Fourth Estate
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.
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1New Zealand Listener columnist Bruce Ansley takes a critical look at the top issues relating to the media in the past week: including; 1. Calls for capital punishment in the wake of the Teresa Cormack murder 2. Simon Walker, Communicor and the 'secret agenda'. How did the media handle the leaks? 3. Analysis of how political polls are conducted - are the media being manipulated?
Primary Title
- Fourth Estate
Date Broadcast
- Friday 17 July 1987
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
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
- Bruce Ansley (Presenter)
Reporters
- Bruce Ansley (Journalist, New Zealand Listener)