FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) No Wonder Noboy's Paying for It/Feeling Weird About the Socials/Sleep-Driving Is Serious/How Cats Control Us
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Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we are looking back at Wednesday and Seymour and co. And their snapchats historical snapchats. This is a social media storm and a key peekup the serious consequences of falling asleep at the wheel and it was Kat Talk Wednesday with Marcus. But before any of that, this digital news bill trying to get big tech to pay for their news, just carry think that can happen? Will it be effective? Let's find out.
I don't know that giving television the ability to advertise on Sundays and public holidays is going to save it either. I'm not sure the revenue that's going to come and is even remotely going to help in terms of keeping traditional media, mainstream media alive. Is it simply delaying the inevitable? Where do you get your news from? Where do you get trusted sources of information? Do you also go to places where you find yourself railing at either the announcer or the tenor of the interview or the information just so you can hear another side, or do you prefer to hear your own views reinforced? Do you still check in with the mainstream media websites? Is there anyone still getting a newspaper delivered? When my mum gave up her subscription, I thought, well, it's it. That's the end of that.
I thought to myself, is it just going to have to transform itself completely in terms of not only how it delivers news, but what it delivers, what sort of information you want?
So, yeah, Kerry taking a sort of a more holistic view of things there, and what is the future in fact, what is the present state of media? News?
Media?
How people get their news? Do they even get news? Are they interested in news? Ah? These are all tricky questions.
Aren't they news?
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What's my asking?
Was just going to keep it trying to keep it real?
He doesn't think about and you will be able to hold big check to account because we're so big and techy.
The fact the media outlets use Facebook conc to pump their service and outlets and digital sites doesn't get quite as widely covered. But let's not interrupt the David and Goliath narrative flow to kill the buzz. Should Facebook cut a deal? Probably? Have they elsewhere? Well, that's another one of the problems, sort of but not really. In Canada, it hasn't worked well. The government has ended up handing out money to news organizations after services got turned off. Australia's in the middle of striking another deal which may or may not work, the government under pressure from places like Channel Line and Channel seven who are laying off people by the hundred. It all boils down to the idea, does a social media giant need New Zealand do they care enough to pay this government can pass the law, they can introduce arbitration to their blue in the face the same way social media giants aren't supposed to allow extremists and dangerous material online or lower impressionable teenagers to spend their life scrolling. Have those laws worked? How many American and European investigations and committee questions and answer sessions do you want to see where politicians act tough for the camera. Zuckerberg might stand up and apologize to grieving families, But has it worked? Yes, we have a problem, but do we have a solution, it's probably I think that the probably worth the exercise, but don't be remotely surprised have in the real world it achieves next to nothing.
Man, there's a guy who's been burned one too many times by having his imagine name used to advertise scarlet with products on Facebook.
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Now we're going to stick with social media a little bit longer because David Seymour and some others and have been under scrutiny over the last little while because of their snapchats exchanges with kids at school. This stupid, isn't it.
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The important thing to know is that they all stress that nothing untoward happened. He did not say anything weird, He did not behave badly. He only responded with innocuous things like no, I can't come to your party, but you guys, have a great night and be safe. But now that they are adults, they still feel uncomfortable about it because they don't think that an adult politician should be messaging kids. Now, let's just let's just get this straight. The kids who initiated the contact, who admit that he did nothing wrong, and now complaining because he messaged them back, which is why they messaged him in the first place. They are complaining that he responded to them, and these are kids who are apparently old enough to have been on Snapchat. Now this is nuts. I mean, this is not a story and worse than that, let's be honest about it. It's worse than that because these stories are insinuating that David Seymour is a creep. No one's saying that out loud, but that is the dog whistle that is being sent in a news item about an older man messaging school age kids. Shame on them for that. I know that there was at least one other media outlet who got the same information, looked into it and made the responsible call, which is not to do the story because it is not a story. When media companies wonder why they're losing audience, they might want to think about stories like this because it's very hard to respect outlets and journalists who pedle this kind of a hit job without any evidence of wrongdoing, only insinuating, which the point of it, only serves to insinuate creepiness when there is no evidence. Now short of some evidence emerging to show that in fact, David Seymour is the creep, that they are insinuating that he is. I think he has every right to be really really upset about those stories.
It is very weird and annoyingly. It's made me second guess myself with my own interactions with social media, which are very limited. But you know, we've all got friends who post stuff, and you know, you feel obliged to have the like button their right, So what if you so as happened to me over the weekend a friend of mine her daughter, It was her ball and so they were post photos of her, you know, in her ball dress and you know, with her date and all that sort of stuff. Am I supposed to not like those photos? Is it creepy?
If I like those photos?
Felt weird? It made me feel weird, right, So we've got a very tragic case of possibly somebody falling asleep at the wheel resulting in the death of some other motors. Apparently because she might have fallen asleep, that she's got a lighter sentence than you know, if she was just under the influence or deliberately driving badly. That's caused a bit of a discussion. It's a tricky one, isn't it.
In the instance of falling asleep at the wheel. Should there be a tougher sentence? Should the judge have put Kim Blakeney Williams in jail for three years because she fell asleep?
Yeah, it was understood that that's what happened, So that is the question.
Should the sentence for falling asleep at the wheel be tougher?
Can? I?
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But I've been lobbying for Pacific Crowsey driving legislation for least ten years with the politicians. To someone that picked up as private members built right, and I think it's absolutely necessary to get this in place. I mean, it's absolutely no different from someone basically drinking, but for knowing that they've drunk a lot of alcohol and going out on the road, or smoking a lot of pot going on the road, or for that man of being dog tired.
Alistair says, guys, it was an accident. What did they expect the sentence would be? The family? I feel for them, but what do they expect Convicted pedophiles get home to detention? You get five years for murder? Says Alistair.
This is a really curly one, isn't it. I mean, you shouldn't drive drowsy. I once crashed my car, and I don't know if I fell asleep or what, or if I lost control because of the conditions or what. I can't tell you because I happ my head and I have no memory of the accident, a wed thing in itself. But I have always worried that maybe I did for asleep, because obviously I come to work in the middle of the night and I usually am quite tired, and maybe I shouldn't be driving around. Luckily there were no other people in bold. I just read my own car, But it could have been a lot worse, and it would have been hard to argue if I'd gotten to some serious trouble for that, if I'd hurt somebody else.
These hard questions of the podcast today, aren't.
They news talk? Has it been?
We'll finish with the ultimate hard question, of course, catperson dog person.
Now I've never even done a night show on cat scratching of furniture. But what is interesting the article that says that research reveals why cats scratch furniture. And I really the article, and I couldn't really see a reason they did it because said the link was between increased scratching and children, and was not fully understood. It says the presence of children in the home, as well as higher levels of play and nocturnal activity, significantly contribute to increase scratching. Cats described as aggressive or disruptive also exhibited higher levels of scratching. It seems as though the cats get stressed. A cat's stress level was found to be a leading reason for unwanted scratching. It is understanding the underlying emotional motivations of scratching, such as frustration, which seems to be elect present literates and environmental factors, allows caregivers to address these issues directly. Could be the wrong food. Another factor that may also be connected to the stress was playfulness. Is rest levels could rise if they played for too long due to uninterrupted stimulation. But imagine being a cat out and reading that it makes no sense about what's wrong or what you're supposed to do. Anyway, it does, say providing safe hiding places. It'd be a cardboard box? Would it? Elevated observation spots? Goodness are we taking over? I guess that's ramps and stands like little kiddie cafes and ample plaowerptunities can also help alleviate stress and engage the cat in more constructive activities, she said. Establishing multa I don't know who she is, but we'll just call her she she said. Establishing multiple short play sessions that mimiced successful hunting was likely to keep a caditate for longer instead of clawing the couch. Goodness, never thought about a cat clawing the couch in.
These Yeah, classic exams of how genius cats are. That they can completely turn your life upside down before you even know it, the psychological games that they play. Suddenly you've changed your whole day and the kind of furniture you have in your house because you don't want it scratched by the cats. Brilliant, brilliant, aren't they cats? These they're evil geniuses cats. Yeah. I mean I remember having to sell my red couches, which I love, because the cat put holes in them. The people who bought them just really wanted red couches. They didn't care that they need holes in them. And then we had to get different couches that were sort of a bit more cat through And you might be thinking, why didn't you just get rid of the cat that at the time no cats? Now dog with with dog people. Now the dog doesn't. The dog also damages the furniture. Doesn't mean to though, he just gets bit excited. There's nothing to do about that. Wouldn't spray him with a water bottle. Actually, we haven't sprayed him with a water bottle. That's for backing at the name. I'm getting off subject now, so let's quickly in the podcast before this gets even more out of hand.
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