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Welcome to what passes for the mainstream media here in New Zealand.

• mahmud 16y ago
  The media crisis befalls both Trans-Tasman nations. SBS did a segment on news broadcasts across NSW and found out most "breaking news" segments were recorded days in advance, and in one session where the announcer deliberately changes outfits. Viewers would wait for updates on bushfires and other similar regional crises and they would be "updated" on news about the flavor of the month, rapist footie player leaving a nightclub or doing shopping. American media, however, is as efficient and fervent for their corporate sponsors as any militant death-squad. In America, the footie player's ethnic origin would be researched and the rape case made into a race-war, or the victim tied to a political party in some fringe manner.