Classic stuff.co.nz fail - 'what happened to hard news'

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#150155 13-Jul-2014 11:32

When you click the link entitled "what happened to hard news" on the stuff home page you get "page not found". Classic!

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#1088046 13-Jul-2014 12:47

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/10253911/Whatever-happened-to-hard-news
The main message I got from the article is that domestic current affairs is diminishing with budgets not sufficient. That's why we are seeing more foreign current affairs on shows like 20/20 and Sunday. I am disappointed but not surprised that the article didn't give me to grasp about "what happened to hard news".

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#1088048 13-Jul-2014 12:56

They fixed the link eventually then.

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#1088049 13-Jul-2014 12:58

Hammerer: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/10253911/Whatever-happened-to-hard-news

There's something amusing about posting a non-clickable link in a thread about broken links :)

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#1088112 13-Jul-2014 16:45

I find the new 7sharp format gagworthy. It's like those male/female Australian news shows. Imho it's out of step with the times and a giant step backwards. But realistically it reflects a change in the demographic for the audience in that timeslot and the programmers are just confused about it.

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#1088130 13-Jul-2014 17:37

This year, Seven Sharp has been pulling an average of 430,000 viewers in the 5+ demographic per episode.

So, it's a children's show?

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#1088132 13-Jul-2014 17:39

So stop watching it if it is bothering you? Why watch crappy TV news shows and then complain about them. Just admit you are not in their target audience and do stuff online.

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#1088250 13-Jul-2014 21:06

Yeah I stopped after 5 random minutes. In the previous format Jesse Mulligan usually kept me entertained until at least the first ad-break.

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#1088824 14-Jul-2014 19:05

Behodar:
Hammerer: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/10253911/Whatever-happened-to-hard-news

There's something amusing about posting a non-clickable link in a thread about broken links :)

There's also something similarly ironic/amusing about an article lamenting the dearth of hard news appearing on the Stuff website