30-11-2021, 12:02 PM
True Olivemyrtle, it's ever evolving but there needs to be an element of impartiality when it comes to local media reporting.
Increasingly, we're seeing blurred lines between simple factual reporting and opinion. In the case of web-based media it's all about the clicks, which is why Stuff and NZ Herald is overloaded with one-sided opinion pieces and other Buzzfeed-lite tat their 20-something intern has uncovered while trawling through Reddit.
In the same way, the TV news seems to feel they need to drag in an 'expert' to say a piece to a socially-distanced camera or via a unflatteringly positioned webcam. When one expert says the complete opposite to another, then what exactly is an expert? Then they've got reporters intoning that "This is a bad look for so-and-so". This isn't their role. They shouldn't be telling us how we should be thinking.
It's frustrating.
Anyway, I'm not too worried about Omicron. It's just yet another 'thing' and if we start getting too focused on things then nothing else gets done.
Increasingly, we're seeing blurred lines between simple factual reporting and opinion. In the case of web-based media it's all about the clicks, which is why Stuff and NZ Herald is overloaded with one-sided opinion pieces and other Buzzfeed-lite tat their 20-something intern has uncovered while trawling through Reddit.
In the same way, the TV news seems to feel they need to drag in an 'expert' to say a piece to a socially-distanced camera or via a unflatteringly positioned webcam. When one expert says the complete opposite to another, then what exactly is an expert? Then they've got reporters intoning that "This is a bad look for so-and-so". This isn't their role. They shouldn't be telling us how we should be thinking.
It's frustrating.
Anyway, I'm not too worried about Omicron. It's just yet another 'thing' and if we start getting too focused on things then nothing else gets done.