On the front page of NZ Herald online, 28 items about bloody rugby! Bread and circuses writ large. ‘Feed ’em drivel and propaganda’ seems to be Herald policy.
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
On the front page of NZ Herald online, 28 items about bloody rugby! Bread and circuses writ large. ‘Feed ’em drivel and propaganda’ seems to be Herald policy.
Totally agree,Completely over it and the so called news on the trash viewer every bloody night.
In NZ, TV news items are blagged off YouTube.
Must be.
I’m not arguing it’s not outrageous, and one of the main reasons the antique media is dying a slow, agonising death. That said …
(1) it’s not like there’s anything else happening in the world right now. At least, nothing on the scale of 30 thugs who would otherwise likely be imprisoned for what they do within those white lines for those 80 minutes, and
(2) it was exactly the same when we lived in Melbourne, but it was every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday between the months of February and November, when the first 20+ pages were devoted to that ludicrous sport I call the Bogan’s Ballet (but which, for some unknown reason, my Australian friends insist on calling “AFL” or, simply, “footie”).
It’s kind of like being on the Titanic after the ship hits the iceberg and is slowly sinking in the cold North Atlantic while the band plays on…
Be fair to the Herald. When I looked a few minutes ago there were some major stories -apparently Boy George slept with Prince, Robbie (I think) Williams’ dressing room demands, Odom Lamar comes out of a coma, someone stabbed himself with his eel spear. It’s not as if the Herald is an unbalanced, punserious tabloid.
Bah – unserious.
punserious fits perfectly.
“Professional” rugby travels in the same brain-dead orbit as any day-time TV reality show. And like all such productions, in both content and puppeteered choreography its focus is on ‘brand equity management’; an attribute the WRC’s money-men prize more than any gimcrack tin cups.
Sadly pro-rugby’s main shortcoming is revealed when its executive producers look up at the mountain top to see that Wrestlemania and Top Gear re-runs remain more polished and entertaining.
…it comes from being hit in the head too many times…brain damage…as American low life NFL footballs players and heavy weight boxers have proven.
But the thing is any country in the world at least half the people have low I.Q.s – so the almost brain dead have a following.
@Ronbo: I couldn’t find the boxer [Sir] Bob Jones managed who quit to teach higher mathematics, but here’s another http://www.abqjournal.com/460756
Rugby? What rugby. There’s no rugby here worth any fuss and bother. Not here in England, anyway.