NewstalkZB host Tim Wilson, Radio Live’s hilarious new TV advert and thank God someone is doing something about Radio NZs website

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Radio Live take cues from Fox News

I can’t find it online (if anyone else can PLEASE post the link below) but you simply have to watch Radio Live’s latest TV advert.

It’s the most delusional thing I’ve ever seen on TV, it’s like Fox News claiming ‘fair and balanced’. It has Right wing pundit after right wing pundit (except maybe Willie and Duncan) telling the camera that they are open to all viewpoints and how awful would it be if everyone thought the same.

It’s so  hilariously unaware.

A radio station that is in the PMs pocket claiming we should all have different view points while predominately promoting only one viewpoint just sums up why they are struggling.

 

NewstalkZB host Tim Wilson’s weird rant

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I kinda liked Tim Wilson, but his weird rant against gender identification on ZB last week was woefully ignorant…

The devout Catholic claimed on air last night that gender isn’t a “feeling”, but is a “fact”, saying “it’s not something you can decide that you feel like you are. You’re just made that way.”

He went on to say “I think it will just encourage a whole bunch of uncertainty”, and said everyone has some discontent with their body – explaining he wishes he wasn’t so skinny. “I think to legitimise it is very, very dangerous for people with those concerns.”

Wilson referred to Caitlyn Jenner by her former male name and used male pronouns for her and incorrectly referred to intersex people as hermaphrodites.

…how someone self identifies gender wise and sexuality wise is a deeply personal and intimate part of their identity so anyone wanting to step in and tell that person how to identify themselves is simply projecting an intolerant privilege. Tim Wilson let himself down.

 

Radio NZ – the ugly duckling

While slashing 20 jobs is damaging and simply another example of how this Government strangles real public interest debate, news that they will update their awful website is a sign from above that there is a God. The Radio NZ website is second only in ugliness to the poor old Scoop website who – if they ever manage to emerge from their ‘chrysalis’ – needs a make over as desperately as a 40 year old virgin on their first date.

 

UPDATE: The effervescent Alison Mau has taken extreme offence at this blog and has tweeted…

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…being lectured on misogyny by a host who gained her job because the previous host was taken off air for his comments on rape helps remind me why the original point regarding Radio Live was so apt.

23 COMMENTS

  1. I’m pretty disappointed.
    Firstly because I always kind of liked Tim so it’s not nice to hear his views on this.
    Secondly that there is still “devout” Catholics in this day and age. Come out of the dark ages people!

  2. Radio Live is Right wing? It ‘takes its cues from Fox’? Are you serious? And the station is ‘in the pockets of the PM’? Martyn, you’re the one who’s delusional and ‘hilariously unaware’ …

    • Yeah right, cos Sean Plunket (arguably their top/favorite host) is clearly a left leaning liberal. It’s not like he completely ignored the contents of Dirty Politics and instead only attacked Hager for using hacked info.
      Oh wait. That’s exactly what he did.
      A right wing host, using fox tactics to attack the messenger and not the message.

      • Sean Plunket is an odious right wing spinner imo…dangerous because he is good at it and purports to be a journalist

    • Shit Martyn, – Bomber, looks like we have been hit by the right wing trolls here as we are being negatively marked down by Radio Live listeners, or the media paid trolls?

      As before at midday for an hour the Daily blog was jammed up, and now we have negative feedback here.

      Some connection eh?

      They cant stand criticism can they, touchy touchy!

      http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/

      This is Britain’s GCHQ how-to guide for Online Covert Action which, according to Glenn Greenwald (see links below) has been shared with US agencies like the NSA. Upon review, it can only be described as government-sponsored subterfuge of domestic society.

      According to these latest documents, there are paid government agent/contractor persons on social media posing as someone they are not, whilst on the payroll of the government. Their job is to befriend members of the alternative media, embed themselves in the ebb and flow of day-to-day communications, and then to engage in elaborate subterfuge – by any means necessary. The training exercise below uses terms like “befriend”, “infiltrate”, “mask/mimic”, “ruse”, “set-up”, “disrupt”, “create cognitive stress”, “use deception”, “ruin business relationships”, and “post negative information on appropriate forums” – all of which is not only illegal and morally bankrupt, but also runs completely contrary to the very fundamental ‘values’ and indeed founding principles, of a modern free democratic society or constitutional republic.

      Government targets in this malicious operation appear to be bloggers, activists, journalists, social event organisers and anyone else deemed to be a ‘emerging leader’ or voice in the public sphere, or alternative media online.

      • +100…very good points …i have seen evidence of this on some blogs…not this one so much…where they suddenly argue counter to everything you previously thought they stood for ie a strident and seemingly perceptive left winger (personna) suddenly argues full on the same framing arguments as the right wing jonkey nact…and spins for all they are worth repeatedly..undermining the very left political party they ostensible support and work for…makes you very suspicious that they are actually working for some other agency …even country

  3. I can only assume that the person who wrote the copy for the Radio Live advert hasn’t actually listened to the station. I bet he/she nicked it from overseas.

  4. Radio Live is dysfunctional as a “Balanced” broadcaster simply because it has no balance becase it has no counter balance left wing elements to carry the broadcaster forward.

    It involves thongs of right wing rhetoric 24/7 with virtually no left wing balance.

    just name one or a dozen to counter the throngs of right wing pundits who constantly massage the right wing rhetoric.

    I cant thing of any left wing broadcasters among their Radio live line up can you?

      • Yeah but were not talking of the sanitised version – were talking about genuine Social Democratic opinion .

        Which in this day and age is invariably labelled as being ‘ Left’.

        This list is so contrived it adds to the jocularity of NZ media being ‘ balanced’.

      • Your list is a joke, Willie is the only one who has had leftish tendencies, but he has always wanted a bob each way really.

        P.S. Left doesn’t mean they support the Labour Party they are national lite!

  5. Duncan Garner “left wing” what a joke, you want to listen to him any day especially when he has dear leader on the show.

    The rest are not left wing but apologists, especially Willie, two sides at once but in favour of right, so it seems that you right wingers don’t really know the real left winger.

  6. “…how someone self identifies gender wise and sexuality wise is a deeply personal and intimate part of their identity ”

    Perhaps, but that isn’t what Wilson was referring to. His comment was about what gender actually IS, not how we self identify. I may identify as a woman, but I can’t beat biology.

    • You do understand that some people are born with the chemical biology that makes them feel the like the opposite sex

      • Yes, of course. But that same biological quirk doesn’t take away the obvious body parts, including the full reproductive system, that biology gave them. “Feeling” like a woman doesn’t make me a woman. It makes me a man with a chemical quirk that thankfully is not that common.

        • I honestly don’t think you have any real understanding of this issue Gypsy – while a person may have the genitalia of a specific gender, they may biologically be the opposite gender

          • No, they can’t. They can be ‘socially’ of a different gender (which itself can be the result of a vaguely biological quirk), but the sexual gender of an individual is set.

        • How do you know that ” “Feeling” like a woman doesn’t make me a woman”? Have you been in that position? Or are you just engaging in a bit of casual prejudice, Gypsy?

          • Perhaps casual discernment. ‘Feeling’ like a woman doesn’t change the reality of ones physical biology.

  7. Tim is technically right that gender “isn’t a feeling, but a fact” – gender IS LITERALLY defined as having either XX (female) or XY (male) chromosomes, and simply “feeling” you’re the opposite sex can’t possibly make it so as far as your genetic make-up is concerned. That said, he still didn’t have to be a total dick about it, which he clearly was being imo.

    • Gender is the socio-cultural construct based on the biological fact of sex – anthropologically speaking.

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