New Zealand: Newspapers
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rscEach place that we stayed, there was one daily broadsheet newspaper available (I think there might have been some tabloids that we never actually had opportunity to obtain, even if we had wished to): the Press on the South Island, the Dominion Post in Wellington, and the New Zealand Herald elsewhere on the North Island. Apart from a few articles indicating a local focus (Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland respectively), they all appeared to be written by the same people, or at least the styles were awfully similar -- rather breezy (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jwg kept being amused by local colloquialisms), with a kind of libertarian/progressive slant (I know that may sound like a contradiction, but I don't pretend that I really got enough of the sense of the national politics to be able to sum it up any better). One of the hot issues of the moment was a bill that seemed to be about to pass the legislature that would forbid parents to hit their children, generally referred to as "the anti-smacking bill", which seemed to inflame a lot of passions on both sides (from what I could glean it looked ill-considered and unenforceable, but that wouldn't be anything new in any jurisdiction I'm familiar with).
When I say "broadsheet", I really mean it. Crude measurement using a standard US letter-size sheet indicated that the page width of these newspapers is about 17 inches. That made turning the pages, and folding them back once turned so that there was a chance of actually fitting the section onto the breakfast table, something of a challenge. (The page width of the Boston Globe is 12½ inches.)
jwg kept being amused by local colloquialisms), with a kind of libertarian/progressive slant (I know that may sound like a contradiction, but I don't pretend that I really got enough of the sense of the national politics to be able to sum it up any better). One of the hot issues of the moment was a bill that seemed to be about to pass the legislature that would forbid parents to hit their children, generally referred to as "the anti-smacking bill", which seemed to inflame a lot of passions on both sides (from what I could glean it looked ill-considered and unenforceable, but that wouldn't be anything new in any jurisdiction I'm familiar with).When I say "broadsheet", I really mean it. Crude measurement using a standard US letter-size sheet indicated that the page width of these newspapers is about 17 inches. That made turning the pages, and folding them back once turned so that there was a chance of actually fitting the section onto the breakfast table, something of a challenge. (The page width of the Boston Globe is 12½ inches.)
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Date: 2007-03-26 03:35 pm (UTC)I don't remember if the Dominion Post had anything and the New Zealand Herald had 1 strip about cynical business people that appeared in the business section.
Sports sometimes included standings or scores about American Hockey or Basketball but of course were mostly about Cricket, Rugby, Soccer, and Horse Racing. I wonder what kind of coverage they have about baseball - I don't think there are any NZ players in US baseball. There is NZ softball and the Canterbury RedSox were doing pretty well in a national tournament.