She fended off questions she couldn't answer with a kind of voodoo debating style that made everyone forget what the question was in the first place. Half the room got hung up on the idea that the new TVNZ charter will oblige TVNZ to pack its prime time with community service programmes in Hindi, which it won't. There is no mention of a need to innovate, or the duty to advance the culture. Where a public broadcaster makes a genuine impact on public good is where it makes its private counterparts compete on quality and fresh ideas. One of the great successes of the BBC is that it advances the art.
Commercial TV tends to get one idea and clone it till the next thing arrives.
She predicted national economic collapse if media planners actually had to do some work. I propose that we all agree to help the unfortunate people who work in advertising by agreeing to present ourselves at a given time and place to be advertised to. On Air's contestable funding model is retained. On Air - usually the power rests with broadcasters and, if we're lucky, producers, rather than creative people. It was nice to be involved this time round.