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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.

  • 1Analysis of the BBC programme The Story of English, which is screening on Sunday afternoons. The programme notes that received pronunciation is an adopted way of speaking. A look at how picky viewers in New Zealanders are when it comes to presenters' accents and cultural cringe at the New Zealand accent. Analysis of satire and political humour aimed at former Cabinet Minister Richard Prebble.

    • Start 00 : 00 : 17
    • Finish 00 : 06 : 51
    • Duration 06 : 34
    Reporters
    • Neil Roberts (Presenter, Fourth Estate)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
Primary Title
  • Fourth Estate
Date Broadcast
  • Thursday 8 December 1988
Start Time
  • 19 : 20
Finish Time
  • 19 : 30
Duration
  • 10:00
Channel
  • TV One
Broadcaster
  • Television 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
  • Neil Roberts (Presenter)
Reporters
  • Neil Roberts (Presenter, Fourth Estate)
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