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While in Christchurch a tired and overworked Kochie tweeted, "time to sleep like the dead”.

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David Koch has made another Twitter fumble, his second in just as many weeks.

Working in Christchurch yesterday he tweeted, “Up since 3.20am yesterday… time to sleep like the dead”.

A Channel Seven spokeswoman, “Kochie is sincerely sorry and deleted the message as soon as he realised what he had said,” she said.

“He had been working for more than 36 hours straight and made a mistake. He is deeply sorry for any offence he may have caused.”

The tweet was removed.

Two weeks ago he was slammed by Twitter users for tweeting, “Historic day in Egypt as Facebook generation ousts Mubarak. He even acknowledged the voice of Youth in his decision. Peaceful overthrow.”

Time to give it a rest, Kochie.

Source: news.com.au

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  3. So what, give him a break. Obviuosly a not so great choice of words but he has seen so much death and destruction he is allowed a slip up. Does anyone stop and think what effect these types of disasters have on media crew and talent? It must not be easy.

  5. @steveany, couldn’t agree more. I was actually just thinking this morning, listening to ABC Radio covering the earthquake, that we’re all just so used to being drenched in visual images these days that it’s almost a relief just to hear non-sensationalised, intelligent radio reporting. I too find it pretty distasteful that the breakfast shows fly their hosts to the scene of disasters. It feeds into the belief that the public need to see and hear every last ounce of pain and suffering that’s being experienced.

    @steven guy, I agree that people are watched very closely these days, but that’s the precise reason I don’t send information about my every thought, breath and movement into the Twitterverse for all to read. You put it out there, you put yourself up for scrutiny.

  6. @Ararat It wasn’t insensitive, just dumb. Mubarak had just made an extraordinarily speech where he had basically ignored his own peoples demands. He totally ignored the movement against him. Kochie interpreted it, somehow, as him deciding to give into the people. Obviously wasn’t listening properly.

  7. Are the media being ghoulish or are they just trying to bring us the news as it happens because they are able to do so with todays technology ?
    We bag them when they do cover things live and then we bag them when they don’t cover things live !

    Are we, the public being ghoulish watching it unfold live ?
    Who doesn’t like a good car crash at the races and we can just turn off the idiot box if we choose !

    The new media and the new viewer are a strange pair of beasts !

  8. Spot on, Steveany. The parasites of disaster are swarming about again. The highlight is always Leila McK gloating with hyperbole how heartbroken she is about the impact on the people. Why is ACA on the ground? What angle can they provide, apart from Tracey’s appalling wardrobe? We have Brady Halls jumping into cracks. Koch and co add nothing in terms of knowledge, but plenty in terms of ignorance and hurt.

    New Zealand TV channels and news online are providing a professional, heartfelt, and compassionate coverage. We need to learn a lot from them.

  9. Hopefully twitter will only become used for good like we see during these disasters sending meaningful pieces of information instead of inane chit chat and posturings of people’s every waking moment. Do we really need to know when anyone is going to sleep? Clearly I don’t use or get the ‘twitterverse’ but does anyone care whether Kochie, the Pope, Elvis, anyone!, is going to bed?

  10. @steveany, great post. Thanks for articulating what a lot of us feel. It is totally unnecessary to fly entire breakfast show crews to the disaster spot of the day. As a rule, those fronting breakfast shows are not seasoned news reporters, merely glorified ambulance chasers/talking heads. I understand it is done to give viewers a sense of immediacy and being there on the spot, but it is also cynical and exploitative, given the years long ratings war between Today and Sunrise. I understand sending a news crew, but I really do not get the whole breakfast team on the spot nonsense.

  13. First of all he shouldn’t be there and he and Karl and grant are more of than a hinderence than anything. Like they were with the floods and cyclone yasi. Kochie is really an idiot. Another person that shouldn’t be on tv

  14. Absolutely disgusting. And this is why “celebs” shouldn’t use twitter, we see how big an idiot they really are. And don’t go blaming lack of sleep. Kochie and the Sunrise team shouldn’t even be there. I’ll stay with ABC News Breakfast from now on

  16. One ‘fopar’ and the internet police are all over you. I’m sure every one of those people have never said anything offensive, or had a really good reason if they did, supposedly. Can’t stand Kochie, but this is not a story, the earthquake is.

  17. Why oh why must 7 & 9 insist on flying their morning crews of nitwits to every disaster on the Pacific Rim? Isn’t a disaster sad enough without having to put up with pinheads like Kochie pestering rescue workers and passers-by with inane questions?
    Why does Karl Stefanovic have to be there using up precious resources to ask questions that any other fool with a microphone could ask?
    The NZ TV people were doing a great job with their on-the-spot reporting before the Australian network comedians showed up.

    Obviously it’s a completely unsubtle effort to use the disasters to raise the profile of network ‘stars’, which is utterly exploitative and reprehensible.
    Shame on you all, you ambulance -chasing users.

  21. Grossly insensitive tweet, given the tragic circumstances in Christchurch. It was obviously unintentional, but people should never use Twitter if they are over-tired and emotional.

  22. Come on, cut the guy some slack.
    It’s probably an expression he has used all his life.

    Everything is so friggin closely watched these days. Soon we will all be behaving like robots, no room for freedom of expression as we choose which words to use, re read them, have them checked by the PC team then use them.

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