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By the way, from my context critical in this one. I don't blame the weather forecasters as of mid-afternoon Friday. Mid-afternoon Friday they appeared at last to have a lockdown on what they thought would happen meteorologically over the weekend and they are not to be blamed for the fact that they were wrong. They're often wrong, that's weather, you can't do much more about it. Where I get increasingly embarrassed, saddened, upset and worried is when I'm able to make a statement on a subject that isn't is in the ensuing days when they didn't know what was going on, and yet they were still telling us to tie down our trampolines, clear our gutters, prepare our go bags, fear for our lives, close our shops, run for the hills, not drive on holidays, adjust our holiday travel period. And so my simple question is, at what point did they become so puffed up with their own self-importance? that they think editorial commentary around broad aspects of life are their domain. Equally embarrassing, I'm afraid to tell you, are the digital sites in this country, namely the Herald, who are the worst by a considerable margin, followed by Stuff and to a lesser extent Radio New Zealand, who spent the better part of the week building us up for the end of the world, essentially. Videos on go bags, what we need to tie down. How worried we should be, how we need to quote-unquote act now, all before a forecast was even locked in as to who would be affected, at what point and by how much. Now we've got to do something about this because it's the same story every time. They over-rig it, they do it for clicks, they do it for the wrong reasons, they're not concerned about you, they're concerned about their reputation, their revenue and the bottom line. That's all it boils down to. By frightening you and telling a bridge will be closed or a shop will be closed or your holiday will be ruined or your life is in danger or your go bag doesn't have enough sticking plasters. They want you to be fearful and full of angst and upset and worry and have your weekend ruined. And they need to at some point, somebody needs to sit these sites down and tell them to pull their finger out and grow up and start behaving like professionals. Apart from that, how was your weekend? News in a couple of moments, then sport.
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