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Column Comment in the 60s and News Stand in the 70s established a tradition of print media scrutiny by TV. Fourth Estate succeeded them with a brief expanded to include radio, TV and magazines. For 12 minutes on Friday nights, no media outlet (and especially not broadcaster TVNZ) was safe from the ruminations of journalism lecturer Brian Priestley, along with John Kennedy, editor of the Catholic weekly The Tablet, and guest presenters. Only brief programme excerpts and graphics of the newspaper articles under discussion provide visual relief.

  • 1Sean Brown presents a critical review of: 1. The issue of journalistic ethics, as illustrated by the Des Tucker heart transplant case 2. United States President Reagan's arms-for-hostages trade off 3. The new 6.30pm TV News format

    • Start 0 : 00 : 32
    • Finish 00 : 12 : 00
    • Duration 11 : 28
    Reporters
    • Shaun Brown (Presenter, Fourth Estate)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
Primary Title
  • Fourth Estate
Date Broadcast
  • Friday 21 November 1986
Start Time
  • 21 : 00
Finish Time
  • 21 : 15
Duration
  • 15:00
Channel
  • TV One
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Owning Organisation
  • Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand
Programme Description
  • Column Comment in the 60s and News Stand in the 70s established a tradition of print media scrutiny by TV. Fourth Estate succeeded them with a brief expanded to include radio, TV and magazines. For 12 minutes on Friday nights, no media outlet (and especially not broadcaster TVNZ) was safe from the ruminations of journalism lecturer Brian Priestley, along with John Kennedy, editor of the Catholic weekly The Tablet, and guest presenters. Only brief programme excerpts and graphics of the newspaper articles under discussion provide visual relief.
Classification
  • Not Classified
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captioning Languages
  • Maori
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
  • Commentary
Hosts
  • Shaun Brown (Presenter)
Reporters
  • Shaun Brown (Presenter, Fourth Estate)
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