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#3372066 10-May-2025 12:39

Small thing, I know. But if you are a journalist and write for a living... On Stuff:

"But the photo was later found screwed up, it’s frame smashed, near his abandoned vehicle near Lake Taupo in 2002."

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#3372090 10-May-2025 15:02

Do Not Disturb 🙄

Reuters - Pakistan says it has launched military offensive against India

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 10 - Pakistan said it launched a military operation against India early on Saturday, targeting multiple bases including a missile storage site in northern India as the neighbours extended their worst fighting in nearly three decades. ...

India's defence and foreign ministries did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.

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#3372760 13-May-2025 12:57

"Wellington Council cops as after damaged car sits in carpark for week"

What does that even mean?!

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#3372769 13-May-2025 13:22

The current heading on RNZ is "cops flak after". No idea whether that has been corrected.

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#3372774 13-May-2025 13:51

Yeah, it's been fixed. I originally read "cops" as "police" and was baffled!

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#3373478 15-May-2025 10:42

I'm sure this one's deliberate rather than dumb, but...

Those of you who watched Eurovision yesterday will likely have noticed when a camera failed. It turns out that it was a software crash. The Sun chose to report this as "chaos as camera crashes off stage during live performance"!

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#3374928 20-May-2025 12:15

Silly OneRoof headline and story in NZH today.

So what? We used to buy ice creams for thruppence when I was a kid in the 1950s.

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#3374935 20-May-2025 12:43

I wonder how much of the $11m will go as deferred council rates?

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#3375623 22-May-2025 14:17

I may be a bit out of the loop here (I haven't looked at the news over the past few days) but RNZ is talking about people protesting against the Pay Equity Bill, written like that, in title case. As far as I can tell, there's no such thing. There's an Equal Pay Amendment Bill, and that's presumably what they're protesting, but nowhere does RNZ actually state that.

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#3375679 22-May-2025 14:57

Come on folks. It's just a word missing in there:

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#3375691 22-May-2025 16:25

The Government its savings in the same place Stuff its words.

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#3376679 26-May-2025 10:01

Your team losing is always a possibility. You shouldn't let it ruin your day.

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#3376726 26-May-2025 12:19

Perhaps for the small annoying things thread but... news websites with a front page link to a story that doesn't accurately match. It is a form of dishonest clickbait.

Case in point todays Herald has on the front page a link "Hit Amazon series with Kiwi lead axed after three seasons". Clicking through (more fool me) the true story is revealed that "Despite a dramatic improvement in the show‘s ratings, the show‘s third season had its poorest performance yet on the Nielsen‘s Top 10 charts, which reflects US viewership and indicates a show‘s overall popularity."

Not really a hit anymore is it?