9th July 2016 to the Southland Times Newspaper

Dear Natasha,
Your Paper is "striking out" on Progressive Liberal Feedback, you forget too much Public oppion is never a bad thing.

Newspapers NEED to be the Moderate Voice of Reason  for their communities  to bridge the different factions of the community they represent.

The Internet is not a good place for Community Discussion of opposing points of view.
If you fail as an editor in this area then you do all your staff a disservice.

Journalism use to be a profession. but too many have sold out.

That is the real DOWNFALL of the Print Media  not Google or Apple

Your Industry has a Demon and it's name is Murdoch..

What about injustice ? Your staff act like they have been feed emotion suppressing drugs.

(From the Odentroll Dispatch)

Future of the Media 2016 New Zealand

Posted 30th April 2016 to Jim Mora and the Panel Radio New Zealand

Jim, I think the old model of each regional center having its own Daily Paper dates back to the Dawn of News Media.

If we where to Start again, one National paper with regional supplements would suffice and its digital Version
Would be the subscription and paper version would be discounted with abbreviated stories.

Failing that a State Newspaper could be in order.. Based on the material from State Radio and Television
(if we bring back state television as we should)  to stop the Australian  & Offshore Media Barons interfering in our democracy.

It Really is simple, People want news not propaganda they have to pay for and the Internet Is the answer to Rupert Murdoch and his Cowboys.

DNA Cutting News: Anthropocene Revolution

Posted 29th March to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

Buried on page 12 of the Southland Times of March 21st  there was a story about DNA Editing or “CRISPR”
 it is interesting how innovations with truly massive implications are not seen as important news like Sports and Crime
Yet the editing of Human Embryos and the genetics of other species is a real Game Changer.
Imagine a World full of strong mentally and physically perfected people and management of Plant and Animal Pests as well as harmful Microbes.
Well that door is now open to the true heart of the “Anthropocene” era we now live in.

If we can survive the transformation from emotional irrational reckless paranoid societies to SMART benevolent ones, as this will be a great turning point
For all Humanity.

I suppose that all depends on who will be the person who replaces the current sitting US President and the emotional irrational reckless paranoid political system
that one person has to deal with.

If Charles Darwin where here I think he would agree we are going to need to adapt. 

Stock Market Gitters in Heartland NZ ?

Posted 14th of February 2016 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

Looking at the Stock Market slumping again one has to admit Life is not always fair, it is funny that it is usually people who for the top end of the heap get overlooked
What happens when you sell your farm and you need to reinvent yourself with only a Bag full of Money to live on?
It no laughing matter  no one cares that it’s impossible to find a stable investment portfolio to put all your money in.
You can always buy a nice lifestyle Block in the Southern Lakes Region and Graze Lawn Tractors, tourism is way too seasonal
And darn hard work. Yes you can buy a Big shed to Put your Trophy Boat behind your trophy house for occasional trout chasing for dinner but that’s not as lucrative as it seems.
Even grouching at “poor people” for being lazy “takers” with a pension for finding bad luck seems a fruitless pastime.
These Affluent people are a endangered breed and should be treated with great reverence as they came from a time when hard work was rewarded and they had parents who passed farms on to their Children,
If not, University was free and the State was like a caring thoughtful uncle. Toughen up and She’ll be right worked well then.
Today our investments do all the real earning instead of elbow grease and it somehow it makes people grouchy, maybe because we know from history, time and again it can vanish in a flash. And who do we blame? and how can we toughen up then?

The plight of Raif Badawi - Media Test

Posted 3rd November 2015 to Media Watch Radio New Zealand.

If you need to test our Media organizations for morality
All you have to do is check which ones have published or addressed the Story of Raif Badawi
In Saudi Arabia...

Some News is pure fiction but most damage of it is distortion by omission for reasons of moral rectitude.

Democracy fails when the is no voice of reason to guide it...

 

 

Tall Poppies In New Zealand

Posted 27th September 2015 to Sunday at Radio New Zealand.

In Response:

Home Truths,
Yes NZ is rubbish at celebrating it’s Movers and Shakers
Probably because our Media is Australian and our Government is Full of light-weight posers..

Take a Look at our Bank Notes...  only one academic... and he is the Guy who darn near got us all Killed.

What does that say?