OT a bit but this has got to be the laziest journalism I have read today.Taken straight from Labour Party Blog. 8 paragraphs lifted (although aknowledged) then that's it. Herald story.

Indeed — but you've got to savour the multiple levels of irony given the source (Trevor Mallard) and the…

OT a bit but this has got to be the laziest journalism I have read today.Taken straight from Labour Party Blog. 8 paragraphs lifted (although aknowledged) then that's it. Herald story.

Indeed — but you've got to savour the multiple levels of irony given the source (Trevor Mallard) and the…

I fail to see how the frontiers of human knowledge were expanded by Jeremy Paxman infamous baiting of Michael Howard by asking the same question twelve times in succession

That's exactly how I saw it brother, you are not there to torture your guest, you reason with them.

If the great and good discover that they can avoid answering any question by simply ignoring it, we're poorly served.

And while it was vastly entertaining, I fail to see how the frontiers of human knowledge were expanded by Jeremy Paxman infamous baiting of Michael Howard by asking the same…

But Morning Report sounds weird, sounds snotty.

" a one word answer, are you going to win the christchurch mayoralty?"

That was a question…

A few politicians will be breathing a sigh…

Jooooooooooooooin usssssssssss

Oh, ok then, I'll watch tonight's game.

I'm a fan. She generally asks the right questions, and sometimes it is necessary for an interviewer to repeatedly ask a question that's not being answered.

Sure — but let's be honest, when does repeating the same question over and over stop being about journalism and become all about hyping…

Sounds like a bloody awful job to me.

Forget Morning Report, just tell the politicians to log in at the pa system, we'll ask good questions and be nice (ish).

To me I confess the early stage is always the most exciting part. Everyone's in it, you get to discover new players and often to watch the best football.

South Korea played the most interesting football I've seen in this tournament so far. Precise, lightfooted, and assured.

And yes you are correct Sacha; a month of football or even rugby is way too much…

I like her too. And I can't think of anyone else.
But if she's that grumpy at 5pm, at 6am she'll be strangling puppies and electrocuting bunnies between questions :)

ROFL

Whilst I take Russell's point that she's good a repeatedly asking the question, sometimes they have already answered the…

But if she's that grumpy at 5pm, at 6am she'll be strangling puppies and electrocuting bunnies between questions :)

As long as some of the more difficult interviewees know this before they take the air, I don't see what the problem is (except for the puppies and bunnies obviously).

Yes, Wilson would be the perfect replacement for Plunket were it not for the fact that she's needed where she is.

I like her too. And I can't think of anyone else.
But if she's that grumpy at 5pm, at 6am she'll be strangling puppies and electrocuting bunnies between questions…

(Though I'm sure Checkpoint's Mary Wilson is going to continue the fine tradition of playing merry hell with my blood pressure with leading questions, editorialising and feral cluelessness where she doesn't get that barking the same question half-a-dozen times isn't going to elicit the desired response.)

I'm a fan. She…

Might be good to have a stroppy woman there for a change.

Kim Hill or Kath Ryan are the most obvious candidates.
Linda Clark is now with a law firm. Maggie Barry's about as hardline as Geoff Robinson.

Oh, will this end-of-semester essay marking ever end...!!!

Or to take a meme common here "clean cut pollies who are being smeared" but have trouble remembering their own credit cards when they leave home

I…

Oh, really! Who is he off to bully and badger now?

Well, Geoff, I've often said there's two Plunkets. The 'Too Much Coffee Too Early In The Morning' One who does "bully and badger" until I want to stick a pencil in my ears to make the pain stop. (Though…

There are times when I want to strangle him for his sheer utter quasi-marxoid fundamentalism and sectarianism. When you think about it, who better than to have as a 'left' commentator in a business periodical? Damn, I miss Bruce Jesson...

Am I not the only one to be reminded of…

Sean Plunkett's just resigned from RNZ.

Oh, really! Who is he off to bully and badger now?

There is that R. Brown fellow who could do great things on Morning Report.

There are times when I want to strangle him…

Chris Trotter, whose politics were rather different to those of the editors, was a longtime columnist.

And who couldn't love Trotter's terse reply to being asked why he was sleeping with the enemy: "They pay well, and I'm allowed to write what I want." Still, having flicked through his Indie…

In the end its death was its depence on the scarce ad dollar.

But surely, look after depence, ad dollars look after themselves?

Berryman sounds like a fascinating guy.

The verb form of injunction is enjoin.
[a point I made way back here :-) ]