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Naming nonsense
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the media, Phil Goff managed to bungle the name of his fellow party members and has copped a fair bit of flak in the news. Interesting, you'd think the media never gets a name wrong?
We're all susceptible to mistakes and it doesn't really warrant the lambasting. People in glass houses… and all that.
However, it is worth noting that David Cunliffe isn't too concerned with being confused with Caygill. After all, what's the big deal about the odd 'G” being thrown in your surname? Cunliffe is probably just grateful that Goff didn't throw a 'T” in anywhere.

It's not cricket
The TV Breakfast show, which hasn't been the same since Paul Henry left, is struggling along with Pippa who looks like she's about to burst, and Rawdon Christie. Paul Henry must be puzzled over Rawdon taking his place. With a broad English accent, you'd think TVNZ could've found someone who sounded more like a New Zealander.
Tuesday morning Pippa and Tamati were fessing up to being clueless about cricket rules.
There followed an inane discussion then the sports news, in which it was announced that in a cricket game a player was taken from behind. Both presenters seemed to relate to that.
Meanwhile, the television bosses have decided that it's a bit rude to have the ads louder than the programmes. This is something that has been driving viewers mad for years.
Finally they've done the decent thing and agreed that programmes should be subject to a standard level of volume. How many years of complaining has that taken?

Pike river prose
Finally, there's been some mumbling over the media coverage of the tragedy at Pike River and a poem by Sean Plunket doing the emails rounds.
One of our illustrious readers says the media coverage has been laboured and clichéd, but everyone is too polite to say. So he's penned his own rhyme:

It was sad, it was tortuous,
and desperately tragic
To have seen 29 walk out
would be simply magic
Alas it is clear
that all hopes are dashed
The mine and their lives
with those blasts, smashed

While the families suffer
and a nation does grieve
The burning question now,
will the media please leave?

We will never forget
this tragedy for sure
But there's only so many times
one can endure

Hearing tired old phrases
from sad-eyed reporters
Repeating clichés galore about
wives, sons and daughters

Lord save us from their inept
attempts to convey
The real feelings of those
Missing their men today

Let Greymouth get on
with trying to find
Their loved ones doomed
at Pike River coal mine

And save the rest of us
from the heartaching ramble
Of Wilkinson-Baker,
Sainsbury, and Campbell

Rocky Shaw.