Dear Fair Go editorial team and reporters,
THANK YOU!
Thank you for listening to your loyal viewers and giving the boot (at least tonight) to the story-splitting format. Your investigation and reporting team do a fantastic job with their stories, and the new format was demeaning to their work. Well researched and presented stories deserve to be given our full attention, and I am so happy that the show has returned to the traditional format.
Story-splitting regularly occurs on other TVNZ shows such as Border Patrol and Police Ten 7, and it works for these shows (and doesn't annoy us) because it is selling us the illusion that the intertwined stories are happening in real time and simultaneously. Issues tackled by Fair Go aren't happening all at the same time and it is disruptive to have the "meanwhile on the other side of town" style of cutting between stories.
Thank you once again for considering the thoughts of your viewers and being bold enough to revert to the past format. Your loyal viewers (and their brains) thank you!
Yours sincerely,
Ahmad Smile
