I've just arrived back from two weeks in New Zealand and I have plenty of new material to puzzle through. More to come, but for now I'll start with a soft target: Wellington's newspaper. In Wellington there is just one daily, The Dominion Post. The Dominion Post averages around 40 pages per day. Extensive advertising content is interspersed with relatively inobtrusive local news, world news, sports, features, crosswords and TV listings. I skim-read it happily in the time it takes to eat a bowl of my Mum's fabulous porridge.
The Dominion Post is an uncomfortable contraction in both name and content of two long-established Wellington newspapers: The Dominion (1907-2002) and The Evening Post (1865-2002). Worse, its domain name, http://www.dompost.co.nz/ is a single unfortunate letter away from http://www.compost.co.nz/.
I always suspect myself of singling out home town product for disproportionate criticism, tall poppy syndrome if you like, but the amount of advertising is unfortunate. Grumpy, and itching to jump onto Google News instead, I decided to have a go at the five minute quiz. I got as far as question number 5: "Who is Australasia's biggest travel agency?". Aargh.
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Easy - the British Embassy.