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#3256153 4-Jul-2024 08:45

Headlines aside the story itself raises perfectly valid points imo:

Newshub: I sent him a selfie of me and a bunch of my girlfriends at 15, drinking Vodka Cruisers. A selfie with us all holding them, saying 'oh - come to my party - come to my party'. This was his response."

It was a selfie of Seymour, with the message "Can't I'm afraid but you guys have a great night and be safe".

Seymour replied to one invitation from her: "Hope you are not in trouble! Awww, thanks for the invite!"

Many parents would be uncomfortable about this tacit approval of 15y/o drinking from an authority figure. I know I am. Hypothetically all the parents may well have approved and be supervising in the background there. All the same it looks like tacit approval and a proportion of parents are guaranteed to have feelings about that.

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#3256158 4-Jul-2024 09:08

gzt: Headlines aside the story itself raises perfectly valid points imo:

Newshub: I sent him a selfie of me and a bunch of my girlfriends at 15, drinking Vodka Cruisers. A selfie with us all holding them, saying 'oh - come to my party - come to my party'. This was his response."

It was a selfie of Seymour, with the message "Can't I'm afraid but you guys have a great night and be safe".

Seymour replied to one invitation from her: "Hope you are not in trouble! Awww, thanks for the invite!"

Many parents would be uncomfortable about this tacit approval of 15y/o drinking from an authority figure. I know I am. Hypothetically all the parents may well have approved and be supervising in the background there. All the same it looks like tacit approval and a proportion of parents are guaranteed to have feelings about that.

Or take it to the other extreme: "Feral, binge-drinking, teenagers run rampant on social media. Parents clueless and unable to control".

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#3256197 4-Jul-2024 11:08

If you don't want your kid communicating with randos on the internet, don't let them have a device and apps that has it as the sole purpose of its existence.

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#3256199 4-Jul-2024 11:15

richms:

If you don't want your kid communicating with randos on the internet, don't let them have a device and apps that has it as the sole purpose of its existence.

This.

Parents need to be responsible. Now that's new concept these days.

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#3256211 4-Jul-2024 11:53

heavenlywild:

Parents need to be responsible. Now that's new concept these days.

Sorry that's no longer part of the education curriculum. It disappeared when common sense was also cancelled.

Lazy is such an ugly word, I prefer to call it selective participation

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#3256233 4-Jul-2024 13:16

heavenlywild:
richms: If you don't want your kid communicating with randos on the internet, don't let them have a device and apps that has it as the sole purpose of its existence.
This. Parents need to be responsible. Now that's new concept these days.

An MP is not a 'rando on the internet' and I think most parents would feel no cause for concern if a child wanted to follow a well known national politician on social media and they would assume any messages exchanged were relevant to that. Many parents have responsible use policies they discuss with their kids as a condition for device use. Headlines aside it doesn't surprise me those who were kids in 2016 now ready to be parents in 2024 eight years later think back on those messages and feel a little uncomfortable about the response and the tone in retrospect.

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#3256286 4-Jul-2024 17:03

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/newshub-closure-all-the-hosts-that-graced-our-screens-over-the-years/MQ7BTBTAGFGANDRCV4R3CZGSC4/

The Herald takes a detailed look at all the faces that have graced TV3 news/current affairs room over the years. I remember a fair few of these!

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#3256522 5-Jul-2024 09:12

I just watched the closing stages of the AM show's last ever show.

Man, there's a lot of people (talented people) who are going to be looking for work.
It's very sad for the broadcasting industry.

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#3256552 5-Jul-2024 10:45

I watched it too, very sad. Hopefully someone like Patrick Gower (who isn't mentioned as going on to anything else) can find something too. Ditto Eric Young, who had a very moving piece in the Herald about it all today:

https://archive.ph/5UCgp

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#3256555 5-Jul-2024 10:49

Patrick hosted the Kings Birthday morning show on RNZ and did a great job. Hopefully at some stage they might be able to bring him back in a more permanent capacity.

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#3256556 5-Jul-2024 10:54

You realise how close many of them were when you hear individuals talk about what life will be like afterwards - Mitch McCann was saying he now works as an agency reporter and does live crosses for multiple networks, but he's largely now on his own - you could actually see how that made him feel, when he said it.
People like Melissa Chan-Green and Amanda Gillies who have said openly that that just don't know what they are going to do now and need time to think about it.

Great to see some of them getting work, but some of it will be short stints or part-time and that's just the front-of-house talent. The many other people who will lose their jobs and be wondering what's next get left unmentioned - the camera and lighting techs, the sound and editing staff, the makeup and hair and wardrobe people, the floor managers and other countless people that do behind the scenes work to keep these shows running.

Awful stuff - but as Chan-Green said this morning - there are also many people who are facing the same in many industries. The economy has been toast for some time and there are a lot of people hurting.

This was just a very visual representation of it.

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#3256580 5-Jul-2024 12:00

Amanda Gillies is married to Tim Murphy so may well get a role at Newsroom. The rest of the on-air talent are likely to end up in comms roles, although that sector is under pressure at the moment due to government downsizing.

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#3256646 5-Jul-2024 14:27

alasta:

Amanda Gillies is married to Tim Murphy so may well get a role at Newsroom. The rest of the on-air talent are likely to end up in comms roles, although that sector is under pressure at the moment due to government downsizing.

It's amazing to read that people like Mark Richardson have done the full pivot - he now does wealth advisory stuff for (I think it's Forsythe Barr?).

And I have been to a few corporate things where there are former TV personalities doing hosting and MC work.

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#3256651 5-Jul-2024 14:40

I have a relative who used to work as a journalist. She pivoted recently to doing comms for a Government department, and now they're looking to downsize everything, so she has a high chance of potentially losing her job - so it is indeed a tough time (and she's quite talented too).

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#3256751 5-Jul-2024 18:34

My Newshub has stopped at 6.30. Is this a coincidence or is it nationwide? It keeps buffering. Still doing it 6.35pm

Still at 6.43 and everything else seems fine.

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