I don’t always agree with Patrick Gower – but he didn’t deserve this!

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I don’t always agree with Patrick Gower – but he didn’t deserve this weird spear tackle from behind by his own company.

I was listening to this interview at the time, and the awkwardness of it must be the worst Radio of Sean Plunket’s entire history.

Gasp at the pain of Gower giving Sean the frozen shoulder as Sean flounders like a drowning first year Broadcasting Graduate in an interview that Radio Live have removed from their website…

…the National Party is the Titanic, John Key is the Captain, Slater is the iceberg and Sean Plunket, Mike Hosking and Paul Henry are the band playing on the deck.

This was a shocker of an interview and surely Radio Live would be thinking about who else should go into that time slot. Surely?

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  1. So he finishes the call and then asks the listeners “Isn’t this about us testing our arguments, getting our facts, and testing our sources?” Yet throughout the whole conversation, he provides no actual argument, he just fishes for admission without context, he provides no facts, just hearsay from “a caller” whom he also does not test for evidence of the allegation? What a crock of shit.

  2. WTF was that?!

    Are the media now so desperate for sensationalism that they’re taking to cannibalising each other?!

    The one word I have for that exchange is: bizarre.

  3. I just read the Fairfax story on this, where Sean Plunket states,

    “”These claims were based on comments from listeners that I did not check and I have since discovered there is no basis for the claims.” “

    Based on comments from talkback listeners?!?!

    F**k me! Has Plunket actually heard his callers lately? Most of them are deranged in one way or another, with overtly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic tendencies. They’re the caricaturised “mad cat lady” from “the Simpsons” crossed with someone who’s been supping from the sherry bottle or gluepot for waaaaaay too long.

    They make Whaleoil’s commentators *almost* look sane by comparison.

    And Plunket has used the feeble-mindedness of those callers upon which to do a hard interview with Patrick Gower?

    Sean, mate, lay of the gin or solvents or whatever.

    From the tone of Gower’s voice, it was pretty easily to determine that he was thinking, “WTF is this idiot (Plunket) on about?”

    Then again, maybe it’s a salient lesson for some journos to be on the receiving end of stupid questions.

    Just ask Pam Corkery, who had to deal with the same dumbness on Sunday.

  4. This was pathetic, if expected. As was his apology – it’s not as if he’s going to stop being so lazy and dishonest.
    Anyway – didn’t the band have some kind of integrity, by playing music to keep the passengers as calm as possible to help an orderly life-boat boarding process?
    How does that equate to Sean Plunket, Mike Hosking and Paul Henry?
    Bad analogy. I’d have thought they’d be the few entitled assholes who pushed through women and children to get themselves on the life boats – and anybody who thinks that’s not cool is a commie!
    They have essentially become Randians, haven’t they?

  5. Plunket had some promise at Radio NZ but got bored over time and knickers in a twist at not being allowed to moonlight as a columnist at Metro magazine, which he lasted at for about two issues anyway.

    Now he is a pathetic tory windbag, a jock, a therapist for the frazzled of talkradio wasteland. Hopefully Patrick Gower will reflect on being the quarry for once and understand a little of what it is like for those he chases down stairwells and ambushes with irrelevant gotcha questions.

  6. LOL Sean wont go anywhere. Lawsy was there for a while. I actually like Laws more! But I would think either Sean is in #teamkey or his boss has said they need more righty listeners. He goes so hard its unnatural. I’ll listen to Sean once the election is over, maybe.

  7. Plunket wants to start winding it back a bit. Or let’s not warn him, let’s sit and watch the three of them, Plunkett, Hoskings, Henry. The more they spin, the longer the rope really. They’re gonna look so stupid in for weeks …………and so unemployed!

  8. URGENT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    HOW MANY WAYS CAN I REPEAT MY MESSAGE.

    Why don’t the opposition parties YELL STOP KILLING OUR ELECTION.

    This media is totally gone totally toxic, and the opposition parties now must URGENTLY meet and call an emergency meeting to discuss shutting down the election clock and sort this out.!!!!!!

    How many times can I say it, this is my eight posting saying this needs to happen now!!!!!

    The call for an immediate setting aside of NZTV and RNZ studio’s to be made available to all opposition Parties too operate a truly independent election coverage of their policies that TDB and the Standard are both requesting we stop and concentrate on policy!!!

    DO IT NOW OPPOSTION PARTIES AND DAVID CUNLIFFE AS POTENTIAL HEAD OF A LABOUR LEAD COALITION START THE BALL ROLLING HERE.

    If the opposition Parties cant get their message out now that we have begun to concentrate on policy we are all doomed.

    Wake up Opposition members and sort it now.

    • Know where you’re coming from Cleangreen – I’m not sure at this stage that a stand like this from the Opposition parties wouldn’t be twisted up into something else (think of what happened re: Mike Hoskings – moderator). This election will be won by individuals like us – in the community, standing up with counter facts when people we know repeat things they have heard via the Lamestream Media, point out the bleeding obvious and make sure everyone we know who can vote makes their vote count. This will be truly the people’s election – I hope they stand up to the challenge.

  9. RNZ Morning reporter Craig McCully interview coverage with Orivida queen Crusher Collins this morning was revelling, and shows she lied again, as she said that she was cleared by the Privacy Commission but she was not, and Metiria Turei explained all. Good investigative reporting this AM. Bent Edwards confirms there are evidences of truth now in the Nicky Hager book about this.

    A must watch.

  10. haha Sainsbury was filling in for Plonkett today, because he’s “sick”… To be honest i would miss Plonkers crazy right wing sensationalism, as much as i despize him, i think he’s so outrageous that no one believes a word he says. Giving him a t.v. show is going to far tho, keep him on the radio, out of reach of children.

  11. Plunket is a semi retired loser for a “journalist”, that is why he has moved into talk back. Michael Laws and some other former politicians went into talk back, because there was no other way ahead for them in former careers, to spread their opinions. Also some other journalists have made talk back their new “career”, or resumed part time job, as there are too few opportunities to do proper journalism in New Zealand.

    Chatting with disgruntled, often poorly “enlightened”, bitching and ranting folk from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to please old folk that spend their lonely days by the side of the wireless, that is what talk back is mostly about.

    So Plunkers has moved into his final years of being part of the “media”, doing his 3 hours from nine to noon on Radio Live, and only filling in TV shows now and then. His best days are over, and as he loves John Key and his form of governing, he does all to promote the guy and rubbishes the opposition. Occasional attempts to “appear” neutral do not convince, and he is a bore most the time, unless on the very odd occasion, he manages to exploit an opportune event, and gets some key players into an interview.

    I mostly rather listen to another increasingly boring presenter, Kathryn Ryan on Radio NZ, than to bother with Plunkers. What other choice is there, during that time slot?

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