Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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Long interesting article about how old media basically fucked itself<br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/case-against-media.html'>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/case-against-media.html</a> -
<p>words fail me</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1'>https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1</a></p> -
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words fail me<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1">https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-everyone-deserves-home-protesters-march-block-nzs-open-homes-v1</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/83166703/hilary-barry-steals-hotel-room-safe--for-hilarious-social-media-video'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/83166703/hilary-barry-steals-hotel-room-safe--for-hilarious-social-media-video</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="604368" data-time="1470738260"><p>This is quite depressing as usual the clip at the end is funny, but depressing.</p></blockquote>
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Yeah that's depressing alright. It's sad to see what were once proper news gathering organisations reduced to advertorial Buzzfeed wannabes. The NZ Herald has a headline right now "iPhone 7: Should you buy it, or wait?". When did speculation about a phone that's not even released yet, lifted wholesale from news.com.au, become newsworthy? Once it might have warranted a smallish article in a weekly lifestyle section, but now it's right there alongside other thought provokers like "Mariah Carey's "sexy" billboards banned" (sexy? But they've got Mariah Carey on them, how can they be sexy? And by the way it's an airport in fucking California, why the fuck do we care?) and "The dark side of avocados".<br><br>
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<p>Yeah that's depressing alright. It's sad to see what were once proper news gathering organisations reduced to advertorial Buzzfeed wannabes. The NZ Herald has a headline right now "iPhone 7: Should you buy it, or wait?". When did speculation about a phone that's not even released yet, lifted wholesale from news.com.au, become newsworthy? Once it might have warranted a smallish article in a weekly lifestyle section, but now it's right there alongside other thought provokers like "Mariah Carey's "sexy" billboards banned" (sexy? But they've got Mariah Carey on them, how can they be sexy? And by the way it's an airport in fucking California, why the fuck do we care?) and "The dark side of avocados".<br><br>
It doesn't seem to have dawned on the Herald yet that their only point of differentiation is NZ and local news. If they lose the local focus and compete with Buzzfeed, don't be surprised when their readers choose Buzzfeed.</p>
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<p>Are you saying that the best way for them to survive is to carry the Hilary Barry story?</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="605710" data-time="1471307334"><p>Are you saying that the best way for them to survive is to carry the Hilary Barry story?</p></blockquote>
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<p>This is a great story <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83111077/Berryman-building-on-Riverhead-success'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83111077/Berryman-building-on-Riverhead-success</a></p>
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<p>There's a Hilary Barry story? How so, isn't she dead? I'm sure I read the obituaries somewhere.</p>
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<p>Yes, she has done a story on Health and Safety.</p>
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<p>It's hilarious, apparently. But not as hilarious as my pun.</p> -
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<p>There's a Hilary Barry story? How so, isn't she dead? I'm sure I read the obituaries somewhere.</p>
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<p>She has now been dubbed 'Mother of the Nation" by Stuff.</p>
<p>I thin they are just trolling now.</p> -
<p>I have cut all my ties to my 'mother' what has she ever done for me!</p>
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She has now been dubbed 'Mother of the Nation" by Stuff.<br>
I thin they are just trolling now.</p></blockquote>
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<p>This is a bloody interesting read. My view on it is torn.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/16/new-zealands-most-shameful-secret-we-have-normalised-child-poverty'>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/16/new-zealands-most-shameful-secret-we-have-normalised-child-poverty</a></p>
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<p>$28,000 a year or $550 a week is the poverty line? Seriously?</p>
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<p>Firstly, I keep reading that outside of Auckland in the smaller towns, jobs are a plenty, and the rent is much cheaper. So why do these people stay in Auckland?</p>
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<p>Secondly, I wonder why it is that UK paper feels the need to investigate this - are we seriously not helping our needy? </p> -
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<p>This is a bloody interesting read. My view on it is torn.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/16/new-zealands-most-shameful-secret-we-have-normalised-child-poverty'>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/16/new-zealands-most-shameful-secret-we-have-normalised-child-poverty</a></p>
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<p>$28,000 a year or $550 a week is the poverty line? Seriously?</p>
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<p>Firstly, I keep reading that outside of Auckland in the smaller towns, jobs are a plenty, and the rent is much cheaper. So why do these people stay in Auckland?</p>
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<p>Secondly, I wonder why it is that UK paper feels the need to investigate this - are we seriously not helping our needy? </p>
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<p>The article lost a lot of credibility when they had this:</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">>in the ghettoised suburbs of Otara, Papatoitoi and East Tamaki.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">If you can't bother to spell names of suburbs correctly, did you really do much research?</span></p> -
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<p>The article lost a lot of credibility when they had this:</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">>in the ghettoised suburbs of Otara, Papatoitoi and East Tamaki.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">If you can't bother to spell names of suburbs correctly, did you really do much research?</span></p>
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<p>It is the Grauniad - I'm impressed they spelled "East" correctly.</p>
