Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Blinded by the white https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355906#post355906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355906#post355906 To be really crude about it I’d guess is there isn’t any money in having a Maori columnist.

ALL our media is commercial. They make money by selling ads and they crudely assess the importance of any given market based on who has money. Since we’ve made damn sure Maori…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:47:31 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355896#post355896 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355896#post355896 Whoa Joe. I’m really not keen on personal attacks, especially after last week’s stows. James is due a right of reply.

All I can offer in my own defense is a certain fatigue, brought about by the deficit in local democracy, of taking things on trust. I'm sorry Russell, I…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:54:19 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355889#post355889 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355889#post355889 Good old whakapapa. Something you’re happy to invoke when it suits, yet how utterly wicked of me to entertain, even for a moment, that your self-made spot on the gravy train might have anything to do with your being the son of a unreconstructed Rogernome.

Whoa Joe. I’m really not…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:03:49 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355887#post355887 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355887#post355887 death of the elephant who accidentally killed her keeper. Fortunately more civilised heads prevailed, and she's… ]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:00:15 +1300 James Caygill https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355877#post355877 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355877#post355877 And I'm not running from my whakapapa, just noting that I'm not my father.

I'm not one for personal attacks, and I expect better here at PAS.

In your original post you were linking Tahu's lack of publishing with my employment at Te Rūnanga ( at least I think that's…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:33:43 +1300 James Caygill https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355876#post355876 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355876#post355876 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:29:17 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355875#post355875 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355875#post355875 For your records Joe, I'm not a Rogernome, I prefer to be identified with things I've actually done so if you want to attack me blame me for the fifth labour government, not the fourth...I'm Pakeha, my partner is Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou.
Good old whakapapa. Something you're happy…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:17:44 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355871#post355871 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355871#post355871 Tremain ... another cartoon in a similar vein ]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:05:21 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355869#post355869 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355869#post355869 I've never worked for Ngai Tahu Property, or any of the iwi's commercial subsidiaries. I was for three years the General Manager of Tribal Interests for the Office of Te Rūnanga. One of the teams in my group managed the tribal properties returned to the iwi as part of the… ]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:01:38 +1300 James Caygill https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355866#post355866 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355866#post355866 Hey thanks for the love Joe, keeping it classy I see.

If I were to speculate I'd suggest Tahu's stopped writing due to his health.

For your records Joe, I'm not a Rogernome, I prefer to be identified with things I've actually done so if you want to attack me…

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:40:18 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355812#post355812 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355812#post355812 When I sought Don Selwyn's endorsement of Te Rerenga Wairua, an animated film based on the spirits' journey in the afterlife, he reacted like an Old Testament prophet with dire warnings of supernatural consequences.

Sorry, that should read "When I sought Selwyn Muru's endorsement". At the time I most definitely…

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:46:35 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355809#post355809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355809#post355809 err...

Alan Duff prophesies.

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:00:39 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355806#post355806 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355806#post355806 Hallelujah, at the 11th and three quarter hour (and a bit) a champion has arisen to take up the gauntlet of main stream media columnist for iwi…
The trouble this time is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPPA. People oppose it for the same reason people used to have mullets…

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:14:07 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355805#post355805 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355805#post355805 Selwyn was a firecracker.

Selwyn took a bit of a shine to me in the 90s when I had to interview him for a story once. He had a lot to say, than man. He's still with us, of course, but suffering from dementia.

When I sought Don Selwyn's endorsement…

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:09:46 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355804#post355804 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355804#post355804 She did for a while. in her post Bone People flush of media friendliness. It was in one of the then Sunday papers, when she also wrote occasional Listener reviews.
I'd be real surprised if the powers-that-be at The Press these days realise she's a product of North Beach.

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:41:44 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355803#post355803 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355803#post355803 For instance why on earth has Keri Hulme has never had a newspaper column?

She did for a while. in her post Bone People flush of media friendliness. It was in one of the then Sunday papers, when she also wrote occasional Listener reviews.

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:31:19 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355802#post355802 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355802#post355802 One revelation for me last year was realising how much “the Maori media” had replaced mainstream news outlets and websites for me, Maori Television news and current affairs shows in particular. I include Media Take in that, and other outlets such as Te Karaka.

Maybe now we do indeed have…

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:15:16 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355801#post355801 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355801#post355801 Then the section editor changed and he was dropped for an Iain Sharp column, which as far as I am aware never generated a single watt of illumination, apart from the glare of his whiteness (which he can;t help of course).

I gather he's a very nice man, but I…

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:00:14 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355800#post355800 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355800#post355800 Today’s Tremain ….

Edgy!

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:52:18 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355799#post355799 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355799#post355799 Maori columnists are few because they do not fit in the narrow band of acceptability that has ruled NZ print media forever.

For instance why on earth has Keri Hulme has never had a newspaper column? Her work in Te Karaka, the Ngai Tahu magazine, is wonderful.

]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:39:37 +1300 Adam Gifford https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355787#post355787 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355787#post355787 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:13:32 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355756#post355756 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355756#post355756 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:28:45 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355755#post355755 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355755#post355755 “There are now no regular Māori columnists in the mainstream media”
I actually know a few Maori, writers of all kinds of things.
Not one of them, I believe, would stoop so low as to work in the MSM.

]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:09:24 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355727#post355727 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355727#post355727 I think this is the link you want:

Ha ha – it is!

It's not actually a Hendrix doco, but part three of Music Moguls, on music PR, and it's an amazing if alarming, watch.

]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:43:42 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355724#post355724 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355724#post355724 Monday on my mind…
I also see that Lizzie Marvelly’s column, like most other MSM coverage of Waitangi Day, does not note that for the first time since the passing of the ‘Mondayisation bill’ in 2013, that we get a holiday on Monday for Waitangi Day falling on a weekend.…

]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:14:13 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355723#post355723 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355723#post355723 Note that Lizzie Marvelly said yesterday she has Te Arawa heritage and today writes in her Herald column about Waitangi Day in that context
I think this is the link you want:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11585379

but I will watch that Hendrix doco some time...

]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:08:13 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355722#post355722 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355722#post355722 today writes in her Herald column about Waitangi Day in that context. ]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 08:43:16 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355572#post355572 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355572#post355572 Tahu Potiki used to have a column in The Press, but I can't find any recent ones past mid-to-late last year – perhaps he disappeared with 'the improvements' that have been made...
Destiny Church apologist Potiki's sidelining seems to have happened in parallel with hereditary Rogernome James Caygill's elevation from…

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:16:58 +1300 Joshua Drummond https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355571#post355571 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355571#post355571 A couple of Maori columnists coming in from this post being shared around on Twitter:

The excellent Lizzie Marvelly is Te Arawa (Ngati Whakaue) and she counts as an MSM columnist over at the Herald.

And there's Tommy Wilson over at the Bay of Plenty Times.

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:15:41 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355567#post355567 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355567#post355567 Tahu Potiki used to have a column in The Press, but I can't find any recent ones past mid-to-late last year – perhaps he disappeared with 'the improvements' that have been made...

...regular Māori columnists in the mainstream media
Surely Toi Iti on Media Take is in…

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:51:46 +1300 Joshua Drummond https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355566#post355566 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355566#post355566 I miss Tapu Misa's columns in the Herald.

Shit yes. They were really good.

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:46:22 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355563#post355563 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355563#post355563 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:16:20 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355562#post355562 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355562#post355562 The issue becomes even more acute when you consider how important Dr Walker’s Listener columns were. At first fiery and then more scholarly, they introduced The Listener’s mass readership to ideas it may not have had to consider before.

I’d unhesitatingly nominate Morgan as a writer who could fill that…

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:03:49 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355561#post355561 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-blinded-by-the-white/?p=355561#post355561 Discussion from blog post.

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