Macca
I have zero sympathy for MediaWorks and their impending demise. In fact, I’m pretty positive that the vast majority here could give them a collective ‘we told you so’ as they walk out the door with their desk contents in a biodegradable cardboard box!
As small children, I’m sure we all had occasion to end an argument by putting fingers in ears and singing la, la, la, la to the persons view we were opposed to. If you actually shut your eyes, you could take it to the next level where all you could hear was the sound of your own voice. Of course, when the noise stopped and the ears were unplugged, reality set in that what the other person had said was correct and the situation had not changed.
Yet another prime example of the above was witnessed yesterday on talkback radio when the hapless Stephen McIvor valiantly sang the praises of MediaWorks for having the ‘best news’ and would immediately blag anyone saying anything to the contrary. All these la, la singers (including Williams and Plunket), need to do is have a listen to one of their own news readings in which there is obviously a rule of 3 being implemented:
- Jacinda/Greens/coalition wonderful
2. Imminent world destruction soon from Climate Change
3. Trump is an idiot.
Yet every time I have heard these three commentators confronted with this truth, the messenger is immediately shot and labelled a right-wing nut job. Of course, most of us ‘nut jobs’ trying to advise them either run our own businesses or have a fairly intimate knowledge of the simplicity of business being to make money so that you can eat!