ODT Watch - 14

by Ben Thomson | 10:24 pm 11/07/2010

Channel 9 is a local television station owned by Allied Press, whose other esteemed media offerings are the ODT and the Star.

Interesting quiz they had on their website last week.

So, what do you think?

Even better, though, is the “10,000 tonnes” ODT front-pager. According to the reporter, if the promoter says it’s 10,000 tonnes, it must be correct. 

But seriously, think about it – if a truck can carry about 30 tonnes, that’s over 300 trucks driving into a city area and dumping a battleship-load of dirt on Carisbrook.

Are they trying to bury it?

And since Critic is putting together a Travel Issue, we thought it a good idea to learn from the best. Naturally we turned to Tuesday’s Signal magazine lift-out. It’s supposed to be about TV listings but you never know. Oh look, the best column, entitled ‘[Not] Remotely Interesting’ is about the launch of the new Travel Channel on Sky.

And we quote from the beginning: “I have always been sceptical about travel. How does one know, for instance, there really are any countries in the world other than New Zealand? Who’s to say the aeroplane pilot doesn't take you a couple of hundred kilometres out to sea, turn around, land somewhere, then tell you you are in Mexico?”

Like, what?

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