NZ Herald’s “News” Is Shit and Lazy
April 12, 2016 – 2:58 pmtl;dr: Today's NZ Herald drove me to this analysis/rant. I'm giving the damn thing up and will get my news from other sites, Radio New Zealand and NewsHub. You should too. I can't imagine how disheartening it is to work as a journalist in New Zealand. Almost as disheartening as it is to be a news consumer in New Zealand. The newspapers are shit. I include Stuff, owned by Fairfax, in this as Stuff has become indistinguishable from the NZ Herald—they race to cover each other's stories and make sure nobody sees a different set of "news" when they visit the other's pages. There are two rays of hope, though: Radio New Zealand and NewsHub. I'd never have picked it, but TV3's NewsHub seems to cover more actual news than newspapers (or, perhaps, features Real News more prominently than Rugby Player In Celebrity Vajazzling Tragedy And What Does It Mean For Your House Prices stories). What do ...