Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The crisis is all around us, and so are the solutions https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Prudence https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378714#post378714 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378714#post378714 Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:18:22 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378559#post378559 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378559#post378559 How do we effect change to that is the challenge.

I've written about this before, but a good start would be to look at the Scandinavian press regulation model, where rulings on journalistic misconduct would not at all pay. In NZ's case, Press Council/BSA/OMSA rulings on the Generation Lost and…

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2018 22:41:05 +1200 Russell C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378558#post378558 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378558#post378558 Government-friendly media celebrities increased in dominance. Clickbait was so ubiquitous that it was ceasing to be a pejorative term.

Sadly this does not seem to be changing although I wish it would. We are poorly served by our press with a few notable exceptions like Nicky, Paula Penfold, Jon Stephenson,…

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:49:50 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378550#post378550 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378550#post378550 Mark Richards, Duncan Garner. you think!
Their buffoonery is tripping them up already.
Being white, male and have a few miles on the clock. doesn't mean you have escaped cultural conditioning. It more likely to be deeply entrenched, hidden in plain sight.
And that is what we all have to…

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:35:00 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378549#post378549 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378549#post378549 it was the fashion at the time

Still the case.

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:18:23 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378548#post378548 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378548#post378548 Later, TVNZ gave Seven Sharp, the successor to Holmes, to an even more negative and cynical celebrity announcer, Mike Hosking. (TV3 followed by giving prominence to a similar announcer, Paul Henry.)

The pasty-faced fools who did this can perhaps be forgiven considering it was the fashion at the time to…

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:54:26 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378547#post378547 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378547#post378547 There's something that's happened I can't tell you about.

To do with RNZ? I look forward to hearing that when the time is right.

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:12:20 +1200 WH https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378546#post378546 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378546#post378546 She repeatedly misled her board superiors by stating to them that a requested in advance and diarised meeting, just happened as a chance event?

I don't think we needed to lose Carol Hirschfeld's expertise.

There's something that's happened I can't tell you about. It'll come out in due course and…

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:08:14 +1200 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378545#post378545 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378545#post378545 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:13:30 +1200 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378544#post378544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378544#post378544 Now why she felt the need to do this in the first place is a completely different issue?

Richard Griffin?

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:32:02 +1200 FletcherB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378543#post378543 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378543#post378543 ...but I’m a little confused about why Carol Hirschfeld lost her job.

She repeatedly misled her board superiors by stating to them that a requested in advance and diarised meeting, just happened as a chance event?

Now why she felt the need to do this in the first place is…

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:36:31 +1200 SHG https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378542#post378542 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378542#post378542 the RNZ CEO is a political appointee

it's who the what now?

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:00:46 +1200 Dennis Frank https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378541#post378541 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378541#post378541 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:49:30 +1200 WH https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378540#post378540 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378540#post378540 Thanks for the link – I hadn't known of Gordon Bick.

I don’t mean to understate the importance of the nexus between Government and the media but wonder whether the relationships of real influence are being submerged and trivial matters overplayed in this particular instance.

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:58:36 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378539#post378539 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378539#post378539 If this was 1968 or if we were Cool Britannia this whole episode would have been handled differently and no-one would have been made to resign.
Of possible interest.

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:48:15 +1200 WH https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378538#post378538 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378538#post378538 I understand the sensitivity of political interference in national broadcasting but I’m a little confused about why Carol Hirschfeld lost her job.

I’ve read that there are various protocols in place but it’s difficult to see how this kind of transparency facilitates neutrality given that the RNZ CEO is a…

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:37:44 +1200 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378537#post378537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378537#post378537 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:25:19 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378532#post378532 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378532#post378532 OK so I re-read the essay. Caution, rant to follow.

IMHO, it is a piece of almost nauseating naivety. The foundation idea appears to be a breathless belief that if only the media told the public the truth, gave the public the important facts, if only SOMEONE could think of…

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:38:11 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378530#post378530 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378530#post378530 Holy shit. I can only imagine your response if a National government did anything of the kind. Try reading Nicky’s essay again and see if that gets through.

Apparently the Herald posted up 28 stories – all attacking Labour – over the Curran story. It was a group think bullying…

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:57:39 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378528#post378528 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378528#post378528 One can trace things back to the Bolger govt’s deregulating but that doesn’t explain why so many involved in the construction industry and in councils acted deceitfully and incompetently.

We prided our selves on our ingenuity, number 8 wire etc, but that’s proved to be a thing of the past.…

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:20:09 +1200 John Farrell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378527#post378527 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378527#post378527 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:59:58 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378526#post378526 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378526#post378526 In-coming governments must get given by the Manderins some ancient dogeared tome of wisdom with the first three commandments being:

1. Don’t sack hopeless ministers no matter how much damage they cause

2. Equivocate over the meanings of “tax” and “new”

3. Blame everything on the previous government.

We never…

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:07:14 +1200 SHG https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378522#post378522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378522#post378522 It was a bit more complicated than that

my reaction was damn that's the most obliviously-racist whiteperson opinion I've read all day

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:12:17 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378521#post378521 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378521#post378521 If we want to know what a media lapdog looks and sounds like, look no further than the TV stations controlled by NewsCorp wannabe Sinclair Broadcast Group.

How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media

The common thread with what's…

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:09:54 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378520#post378520 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378520#post378520 If Curran had any brains she should work out she might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb and issue a press release citing an irreversible break down in her trust and relationship with the RNZ board and her loss of confidence in the RNZ board & chairman.… ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:59:53 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378519#post378519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378519#post378519 The cutting of critical journalism at Māori Television (in particular the outstanding Native Affairs programme) appeared to be directly the outcome of government influence.

It was a bit more complicated than that. National’s appointment of one of its own, Georgina Te Heuheu, as chair of the Māori Television board may…

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:33:43 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378517#post378517 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378517#post378517 Which is why it was so disastrous for Clare Curran to even give the appearance of going around the system to influence the decisions of Radio NZ’s board and CEO.

Richard Griffin gives every impression of being an arrogant partisan appointment determined to go out with a bang designed to…

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:25:56 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378516#post378516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378516#post378516 It was obvious from day one that the depth of anti Labour feeling had permeated deep into the structure of TVNZ and line managers in the company had bought into the Right WIng policy of how it should be run.

Essentially you seem to be saying the organisation is incapable…

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:18:21 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378515#post378515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378515#post378515 Squeezing or cutting funding, or the threat of this, is a powerful way for governments to punish, reward or otherwise influence publicly funded news.

Which is why it was so disastrous for Clare Curran to even give the appearance of going around the system to influence the decisions of Radio…

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:13:39 +1200 Ron E Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378513#post378513 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378513#post378513 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:59:52 +1200 SHG https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378512#post378512 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378512#post378512 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:27:03 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378511#post378511 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-crisis-is-all-around-us-and-so/?p=378511#post378511 Discussion from blog post.

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