Sometimes the obvious just needs to be stated, and sometimes
it takes a foreigner to say it.
Stuff reports on an article appearing in the Bristol Post
about a UK man and his wife Mike and Yvonne Rowland, holed up in a dinky
hotel room in Auckland - see HERE.
Their main sufferance is watching breakfast TV, presumably
having tired of all other activities like having another cup of tea, reading an
ebook, or watching the wind blow leaves about their non-existent courtyard.
Mike said the breakfast news here is like a sixth form
experiment compared to Good Morning Britain. He added, "It really is
desperate. Piers Morgan is a God compared to what we are looking at."
He's right of course - about breakfast news being like a
sixth form experiment.
Most New Zealanders have known this for many years which
would explain why so few people have cereals and TV for breakfast nowadays. It
does seem like morning TV here, One in particular, can't really make up its
mind who its audience is.
Mike may be a bit generous when saying its pitched
for six formers, but his point more generally is that its certainly not intended
for grown-ups seeking to be informed, at least one hopes not.
Fortunately for Mike and the rest of us, there's no shortage
of radio stations to listen to and thanks to modern gadgets we can tune in to
virtually any station any where in the world and hope they are doing a better
job than our local channels.
And then there is always virtual sport, which is
the only sport being played at present.
I am anxiously waiting for virtual
fishing, given only people like the Deputy Prime Minister can do it for real nowadays.
Virtual mountain biking would also be good, so bikers and the Minister of
Health can do that without getting dobbed in by their neighbours.
Maybe virtual fishing and virtual mountain biking could
screen on breakfast TV?
The mental well-being of Mike from Bristol may depend
on it!
Frank
Newman, a writer and investment analyst, is a former local body
councillor.
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