Where Do We Find Informed Public Debate?

Where Do We Find Informed Public Debate?

There are scores of voices that bellow at us in the public square. Loudest are overstated advertising messages persuading us that "I spend therefore I am". Close behind is the menacing purr from political and corporate spin-doctors. With the slow strangulation of discourse in the media and its replacement by ugly argument, sensationalist television, and personality newspaper commentators, we are truly under-informed.

The guest this week In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Triangle Television is the director of an organisation that promotes public discussion of public issues with no agenda other than to do the decent thing by those issues. Dr Andrew Bradstock is Howard Paterson Professor of Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago.

Triangle Television, Wednesday 17th of October at 7:00pm and repeated Thursday 18th of October at 12 noon.

Triangle Television, the home of original public broadcasting, can be received in the Auckland region on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52.

Triangle Television is also transmitted live on streaming TV – an emerging technology – which can be received (as a live feed) on broadband-connected computers and on Internet-connected television sets throughout New Zealand. Point your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, ...) to www.ecasttv.co.nz

In Conversation with Noel Cheer receives funding from New Zealand on Air. This has enabled Triangle Television to introduce viewers to over 240 New Zealanders on Air during nearly 6 years of unbroken weekly broadcasting.

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