Thursday, November 22, 2007

Priorities

What do we have on the front page of the Dominion Post today? A report about Sigourney Weaver filming in Wellington wondering why so many men have moustaches. Her photo takes up nearly a quarter of the page. Do I care? Should I care? I guess coverage of yesterday's march must be on page 2 or 3. Well no. Not there. Not anywhere in fact.

The NZ Herald covers it, TV3 covered it, NewstalkZB and Scoop. It's national news but not Wellington news.

And here's another question I am pondering. If the flipping of a 4-seater plane on the runway can close Wellington airport for 2 hours what will happen if a 180-seater comes to grief?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

More people want to see Sigourney Weaver than want to see a protest march.

We will have a Labour-led Government again because they know what people want and give it to them.

Seamonkey Madness said...

Yes - I think the biggest backlash Labour has had in the last month or so, is when they threatened to ban (there's that word again!) flat-screen LCD televisions.

Tells you a lot about the average NZ pleb.