Being a news junkie, I take at least SOME issue with what my compatriot says above. Generally we get about half an hour of local (including Oz) news and then quarter of an hour to twenty minutes of international news,Once again, Max has demonstrated his failure to grasp the arcane concept of clearly communicating thought content.
What I
meant to say, was that NZ TV had quite good non-local coverage when measured against ABC's World News Tonght, the only US news show I see on a regular basis. As much as I enjoy listening to Peter Jennings, it does seem that "World News" is something of a misnomer for that bulletin, as its amount of non-US news makes the 20-25% non-local content in our news look very good. On a related note, I was horrified and very angry to read yesterday that TVNZ is dumping its link with BBC World. No more Hardtalk, no more real
world news
. If I didn't have acess to this internet thingy I would be even more of an ignorant buffoon than I am.
