Radio New Zealand Have Excellent PR

Avid readers – and I’m not convinced there are any, but on the off chance – may have noticed an angry post from me about Radio New Zealand that went up over the weekend. I stand by some of what I said, but I’ve been rung by the Radio New Zealand Communications Head who has corrected me on other parts – so impressive PR from Radio NZ to have picked up on it and dealt with it politely. Here goes:

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Facile Fining Fisk

David Farrar has provided a damning post, mocking Labour’s Darien Fenton for suggesting the rich be fined more than the poor for traffic offences. Full of magnificent mockery, the post however completely ignores (either willfully or accidentally) the real argument behind such a fining regime.

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Incendiary Immigration Incitement

If this guy was a better speaker, this would have been one of the greatest pranks of all time. As it is, it’s still not bad.

For context, he somehow got on the speaking list at an anti-immigration protest, and delivered this:

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Student-Stymying Scandal

Let me say up front, I’m a supporter of strike action. If you don’t think you’re being treated fairly by your employer, and discussing it with them isn’t fixing it, then what better way to get the message across that simply refusing to work on their terms. It’s an important part of a functional employment landscape.
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Imbecilic Intimidation Issues

Poor, disadvantaged Joel Cosgrove and Heleyni Pratley of the Wellington Workers Party are up in arms that they have been trespassed from Victoria University for protesting fee rises, in a press statement entitled Victoria University: No Free Speech Here Thanks.

Wait… hold up a second.

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Candidate Mocks Mount Albert: Mount Albert Fights Back

Some of our readers may remember recently, when Jackson spearheaded an earnest campaign to win the seat of Mount Albert from his stronghold in Wellington. Resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media, the campaign was still a great success, with almost tens of Mount Albert residents swinging in behind Wood.

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Ghastly Green Goading

Oh Green Party, why do you goad me so?

So often I want to agree with you, really I do. You used to support an emissions tax over an ETS – quite rightly – then cast that into the wind for some reason as far as I can tell.

But luckily you kept some of your wits about you, and are calling for some fairly obvious changes to the ETS, with regard to intensity based allocations, price caps, etc. Again, you are right on calling for these changes – thank you.

But then you go and manage, in the space of one sentence, to turn off all the goodwill you’ve built up as I read your statement.
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Consistency Win

The same online persona indignantly posted this:

Rather than address what I said, you lay into me with insults

As (link now broken) this:

@suebr Listen Sue, YOU are very DANGEROUS, YOU are ANTI DEMOCRATIC, and YOU need to leave NZ, You are insult to the democratic process!

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Debt-free Doctrine Dogma

Just when you thought that refinancing scammers were already claiming miracles, you get this beautiful piece of spam:

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Ironic Idiocy

I feel I should make it clear at the start that I’m not a big fan of Sue Bradford – but surely people must see the irony in the fact that people are campaigning for legalised smacking on the basis that that violence is appropriate (no judgement being passed as to whether I agree, that’s immaterial), whilst simultaneously these same people are calling for Bradford to be assasinated.

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