The axe must be hovering by now
Willie and JT won’t have to go far to find out what happens when advertisers bail from your show. All they have to do is ask Paul Henry what happens. The writing must be on the wall now though as...
View ArticleThe carnage continues, Telecom and Vodafone bail too
Two more companies have bailed from advertising on the Radio Live Willie and JT show. NBR reports the ongoing carnage: Vodafone has followed suit and suspended all advertising from RadioLive. Vodafone...
View ArticleReality bites: Is there free speech on commercial radio?
The Willie Jackson / JT storm has left its teacup and everyone is distancing themselves. They are even being thrown under the bus by traditional allies such as David Cunliffe The Prime Minister won’t...
View ArticleJudith Collins on rape culture
Judith Collins writes a short and to the point column at the Herald on Sunday: I’ve never been a big fan of short skirts. With our robust Kiwi figures, they’re best left to super models. So, I’ve been...
View ArticleGuest Post – Rex Widerstrom on the Jackson/Tamihere debacle.
As someone who’s sat in a talkback studio, waiting for the lights to blink to indicate a caller wants to fill a few minutes with something other than my increasingly desperate blathering, I know...
View ArticleTough guys prey on 13yo girls then run like cowards when things get hard
These “Roastbusters” turkey are a bunch of blouses…the brag about raping and stupefying 13 year old girls…then do a runner when things get a bit heated. The Herald on Sunday reports: “Roast Buster”...
View ArticleA reader emails about the attention span of the media
A reader emails me about the state of the media and their attention span of a gnat. I’ve noticed today that yet again the media has managed to get itself off-topic and be distracted by a side show...
View ArticleWillie and JT off air until next year at least
At 12:10 today Radio Live announced via a statement from Willie Jackson and John Tamihere that they will be off air at least until the new year as they speak with management about the implications of...
View ArticleContrasts
Alasdair Thompson said some incorrect things, and rightly lost his job and his career. Paul Henry used the correct name and pronunciation of an Indian woman, leftists howled with outrage, unions...
View ArticleJT to sue Mediaworks, slams the sisterhood
John Tamihere is going to sue Mediaworks over his dumping from Radio Live. NBR reports: Former RadioLive host John Tamihere says he will sue MediaWorks over his departure. Mr Tamihere and co-host...
View ArticleQuestion for our media: why don’t you ignore fabricated ‘race’ attacks?
It must be election time again, when the usual Maori political suspects need to cheaply raise their public profile. How, what has worked in the past? Oh, wait! Let’s call people racists! Iwi are to...
View ArticleShane Jones valedictory
If you think that Labour won’t miss Shane Jones, then watch this speech. Makes you wonder why it was that Labour got UMR to poll about Shane Jones’ legacy. TVNZ reports: One of Parliament’s more...
View ArticleColin Espiner on Kim Dotcom and his marriage of convenience
Colin Espiner is snarky in his article…very snarky indeed. Say what you like about the sacrifice of conscience for cash – a great big German spanner has just been flung into the machinery of this...
View ArticleRodney Hide on the Internet Mana joke
Rodney Hide laughs his moobs off about the Internet Mana Party: I used to think politics was all about achieving good government. That proved invariably disappointing. These days, politics is no longer...
View ArticleWonders will never cease, keyboard interviewer Drinnan actually made a good...
John Drinnan, usually renowned for interviewing his keyboard has actually made a good point in his column yesterday. It has been intriguing to see the reasoned response of opinion-makers to the Kill...
View ArticleDo we really still need the Maori seats?
The Maori seats are becoming a bit of a joke. They have the lowest voter turnout, were supposed to be temporary and now after the last election seemingly irrelevant when 19 Maori were elected in...
View ArticleCrippled by Crazies
Russel Norman has come out swinging. In an interview with Willie Jackson at Radio Waatea he described Dotcom and his pals in the Internet Mana party as “crazies” and they crippled the Greens campaign....
View ArticleSome more thoughts on today’s watershed Charter Schools article from Fairfax
A reader emails about Charter Schools: Simon Day of Fairfax has gone where few have gone before him in NZ and gets some depth into the Charter School situation. He notes the good beginning for Vanguard...
View ArticleAn Embarrassment to the University of Auckland
Drama Professor Peter O’Connor goes even further than his indulgent self interviewing on Charter Schools by getting his comments published in the University of Auckland alumni magazine. (Interesting to...
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