TUMEKE!: How awful can the Herald get?

Saturday, June 19, 2010

How awful can the Herald get?

Ok, I was shocked that the Herald on Sunday won best paper at the Qantas Corporate Media 'good ole boy' Backslap awards last week (because the HoS is really, really, really, awful), but not as shocked as their latest abortion that passes for news in todays Weak-end Herald, look at this shit...

Expenses error costly for Brown
Aucklanders eyeing the Super City mayoral contest are deserting Manukau Mayor Len Brown following his council credit card breaches, a survey shows. An online survey of readers of the Herald and other APN publications shows 13.6 per cent of respondents have switched allegiance from Mr Brown to Auckland City Mayor John Banks, or another candidate. Even though the survey is unscientific, the large number respondents - 1537 readers of the Herald, Herald on Sunday, the Aucklander and Woman's Weekly - provides an interesting take on the two weeks of intense political and media scrutiny of Mr Brown's credit card expenses.

...Bernard Orsman you should be embarrassed for writing this, a totally unscientific poll based on the Heralds on line readers poll which are about as fair and balanced as the Fox News on line readers poll? How the hell is that news? That the Herald can even attempt to write this muck up as a story is a little beyond my tolerance. I feel a letter coming on...

Dear Herald
Coming up with news stories based on whatever brainfart your online panel of bored and lonely readers cough up is not news.

I refuse to pay money for this shit.

Yours
M. Bradbury

7 Comments:

At 19/6/10 1:58 pm, Adolf Fiinkensein said...: You forgot to slap yourself on the head.
At 19/6/10 2:34 pm, Carlos Ropehana said...: They even admit themselves that it's unscientific. What terrible reporting.
At 19/6/10 2:41 pm, ianmac said...: You are rather muted in your comments Bomber. I really thought that the Herald Brown story was worse than you said.
I guess that the Herald prints what the uncritical folks want to hear.
At 19/6/10 5:04 pm, Anonymous said...: Which head do your slap fiinkensein?
At 19/6/10 8:36 pm, Johnson said...: "LEAVE LEN ALOOOOOOOOOOOONE."

Don't like it? Don't buy it then, and let the market work its wonders.
At 20/6/10 3:38 pm, bc said...: Len Brown is doing a perfectly good job of ruining his credibility - he doesn't need the HOS to help him.
After all he must be deliberately trying to lose right?
The bizarre head and chest slapping is surely the sign of a man cracking up. And then to say that it was a Maori gesture - priceless!
At 21/6/10 4:08 pm, Anonymous said...: Colour me confused but the graphic aimed depicts the Sydney Morning Herald which is a Fairfax publication? Whereas you have rightly pointed out HOS is an APN publication.