Bloody brilliant. They rang up talkback hosts to see how long they'd tolerate a stutterer. Danny Watson lasted 64 seconds. Mary Lambie lasted - ummm, 6 seconds, I think?
Oh - and they mentioned the annoying voice-overs over the credits at the end of TV shows - and showed how they butchered the credits at the end of that Hitler thing in Sydney and Melbourne. While they rolled all the stats about how many people died in the concentration camps, some guy was talking about a shopping special on the following sunday.
Yesterday morning Hugh Sundae rang Newsboy for a quick word about it, and Newsboy said "I wanted to do something serious, but it didn't really work". All the actual stuff they talked about was quite interesting, but you just can't watch Newsboy and keep a straight face. I'm still not 100% sure how much of it was real, and how much was just made up.
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still, it was thought provoking, which ...
still, it was thought provoking, which is more than can be said for other (homegrown) / (TV2) shows on tele.
it really reminded me of 'The Fourth Estate' - yeah, that's how old i am. a great ph-hunny thoughtful/sometimes horrifying meta-media programme on in the late 80s.
though sometimes i can't watch Newsboy without drooling.
//'The Fourth Estate' I was too ...
//'The Fourth Estate'
I was too young to even think that program would be remotely interesting so I never paid any attention. I think it was on between two programs I liked watching though, which was annoying.
I was expecting EML to be a kiwi equivalent of Ali G ("did you get a lot of chicks?"). Not that that would have been a bad thing, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I reckon Newsboy's probably the best candidate for filling the current affairs satire gap left by McPhail and Gadsby.
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//butchered the credits at the end of that Hitler thing
wow, that was really something. when we watched the docu-drama, our jaws were on the floor, and then the credits/statistics ran, and i didn't think it was possible to feel any crapper/floored/knocked out by sheer numbers (of course, in NZ they had the making of the docu-drama on afterwards, and it was pretty bloody awe-full too, in an educational/shocking way).
i can't believe that it ran like that in Aussie. didn't common sense kick in at some point - did no one ask - "hey this is deep shit, the worse thing humanity has ever done to itself; shouldn't we avoid advertising a shopping mall programme during these death/murder statistics".
yeah, that was so bad, that i can't believe it was real.
for a serious look at the weeks media ...
for a serious look at the weeks media in the style of forth estate you can not got past media watch and it's supporting web site on Nation radio.. It's a good wake up with tea and toast in bed on a sunday moring...
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i'm talk old 4th estate from the 70's ...
i'm talk old 4th estate from the 70's .. talking head newspapers.......... Ian gordon/ drydon????
didn't really dig it i'm afaid. i ...
didn't really dig it i'm afaid. i found newsboy to be too smarmy. normally i don't.
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Ha! What are the chances all the girls ...
Ha! What are the chances all the girls will go "oh, Jeremeeee!" and all the boys will go "oh, god."
//didn't really dig it i'm ...
//didn't really dig it i'm afaid..
I'm agreeing with dust on this one
the programe never seemd to settle in to knowing what it was..
it fell short of every expectaion I had for it.... apart from the eye candy but that was dashed from my mind with Jason Gun / page 3 girl thingie.......... shudder
//What are the chances all the girls ...
//What are the chances all the girls will go "oh, Jeremeeee!" and all the boys will go "oh, god."
i'll take those odds! Jeremy is very good at appealing to benders from both genders actually. he does a good line in ambiguity.
i was at my mates house last night and ...
i was at my mates house last night and even at 9.30 i was at wgtn station wating for the train back home so i didnt see it.
Really i reckon the geezer who voices-over at the end of every programs oughta be defrocked and sent to work as a rice-farmer in Democratic Kampuchea.
i really enjoyed it....
i really enjoyed it.
i love jeremy wells. he sent me his ...
i love jeremy wells. he sent me his tshirt once.
good for you carl....
good for you carl.
I had higher hopes actually - that it ...
I had higher hopes actually - that it would be a more serious, critical look at media in NZ.
Could be that I'm humourless.
Humorless study of western media, ...
Humorless study of western media, reccomend Noam Chomsky, always thoughtprovoking, Paul feyerbend for a complete mindset revision.
i enjoyed it. next week looks pretty ...
i enjoyed it. next week looks pretty interesting. i think it may be the kind of series that doesn't last long because it might get a bit repetitive.
I thought it treaded a reasonable line ...
I thought it treaded a reasonable line between the funny/inane/stupid (e.g., the stuttering segment) and the more serious stuff, like the bullshitterazi, and a bit of a mention of the nztabloid.com stuff. Incidentally, if you are interested in following up the Helen Clark Sex Change scandal, I found the goods on public address (see link below).
It was also fun to see them drage out the archival footage of stuff as well.
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I actually never realised what a ...
I actually never realised what a drunkard Muldoon was until I watched that archive of him again last night.
and i always wondered why helen clark ...
and i always wondered why helen clark looks like a man.
Itsh great the way he schlurrs. "It ...
Itsh great the way he schlurrs.
"It doeshhn't give my oponentssh musch time either"
current media = TOOLs of corporations ...
current media = TOOLs of corporations to make us into dumb asses. Newsboy = savior.
errr... Newsboy = current media. So ...
errr... Newsboy = current media.
So how does that work, smarty?
Don't get sassy with me Hedge!...
Don't get sassy with me Hedge!
//Don't get sassy with me Hedge! ...
//Don't get sassy with me Hedge!
Don't avoid the question. How does that work? Think about it.
sheesh, i phrased my comment wrong (as ...
sheesh, i phrased my comment wrong (as you do) What i meant was "most programs these days" are making ppl dumb. And newsboy's program is a okay.
jeremy wells- i been in his mouth...
jeremy wells- i been in his mouth
dirty......
dirty...
mmm lunch ......
mmm lunch ...
I liked....
I liked.
me too....
me too.
uh huh....
uh huh.
After thinking it was quite good last ...
After thinking it was quite good last week, I thought today's effort was quite poor. Too much light ent, and no real content.
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Mike King's not amused......
Mike King's not amused...
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and a story in the herald on the same ...
and a story in the herald on the same topic...
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bFM are having a field-day. Hugh spoke ...
bFM are having a field-day. Hugh spoke to Newsboy this morning *and* called in a psychologist to (ahem) give some suggestions as to Mike King's state of mind.
..what I like is how King's saying it was just a joke. You'd think he'd have given up on trying to be funny by now.