Written By:
the sprout - Date published:
1:54 pm, October 4th, 2009 - 3 comments
Categories: Media -
Tags: mediawatch, Mike King, Nutter's Club, Radio Live, RNZ
Today’s mediawatch on RNZ covers problems with the reportage of the tsunami warnings, the politics of climate change reporting, and features an interview with Mike King about his life and new Sunday night Radio Live show focusing on psychological issues and mental illness.
Although it’s entitled The Nutter’s Club, the show’s got the potential to be quite good and a lot better than the marketing suggests, although there’s apparently method to the title’s madness. It’s a sort of kaiwai Frasier if that’s conceivable. King gives a pretty frank interview and kind of redeems himself in my eyes.
Meanwhile the final mediawatch story illustrates just how nuts the world of sports journalism can be.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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yeah…even the SST gave the idiotes at radio spud a jab in their sunday mag for being abusive. good job
talking about politics…who gets the transtasman newsletter these days. according to red hooton on rnz this morning they have been subcontracted by the nats to front foreign policy. izzat troo?