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It's been an interesting week in the news, our region hosting two remarkably successful spectator events – jetsprint racing and the Classic airshow.

Superbly organised and with great venues, it's also a thrill to see how promotion with Sun Media works so well for shows, events... and all businesses really.

The success continued; Lorde With An E On The End won, the NZ cricketers won, beating the world champions in the one-dayers. There was a series of high profile domestic successes at home, too. We got new batteries in the TV remote and changed the blown lightbulb in the bathroom. So a great week all round.

Shame though, that Lorde With An E isn't coping well with the attention that comes with fame. She tweeted about the media scrum on arrival back in NZ, complaining she was under a constant, often 'lecherous gaze” and said she no longer felt safe in her tiny home country. Hello? What did you expect?

It's not as if the media turned up in their pervy X-Ray glasses or with mirrors on their shoes. (Although, both of these items can be bought online from the RR Lecherous Reporters' Equipment catalogue).

Get in the real world, girl. This sort of ruckus comes with the package. You want celebrity, you get intense public scrutiny. Don't ever think your quiet life in ‘little old NZ' will ever be the same again.

You want to be a big time star in the big adult world and use the F bomb word? Seems more like a young naive schoolgirl has been thrust into a dog-eat-dog adult celebrity world, arrived home tired and jetlagged, with no coaching on media or public relations and let rip with this new-fangled, and dangerous, social media thing.

Recipe for disaster.
Sad but true fact: Lechers all over the world will be gazing at you forever more. We can't stop Len Brown watching TV.

Snooping spies

Whistleblower Edward Snowden reckons spies are using phone apps to snoop on us, track our moves and glean a heap of personal information. Games such as Angry Birds, mapping and social networking, supposedly expose us to spies, who desperately want to know our daily routines. Poor buggers, must be bored out of their minds.

Menace to society

Americans are revolting. Thousands of them have just realised what the rest of us have known from the start: Justin Bieber is a menace. Now there's a petition to have him thrown out of the USA, back to his native Canada. More than 100,000 (as we went to press) have signed online to have Bieber despatched. They want the White House to deport him.

Part of the petition reads: 'We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug-abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We, the people, would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society”.
Here at RR we'd be happy just to give him a haircut.

Henry returns

Champion of political incorrectness Paul Henry finally made a return to our televisions. The show is a bit late for many of us, but the RR team has resorted to taping it and watching the next morning.

It's certainly better regurgitated in the morning, than having to watch the inane Breakfast show, which has never been the same since he left.

So far Paul's new show has been a bit lame and critics are questioning the choice of sidekick for Henry. She's an ineffectual little giggler incapable of perpetuating the witty banter for which Henry is infamous.

He's one of those you either love or hate, and my advice to anyone in with the latter viewpoint – don't watch it. It works for me, with Campbell.

Speaking of irritating TV people, Seven Sharp is a lot sharper with Mike Hosking on board. He's another of the love/hate brigade, but we have to admit the show is a lot more focussed with his input. It will be interesting to see any ratings fluctuations as a result of Hosking's influence. It may not be the silver bullet needed to knock Campbell the crowing cock off his dung pile, but at least TV One has done something. Lord knows, they needed to.

If we have to hear one more time about the ditzy blonde's 'bubba” we are going to collectively scream.

Parting shot

Updated jingle for crossing the Cook Strait: 'Cruisin' on the Interislander, hope you make it to the other side”.