Comments on: Dumb News

By: Murray Hewitt

Murray Hewitt — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:40:21 +0000

Sorry mate I’m neither. Murray Hewitt is just a devastatingly clever pseudonym (that I stole from Flight of the Conchords).

By: Peter Skilling

Peter Skilling — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:31:40 +0000

Hey, Murray Hewitt! Are you the Murray Hewitt from Flight of the Conchords, or the Murray Hewitt I know in Wellington, or another Murray Hewitt altogether?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:26:05 +0000

A few years ago Bob McNeill reporting on the future of the old Mangere Bridge once the new bridge was completed. He finished the story with something along the lines of “some people want the bridge to be pulled down, some want it to stay and some don’t care”. Thanks Bob.

By: Владислав Голованов

Владислав Голованов — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:57:49 +0000

Да, автор блога молодец! Пишите еще!

By: Max

Max — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:47:46 +0000

Oh , PS: Hopefully something ELSE that has NOT appeared on NZ TV? I hope? Is the endless eulogies to Micheal Jackson ! Yeesh! I built an independent radio station, I live music and what he’s done, but … really, enough! Tell me y’all do NOT have an endless update on MJ ?

By: Max

Max — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:40:47 +0000

Y’all unfortunately just described TV news in Richmond Virginia US as well. Apparently its a universal phenomenon. And we probably kill more people in Richmond than all of NZ does. So our idea of sports is the 10 minutes of murder news. And I moved to Richmond feeling perfectly safe after growing up in South Florida US where there are literally places where the police just don’t go and burned inverted cars lay in the streets. West Palm Beach bulldozed three entire miles of beautiful moorish influenced buildings built as your “crap buildings”are … except ours were still standing after 1 to 3 hurricanes every year for about 70 years … bulldozed not because the buildings were bad but because bad people lived in them ! That was my cue to leave West Palm Beach. I have to admit I’m having second thoughts on NZ after reading about an apparent orgy of historic building demolition. Richmond sent almost 2000 buildings into the landfills just in the 1990s alone …

Now that’s news, but it never appeared on TV.

By: Elisha

Elisha — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:16:02 +0000

You’re just lucky you were here on a brief visit, we have to put up with this shit every day!

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:25:02 +0000

bro for starters have you seen a weta – they are bloody scary. scary enough to send a young couple to an early grave but this elderly couple have gotten off lightly seeing they are still alive. and secondly it’s tip top that’s the best ice cream man.

By: Murray Hewitt

Murray Hewitt — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:06:24 +0000

I am amazed no-one here is discussing the 10 minute story I saw on a brief trip to NZ discussing how an elderly couple discovered a Weta in their Tip Top Vanilla ice cream. Talk about compelling and rich.

By: The Spectacle of the Celebrity Death « (Manifesto of Nothing.)

The Spectacle of the Celebrity Death « (Manifesto of Nothing.) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:42:08 +0000

[...] of New Zealand news and current affairs isn’t already at an all-time low (and believe me, it is), now we have to put up with repetitive stories mining the death of a has-been celebrity. [...]