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<p>If all these journos and newsreaders were so damn good.... wouldn't the ratings have been better?</p>
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<p>If you read between the lines though there is a growing bunch of disaffected ex media works employees (and their friends) ready and willing to have a snipe at the organisation. My guess is that is what this coverage is trying to do.</p>
<p>I think it is well beyond proof that Stuff is lightweight fluff with barely the touch of an editor let alone anyone with journalistic credibility.</p>
<p>If I open the site or app I go in fully aware of that and am ready to skip past many headlines.</p>
<p><strong>Be honest though Jegga, you showed your true colours in another thread on Hilary Barry and only BSG chipped in to agree with you so you are having another dig here. Apparently she deserves your scorn because she has ideals left of centre and of course anyone like that gets lumped in with the far left in your eyes. As for your comment about her and Mandela do you really think she called the shots on that one? Pretty good for a mere auto cue reader to control the news purse strings like that don't you agree?</strong></p>
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<p>That was on the other thread about tv shows, where it belonged I thought. I never liked her betraying her politics when she read the news in much the same way as I can't watch Henry or Hoskings, thats not her job and at the time I found her travelling to be there for Mandelas death funny and sad at the same time. I started a thread about it at the time and iirc quite a few other people agreed the vulture like behaviour of the press was pretty appalling even more so when they got tired of waiting for him to die and came home. </p>
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<p>My comments on this thread are about the over the top attention her resignations has received by stuff on a thread about stuff, Mark Jennings is gone after 23 years there , Campbell live is Campbell dead, 3d went and took about 13 employees with it, David Farrier has gone , Scout was stillborn, they lost home and away and the simpsons and an executive there was recently in court for smashing a lower ranking co workers desk with a hammer while she was sitting at it. I get it, tv3 is not a happy place to be at the moment but it's been poorly run for most of its life so thats not exactly exactly earth shattering news is it? But six articles[and counting] in a little over 24 hours about Hillary Barry changing jobs?Thats pathetic, if she had died I could understand it.</p>
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<p>Still can't understand why you decided to take me to task about actually discussing something that related to the thread topic , but there you go .I don't recall ever lumping her in with the far left either so thats in your imagination.</p> -
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<p>Herald reporter lands a big scoop:<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11631550">US tourist: New Zealand Airbnb host stole my husband</a><br><br>
Next up, someone said something mean on twitter.</p>
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<p>Shame there aren't photos of the two women in question. It's pretty odd to turn your back on a marriage for someone you've known for a week, there might be slightly more to this than she's letting on I reckon.</p> -
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<p>That was on the other thread about tv shows, where it belonged I thought. I never liked her betraying her politics when she read the news in much the same way as I can't watch Henry or Hoskings, thats not her job and at the time I found her travelling to be there for Mandelas death funny and sad at the same time. I started a thread about it at the time and iirc quite a few other people agreed the vulture like behaviour of the press was pretty appalling even more so when they got tired of waiting for him to die and came home. </p>
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<p>Still can't understand why you decided to take me to task about actually discussing something that related to the thread topic , but there you go .I don't recall ever lumping her in with the far left either so thats in your imagination.</p>
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<p>Presumably to shut you down from posting things he disagrees with?</p>
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<p>Don' t know, but you got a mention as being the only person to respond which annoyed me enough to post on this thread apparently. </p>
<p>I'd be in a straight jacket by now if I got annoyed with people ignoring the shit I say either here , at work or at home.</p> -
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<p>Don' t know, but you got a mention as being the only person to respond which annoyed me enough to post on this thread apparently. </p>
<p>I'd be in a straight jacket by now if I got annoyed with people ignoring the shit I say either here , at work or at home.</p>
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<p>That is ok, I had someone tell me that their post was correct because 4 people hit the like button on it....</p> -
<p>It is lead now.. apparently the news is that it was not talked about...</p>
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<p>That is ok, I had someone tell me that their post was correct because 4 people hit the like button on it....</p>
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<p>Haha, thanks for not mentioning my name on that one.</p>
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<p>When Campbell left and people were all over Stuff commenting and crying as if their family had been slaughtered in some third world country I made the absolutely fatal mistake of commenting that he was a master at only taking one side of any given story to make himself look good and that he was campaigning for the "little guy". Fucken hell, the illiterates sure tore me a new one that day, I got told amongst other things I was a "one of da haterz" and that "your one of those fullas who thinks there better than everyone".......</p>
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<p>If a famous person I dig and admire dies then I'm the first to admit I get a bit upset, the Prince thread is proof of that....</p>
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<p>But Campbell, Barry et all......ARE FUCKEN NEWS READERS......not music/film/sporting icons ( who incidentally are not even dead ). So what if they've been in our living rooms for almost as long as I remember ? So has an oil stain on my carpet.</p> -
<p>By all accounts she is a nice lady who connected with a lot of people thanks to her non-stuffy, non-up herself asshat personality, but by God, the stuff headlines are getting beyond a joke.</p>
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<p>She's a newsreader. She's been there 20-something years. No one has died.</p>
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<p>If a famous person I dig and admire dies then I'm the first to admit I get a bit upset, the Prince thread is proof of that....</p>
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<p>But Campbell, Barry et all......ARE FUCKEN NEWS READERS......not music/film/sporting icons ( who incidentally are not even dead ). So what if they've been in our living rooms for almost as long as I remember ? So has an oil stain on my carpet.</p>
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<p>I rarely watch 3 News so Hilary doesn't much register with me. But, if she's been there for 23 years, for an hour per night, then some people have spent nearly a year of their lives in her company. It's probably worth them being a bit downhearted that she's leaving - she really is a "mate".... as much as you fuckers are to me on the fern, which is to say that when the Titanic is going down and you're all going down the plughole, it's still going to be Rose's hand that gets grabbed and pulled to safety. :)</p>
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<p>Cheer up - if it's me who's going plughole and you who decides who lives, most of you fluffybunnies will choose to save your iPhones. </p>
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<p>Some people have spent two years of their lives watching Coronation Street. Thankfully I gave up around the time Stan Ogden died. But, William Roach has spent most of his adult life pretending to be Ken Barlow. Which is more meaningful than many people's working lives! </p>
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<p>she hasn't been tv3s news anchor for 23 years. She took over when Campbell got his own pulpit.... I mean show . Like him she hasn't died she's just moved from one highly paid job to thd next , stuffs reaction was bizarre .</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/hilary-barry.html'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/hilary-barry.html</a></p>
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<p>She seems like a lovely person. Look at all the tributes.</p>
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<p>She seems like a lovely person. Look at all the tributes.</p>
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<p>Can I get her 23 years of news reading on DVD?</p>
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<p>She seems like a lovely person. Look at all the tributes.</p>
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<p>Can I get her 23 years of news reading on DVD?</p>
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<p>That's completely over the top Chris B. I think a "Christmas in the Park" type tribute show with the cream of New Zealands music talent like Dave Dobbyn, The Feelers, Herbs, Bic Runga interspersed with hilarious anecdotes and news reading highlights co hosted by John Campbell and Mike McRoberts is much more suitable. Perhaps we could organize a fern get together before the show ?</p> -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/79472541/we-love-you-hilary--nation-reacts-to-shock-resignation'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/79472541/we-love-you-hilary--nation-reacts-to-shock-resignation</a></p>
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<p>Talk about multi tasking, she's mother of the nation as well.</p>
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<p>Just to clarify, am I missing something ? she definitely hasn't died aye ?</p>