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#3483844 25-Apr-2026 04:22

In RNZ: Jones apologises for Willis weight loss jab

Maybe not strictly a dumb headline, but in poor taste given the rumours around Willis weight loss method.

Or maybe I read too much into it.

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#3483848 25-Apr-2026 07:12

lachlanw: In RNZ: Jones apologises for Willis weight loss jab Maybe not strictly a dumb headline, but in poor taste given the rumours around Willis weight loss method. Or maybe I read too much into it.

Personally I haven't encountered that rumor. Where have you seen or heard that?

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#3483849 25-Apr-2026 07:18

lachlanw: In RNZ: Jones apologises for Willis weight loss jab. Maybe not strictly a dumb headline, but in poor taste given the rumours around Willis weight loss method. Or maybe I read too much into it.

It is a common expression. The other possibilities may not have occurred to the writer. For example Stuff and NZ Herald use of AI for headlines and subheadings. I don't see that on RNZ. I do see that phrasing in a TVNZ article subheading:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/23/shane-jones-apologises-for-nicola-willis-weight-loss-comment/

"Shane Jones has apologised after making a jab at the Finance Minister's weight loss as the coalition ructions shift gears into personal attacks"

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#3483874 25-Apr-2026 11:17

This was the first paragraph of the front page news story of the physical Post on Monday, about Sunday's rainfall in Wellington. I think I understand what they were trying to say but it makes very little sense. It's like every second sentence has been deleted.

The year was 1976. First years on, Neil Baker can recall the floods that ravaged Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt. Saturday's deluge proved to be the closest contender.

AI rewrite:

"On Saturday, heavy rains swept through Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt, producing the most severe flooding there since 1976 — the year a deluge devastated the community, an event longtime resident Neil Baker still remembers."

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#3483878 25-Apr-2026 12:12

gzt: BBC discovers baby food producing band HiPP

For anyone who claims bad BBC headlines do not exist ; ).

Almost not an error given the former HiPP CEO, Claus Hipp, plays the oboe in an orchestra!

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#3483886 25-Apr-2026 13:40

@TinyTim:

This was the first paragraph of the front page news story of the physical Post on Monday, about Sunday's rainfall in Wellington. I think I understand what they were trying to say but it makes very little sense. It's like every second sentence has been deleted.

The year was 1976. ~~First~~ Fifty years on, Neil Baker can recall the floods that ravaged Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt. Saturday's deluge proved to be the closest contender.

If you ar pointing errors better not mess up..

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#3483906 25-Apr-2026 16:06

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#3484407 26-Apr-2026 13:03

Stuff slight spelling mistake.

Buildings ablaze and armed police prescene in central North Island

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#3486071 1-May-2026 10:22

As probably everyone knows, aboriginal people have a taboo regarding images or names of those who have died. Yet both NZ and Australian media are prominently displaying the picture of the little girl who was tragically killed in such a manner that it is almost impossible to avoid seeing, and then just above or below it is a text warning not to look at it! To my mind this is incredibly dumb, as well as appallingly insensitive.

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