Media Matters: Turning celebrity tweets into 'news'
Campbell Gibson and Nick Grant discuss some of the week's big media stories on NBR Radio and on demand on MyNBR Radio.
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On Media Matters this week, John Campbell joining Radio New Zealand is not discussed because the news broke several hours after recording.
Instead, Nick Grant continues his increasingly convincing impression of a curmudgeon as he complains about the proliferation of trivia masquerading as news on New Zealand’s mainstream media website sites.
His main example: the number of stories the NZ Herald website managed to milk from a tweet actor-comedian-musician Jermaine Clement made about something tweeted by Bachelor NZ “star” Matilda Rice earlier this week.
This non-news (made all the more nonsensical by Mr Clement deleting the tweet that prompted the ‘stories’ in the first place) was soon purloined by Stuff, which added its own incoherent, factually incorrect spin to proceedings (see photo), indicating that perhaps Fairfax was unwise to do away with its sub editors after all.
Campbell Gibson, meanwhile, talks about the way StopPress’ Ben Fahy used NBR’s announcement that it is eliminating the majority of its website ads as the hook for a thoughtful article about the evolving nature of digital media.
Mr Gibson also discusses what the difficulties experienced by Snakk Media suggest about online business models.
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Thu, 06 Aug 2015
Thu, 06 Aug 2015
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Media Matters: Turning celebrity tweets into 'news'
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