NZ Herald – is it a news outlet?
June 17, 2009
Just looked at the NZ Herald site after a day of researching issues for business.
It is dreadful, first story Bollard jawboning, then a TV personality story.
Well at least it was not rugby.
Iran way down the page. The French rugby team being pelted with bottles in Dunedin was much more important.
This all reminds Adam of his first vist to NZ in 1977.
His thoughts then were that if WWIII broke out, it would be on the cable page after farming news and rugby.
Iran is more important than rugby.
Business and trade is more important than sport.
Just what is the NZ Herald these days?
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Before cancelling your subscription, please inform the editor of the NZ Herald the kind of news that you seek.
Warn them that lower standards , such as seeping a paper dominated by recycled press releases and fluff and nonsense, will mean you will not buy the paper any more.
The beancounters think that money can be saved by cutting journalists which means cutting quality. But if the powers that be see that ‘savings’ cannot be made by putting out an inferior product, the less likely they will try and do it.
Of course, for years we have seen papers in a spiral of decline.
The beancounters order cost cutting, the standard of the publication falls, which leads to a loss of sales, which then fuels further costcutting.
Readers need to make a stand that they will not accept any more such costcutting that affects quality.
It maybe that the current corporate model for papers no longer works, it maybe that APN, Fairfax, etc, will have to rely on smaller profits. For years as a per centage of revenue, newspapers have been very profitable businesses. The owners will just have to realise that times have changed and the cow does not have quite as much milk now as it used to.
and it seems to have a lot less content. I’m even thinking of cancelled my sub.
Adam,
The herald used to have some merit, but now it seems to be merely press releases rehashed. And Garth George.
Definately NOT a ‘news’ paper.