Like the caregiver of anything fledgling – I protect it with both fairness and ferocity.

Sarah, I've spent far too many years, overworked and underpaid, supporting bFM, Radio Active, George FM (which as Thane will tell you, I helped start, managed, PD'd etc for years) for my own good. The…

It was not my intent to participate in 'TVNZ bashing' – and I do realise it's a hobby of some which must become tiresome to your ears...
As for Oliver – I think he has an immense passion for story and media, and I…

naked news is going to prove some great ironic point about how all we do are stories about lost dogs etc.

At least when Angela D'Audney (remember her?) got her tits out, it wasn't while reading the news, but during a rather creditable turn in a frothy bedroom farce.

And…

Thanks for your comments. As you know, Alt has been going for a while now, and until last week I've never said a bad word against it. In fact, when I was a reporter at Close Up, I even did a story about Alt's search for a new presenter.…

They decided not to continue due to the cost of the frequency.... so now its Sky Digital channel 65 or streaming over the web...

Thanks fletcher. I bet that cost them a LOT of viewers. seems like a really strange decision in that the drop of numbers would result in…

They decided not to continue due to the cost of the frequency.... so now its Sky Digital channel 65 or streaming over the web...

i really enjoyed watching ALT when it was being broadcast.....there were some real gems of shows on it, how does one watch it now? the website alttv.co.nz strangely doesnt seem to have any mention of where/how to watch.....

I held my tongue when you bollocked the quality of our broadcast in your last blog – but receiving an email with:

"P.S. Do something about the audio in those interviews. Seriously. It can't be that hard."

...as a post script – it made both myself, and our Head…

Driver is the new Paxman

How is that a good thing, because on a bad day the Old Paxman is Bad Sean Plunkett with Pictures. I guess its a whole new argument, but is the cult of the celebrity journo really a good thing?

You're criticising one politician for not playing the political game as expected but then you criticise another politician for playing the political game as expected

Yes, I'm just a sorry mess of contradictions, me. :)

Umm... wasn't the entire point of my post (well, it was from my POV anyway)…

... so Phil Goff should've known full well how his comments would be interpreted by the ravenous pack of the Press Gallery.

You're criticising one politician for not playing the political game as expected (and other mediatypes have used this to…

If National gets in at this election, I will be very, very sad.

Just don't threaten to leave the country, otherwise I'll be around to drive you to the airport. Seriously, anyone who threatens to emigrate if an election doesn't come out to their liking... Well, don't let me keep…

As for HC post-politics, she might just choose to retire to the feminist lesbian wicca orgy that Wishart fantasises about when he jacks off every night.

You just made me think a bad thing about possum fat. Eeew.

Oh, my poor brain.

There's a nice coven in the Wairarapa. I…

You wouldn’t get that from Mugabe

I think Mugabe would have the entire staff of Air NZ impaled on stakes if he had to suffer the "revamp" that's going on in the Wellington Koru lounge at the moment.

But then, he wouldn't be able to fly anywhere. Come to think…

As for HC post-politics, she might just choose to retire to the feminist lesbian wicca orgy that Wishart fantasises about when he jacks off every night.

You just made me think a bad thing about possum fat. Eeew.

I probably wouldn't love our media either, if I was in her position...

Ray Miller used to have Helen speak to his Intro to NZ politics class, I don't know if he still does. When I saw her in 1996 (prior to the election that year) she gave a brilliant…

Anyway, prediction: if Labour loses, she'll not only vacate the leadership an an orderly fashion, but also step down as MP for Mt Albert, and Phil Twyford will win the subsequent by-election.

I wonder what she'll do 'afterwards'. She hasn't ever struck me as wanting to be an international figure,…

...so tow-the-line...

...hamstrung, blinkered and line-towing...

Bloody hell, Christie. It's toe the line.

Think soldiers lining up in a straight line, obeying orders, not, uh, a tow-truck driver...

(And I won't get into the TV political reporter who mentioned politicians "towing the party line". WTF?!)

I probably wouldn't love our media either, if I was in her position...

I definitely wouldn't love the media if I was in the position of any politician. How many times can you be within arms length of Paul Henry first thing in the morning without handing down some GBH?…

Some politicians are charismatic and media-savvy; some have it thrust upon them; and others just fake it until they make it. I'd put Clark in the third group, and don't mean it as a snide back-hander.

I don't know. Part of me realises that Helen Clark wouldn't talk to bFM…

Some politicians are charismatic and media-savvy; some have it thrust upon them; and others just fake it until they make it. I'd put Clark in the third group, and don't mean it as a snide back-hander.

I'd qualify that. She needed no encouragement to pitch in to a frank and…

If, as the polls presently indicate, Helen Clark won't be Prime Minister by the end of the year, I'm looking forward to her post-Prime Ministerial (or even post-political) interviews.

Is Finlay McDonald still a commissioning editor for Penguin NZ? Politician's memoirs are usually tedious, self-justifying tripe but the entertaining ones…

You wouldn’t get that from Mugabe.

Lol.

If, as the polls presently indicate, Helen Clark won't be Prime Minister by the end of the year, I'm looking forward to her post-Prime Ministerial (or even post-political) interviews.

As you point out Damian, she has put up walls and followed strategies to…