Under the bold heading “RECOMMENDED FOR YOU” the Herald web-site led with,

“Hitman kills Australian grandmother when she answers the door”.

Reading Stuff’s principal newspaper, Wellington’s The Post, I now treat as a daily entertainment for its blunders.

Half a century back newspapers were everyone’s principal news source. But in the face of the new digital option with its immediacy, they’ve gone over like ninepins and the handful surviving, knowing the game is up, are all actively trying to build a pay-per-view digital option.

In today’s Post newspaper correspondence Michael Barnett, has come up with a brilliant idea re funding the City Council. Specifically, he suggests imposing taxes on city commercial sites.

The above report on the new Wellington waterfront Children’s playground was as reported in The NZ Herald and Wellington’s The Post.