TVNZ 7 on Breakfast this morning

Jesus, watching the grilling Ellie gave Russell Brown and the new TVNZ 7 host of the 8pm news was jaw dropping, you could actually sense the disdain Breakfast (the ‘proper’ news) were radiating towards them both, I mean TVNZ 7 WILL be the most interesting current affairs on TV (aside form what we are doing on Alt with Lets be Frank, SNBC and Green Core of course), but the animosity on display this morning really highlighted how desperately in need we are to have TVNZ 7 if that’s how threatened the mainstream TVNZ feels towards having actual ideas and real debate in news rather than the dumb and dumber news spat out of the current network machine. Once we had to rely on Jeremy Wells to use a critical eye at TVNZ, it’s nice to see that TVNZ 7 and TVNZ 6 will be really pushing to create more.