First Section: Helen Clark cleans up John Key with facts and cutting straight through the spin. John Key tries to suggest the current economic crises is a result of Labour without realising that International Factors have a bigger influence. John Key will not stop cutting Helen Clark off and states to Mark Sainsbury that he will just keep talking louder unless he is given ability to talk - not a good look.
Section Two: No clear winner.. John Key maybe.
Section Three: John Key implies that we shouldn’t be a leader on Climate Change because we are only 0.4% of world emissions. Well ponder this… Why be Nuclear Free when we are only a fraction of the size of the world?
Section Four: Somehow they get stuck in 1981 Springbok Tour. John Key states he didn’t have an opinion gets eaten by Helen Clark.
Section Five: Education. John Key rules out universal allowances talks about standards. Doesn’t really get anywhere. Much like the rest of the debate. They should mute the mic of the person who isn’t speaking.
Section Six: I’m almost asleep. This is actually quite boring. They get hit by a question about smaller parties. I still think that it should have been everyone over two hours maybe.
Summary: So much for a debate. It was terrible. And didn’t help much. However, the You Tube idea was great lots of young people involved. I would give John Key the win… The smilling assasin.
The link above is to the TVNZ Olympics Message Board.
But unless you want to be disgusted at the attitude of the majority of posters I wouldn’t recommend clicking on the link.
TVNZ is doing an amazing job covering the Olympics. They have four channels of coverage (TV One, Freeview Ch20 and two online channels).
But despite all this people are still complaining. I personally enjoyed the NZ vs Brazil soccer game which was aired on TV One (the main NZ channel).
New Zealanders need to get a grip and be thankful for how much coverage they are getting for free.
TVNZ surely paid top dollar to get the coverage, Sky TV would have been surely trying hard to out bid them.
Imagine the Olympics on Sky. a) Not everyone could get it - Sky costs, TVNZ is free. b) Unless you paid more it would not be in High Def. c) You would not have four channels of coverage - three channels at the absolute max. d) You would still have ads - like the live Formula 1. e) People would still complain.
3News are currently using the tag line “He doesn’t just read the news. He gets it.” So I came up with one for myself when I was on the news earlier in the year. (Sorry for the poor colour, it was done onto old VHS tape and then into the computer)
Those who like facts and figures will have no end of them in the NZ report as part of the World Internet Project. It is probably the most comprehensive study of NZer’s use of the Internet. Some interesting stats:
79% of NZers use the Internet
15% of users are online for over 20 hours a week (half a fulltime job)
66% of users have broadband
71% of users say the Internet is an important source of information, compared to 52% for newspapers and television
10% of NZ Internet users have a blog (this is a very high figure internationally)
28% of users use Facebook or other social networking sites
25% of users have made friends with someone online and half of those have gone on to meet them in person
15% seek info about political parties or MPs online
43% support Government funding to enable wider Internet access while 34% oppose it
Almost 80% of teenagers visit social networking sites, and 40% of those in their 30s do so.
Over 30% of Asian users have a blog, compared to under 10% for Pakeha and around 3% for Maori
Around 20% of those in their teen or 20s have a blog, and slightly more females than males
I am a bit late in blogging this because I was away. But these were the conditions that I had to contend with when heading to the airport last Wednesday morning as a second large storm hit.
A bridge on SH17 between the Albany township and the Albany Tavern was underwater earlier today but reopened by 6.20am.
All lanes of Oteha Valley Road were flooded on the eastern side of the motorway but the road was passable, police said.
Now there is absolutely no denying that the storm that has hit us during the last two days has been particularly nasty, however, one thing that is getting to me is the way the media blow it up, and the way in which the general public then go into panic mode. I had a friend telling me that the motorway was closed and they shouldn’t be driving because there are slips and stuff. The irony here is that the motorway was never closed and the person couldn’t explain to me how you could get a slip in the middle of central Auckland where there are no hills to slip.
Coming back to the one in 10 year storm idea. Compare these two police media release pages. The first is for yesterday. The second is for July 10 2007. One year ago. Where we got hit by a very similar storm which took out power up here for two days. 48 hours. Not 3. And that was a year ago, not 10.
