At least one person found it more compelling.

Can't say I've shed a tear listening to a @radionz interview until now.

It's a different skill. You're projecting, rather than being on mic.

It's actually quite hard to modulate your voice for radio without headphones. She'd want to have a line from the producer…

Is there any functional need for the giant headphones (eg. which Katrina Batten wears when reading the news), or is that more just to make it look like radio?

https://youtu.be/lAl28d6tbko

With the clever tagline "Radio With Pictures".

In September 2014 Campbell Live ratings had shot up from an average of 199,000 to a respectable 241,000. When the CL "review" was announced,…

It’s an awkward watch, they’re sitting so close together that if one were to yawn (which would be understandable) the other might need to visit the chiropractor. Not being able to see the sides…

In the 25-54-year-old group... TV3's performance in…

This results from a complaint by Labour's Paul McMahon after his request…

Or, is any attention better than none?

You mean Rachel Smalley,
who called NZ women heifers and a bunch of Lardos?

+1

As a NatRadio listener I…

the antidote to paul henry on morning telly

You're partly right Sacha. It was bought by Warner Bros last year.

This….http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/about-parliament/see-hear/ptv

…ticks ALL the boxes for the 5,30 warm ’em up for the Hilary and Mike Show slot.

anyone have Warners contact details….?

I thought it was a Dutch company?

I'm guessing it's not the Warner brothers (Chris and Guy) from Shortland Street (where I recently accidentally caught Winston Peters' daughter killing a patient,…

Soap with...."with appealing, accessible characters and a rich, dramatic narrative".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11482186

Yeah, nah.

This recent discussion's caused me to think back to secondary school in the mid-90s, which for better or worse was a Wellington public school which some parents buy…

I am still queasy about the tone of her apology, though, just as yet another symptom of all…

I didn't know of it but the Ashburton case was being repeated everywhere. I don't expect the gossip columnists would do research at all.'ll do some catch up.
SHIT!…

Izogi:

Pointing and shouting at any kids who die and screaming…

This is an adult woman in her mid-20s.

At some point the angry lynch mob calls for individuals to take responsibility need to go both ways. Pointing and shouting at any kids who die and screaming "obvious neglect from…

This is an adult woman in her mid-20s. When Ashburton mayor Angus McKay says "It shows the intelligence of the person who made the comment" he…

I think it’s good she apologised quickly and I hope she learnt from it but really isn’t her witterings just synonomous with reality trash TV?

I also hope she’s learned something. But I still have trouble reading her attempted apology…

Or may have abused the priviledge of a credit card that parents pay for. Look, Pebbles comes from parents in the Fashion Industry. Considered to be up there worth acknowledging. I imagine,( like…

I think any 25 year old with a job or student loan can go along to a bank and ask for one. You don't need parental permission or anything...

"isn’t allowed a credit card" == "isn't allowed a credit card with someone else paying the…

Alfie:
Of course you didn’t Pebbles. Quite obviously it was aimed at the numerous other families killed by CO from car exhausts in recent memory.

Uhuh. Maybe it’s youthful idiocy from a 25 year old who __"grew up…

Or "target audience" in Herald and TV3 parlance.

I never aimed to target or isolate this issue to one family.
Of course you didn't Pebbles. Quite…

Maybe this explains it?

Wasn't the Greaseball running a crusade a while back against people with stupid names?

It's also made TV1. TV3 hasn't yet covered it, only the Ashburton deaths.

But every other day, that's exactly what the Herald decides. So I don't think their decision here is based on a new commitment to higher…

They *promoted* the editor who sanctioned Glucina. What's a little eugenics between pals?

It beggars belief that this person is paid by the Herald to write anything. If that organisation has any kind of ethical standards, this should be instant dismissal.

The Herald certainly knows how to pick em.

Yep, Pravda is an independent publication.

I think it's pretty clear that would be the decent thing to do now.

Samantha Hayes used to tell us she liked to watch John Campbell. And Campbell used to plug Jono and Ben.

But JC has not only left the building, he's been airbrushed out of…

The Herald mentions those ratings today as well as a disturbing rumour.…

I don't have a link but it was something like, "The PM said today that he expected (woman's name) to win." It was me who pointed out the ponytail length blonde hair which, in the context of recent events, seemed…

How embarrassing – he is obviously following it.

OMG.

You might have thought that the guilty party admitting the offense to almost all of the world's media would count for something. Maybe the judge doesn't manage…

News? Nah! Julie Christie blatantly cross-promoting shows at…

And even I would understand it makes sense for Natrad to read out those 'negative' emails to avoid being accused of bias.

The interview stands on it's own.

Give…

It's not something that some wouldn't simply write off as a media beat-up, though.

But Key also knows something else: we judge character by looking and by listening to tone of voice, far more than by digesting what is said. Once we have judged, we are not likely to…

So Key is clear: No, he does not accept he misused his power by repeatedly tugging on a woman's hair over a period of months. In fact, his hair-pulling is "a bit of fun" and an attempt…

Y'mean 'I'm prepared to go to court should anyone get near my kids and even photograph them " Hoskings? This apologist talking head should have his hair pulled out,…

Hair today, gone tomorrow?.

“leave the poor girl alone“ she said. "What else are the poor for?" he asked "I find them quite amusing"
Smug Cnut.
As…

__As he approached me he thought it would be fitting to raise his hands…

’Course, when a ponytail is raised,
one can only…

Yeah well, these things tend to take on an "animal husbandry" tone once they filter out to the provinces.
Settle down, Cletus.

I guess cafe staff can spit in your coffee. such power ..

No, there's no boycott so far as I can see.

It's simply people writing to Hosking's boss and sponsor to make clear their feelings about his vile piece on Amanda Bailey.

Elle Hunt is an NZ journo, fortunately.

John Key fucked it up. Look at Bradley Ambrose and his treatment once John key became involved.Look at the similarity with Bevan Chaung's treatment also from the same crowd around National. Key displays narcissistic tendencies . His brain…

It is very unpleasant when the citizen is scared of the fourth estate.
Amanda has been stripped off her basic civil rights by the same journo who had an obsessive hate…

I've seen a couple of comments on Facebook and Twitter from people who say they have, but I coan't remember who, sorry.

There’s an attempt to muddy the waters…

I wish i was the prime minister.”

This is a feminist issue and the national party pakeha are an embarrassing slite for white people. Jesus, this is…

Nailed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJCqnInb1MM

For this 'Alice-band through the looking glass' world

and isn't that insane?

My take is dirty Trichophilia may yet do what Dirty Politics couldn't...

I'm assuming/hoping (since it's Stuff) that that is the same one referred to earlier by Bruce Ward as being in an offline Nelson paper?

Also, different enough to not be noticed as creepy at…

She's lucky she doesn't have a ponytail.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11437343

Prime Minister John Key allegedly pulled the pony-tails of two school girls while on a visit to the national museum.

Mark Blackham of BlacklandPR said his 12-year-old daughter watched last night's television news and…

He edited his claim out of a later version.

Here's the Stuff report (with a touch of Schadenfreude?):

__The Herald issued three versions of its statement on the issue.

The first said Glucina had…

I smell lawyers, which is pretty much the same thing.

When the power imbalance is so marked, it's well beyond the fetish stakes and heading for Saville territory.

This is a pattern of behaviour that feels like "predator" to me.

Another good reason to move.

I don't think government ministers ever go in Cuba St cafes, but if they did, then the slightest bit of barista or solicita fondling…

Yeah this part really pisses me off. It isn't entirely clear that the owners of The Hip Group weren't lied to as well but the most parsimonious conclusion is that they hung…

It's a big stretch to accept that the employers didn't know what they were doing when they involved Rachel G. They either hung their employee out for the wolves or they are so naive that it is incredible they…

Treatment is generally not sought unless the condition becomes problematic for the person in some way, or they come under scrutiny of the legal system, and become compelled to address their condition. Many…

Not clear yet what role they have played in this latest development, but their venue managers need to protect staff in their care better.

Hmmm who should I believe?

Such a hard decision ...

9. Subterfuge
Information or news obtained by subterfuge, misrepresentation or dishonest means is not…

Glucina tweeted this morning saying the claims were "utterly not true" and that she would be "responding in due course".

Herald Editor Shayne Currie told TVNZ that "none of what is stated is accurate".

Unless he has listened to interview…

This is just disgusting. It appears as though The Herald, through Glucina and Currie have decided to give up any pretense of having moral standards.

Surely there are some restrictions on whether journalists…

Damn right!

This.

The waitress says she was deceived into sitting down with her employers and talking to Rachel Glucina on the pretence that Glucina was to help them prepare a press statement making it clear her beef wasn't with the company.

She says the…

But let's not join some media outlets in minimising this. Sure he's weird but that's a distraction.

Please read the woman's full account of months of sustained bullying. Who would think that was OK?

Galavant was quite fun at times…

Dirty Trichophillias…
at 5.30 it’s looking like Key’s cafe horsing around is turning into a ’tuggernaut’©

Thanks to the interwebs, even the follicly challenged can tug a virtual forelock.

Is there a known cure? I remember a video made to demonstrate a form of therapy for anti-social compulsive behavior in children. The subject was a young girl who, among other things, was a chronic hair puller.

The first scene showed her…

link (6 mins, most relevant parts from a couple of minutes in)

Most ‘normal people’- I use that term pretty loosely – would recoil in horror at the prospect of there being a handful of people who considered them to be liars.

It takes a special type of monster to cynically gamble on the probability that no more than 50% of people…

Not long ago, when Hooten was desperately trying to distance himself…