UPDATE: MEDIAWATCH: Regarding Kamahl, remember the last time Stuff claimed inappropriate comments of a broadcaster?

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I know, I know, I know.

Stuff are suggesting the reason Kamahl left TVNZ Breakfast was because of inappropriate comments.

Before we start the Lynch mob and ritualistic crucifixion of Kamahl, does everybody remember when Stuff made the exact same claim against Martin Devlin and it turned out that the inappropriate comments they alluded to were Devlin dressing down an employee who was shitting all over NZME at work?

Remember how Stuff’s allegations goaded Martin into a suicide attempt because of the lies?

Y-e-a-h.

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So Stuff, who are always trying to find the next MeToo monster, are doing the exact same thing they did with Devlin to Kamahl and no one is pausing and just charging ahead with the witch burning?

Ok.

Could I humbly suggest we don’t actually know what has happened here and maybe before going full Lynch mob, we should wait until we actually know anything?

Once upon a time people were innocent before being proven guilty.

UPDATE: So far all we have are rumours, more speculation and gossip provided as ‘evidence’. Post MeToo the evidential threshold is now whatever someone says on Twitter, the Salem Witch Trials had more jurisprudence. Stuff have claimed he sent a ‘lewd’ email and kissed a co-worker. That’s what his career is being crucified over? A ‘lewd’ email and a kiss? Wow.

 

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48 COMMENTS

  1. The stuffed article alleges “inappropriate behaviour” which is a very broad term. With regard to being “innocent before being proven guilty”, we live in an age where the accusation is the crime and sometimes the crime itself is largely imaginary. I suspect that the presenter will return to Al Jazeera with his tail between his legs.

  4. /agreed!
    Hence my comment on https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/05/29/mediawatch-the-woke-cancel-ellen-for-micro-aggression-crimes-against-humanity/ made partly with Kamahl S in mind.

    Stuff has its good and bad ‘journalists’ just as any other platform, but sometimes I wonder whether the worst of them are driven by their comments section in order to be popular/populist. Not one of Simon Plumb’s better moments for sure. Perhaps he’s angling at a job with Dan Wootton. (Here’s hoping)

    And Kamahl probably is having a family emergency – all of them wondering what the fuck hit them returning after 20 or so years.

      • Mid 20th century there was a close control kept on bad language. Certain words were no-nos but actually afvising what was said was difficult as it was illegal to utter them on public communications channels, ie telephone or by mail. We seem to have trouble being practical. pragmatic and appropriately polite about what is reasonable to do or say.

  7. 100% Bomber, as soon as I read it, I thought MD all over again!

    Couldnt help initially thinking, I wonder if he quit because he found out that he was now in Wokestan and not free to pursue genuine journalism? How embarrassing for TVNZ if that was the case.

    Hence the family issues agreement. Except maybe it wasnt good enough for some of the staff that work there and so the insidious ‘inappropriate behaviour’ rumour was born.

    Someone else suggested, that the ‘inappropriate recruitment practices’ comment is at the heart of it. How about the militantly woke ladies (sorry Matty) on the show didnt like that having seen Campbell off at last, they didnt get a shot at the prize because 16 years at Al J and a NZer meant they couldnt compete. So they ‘saw him off’.

    Vicious supposition I agree but no worse than what Stuff has done to yet another veteran broadcasters career.

  8. I totally agree with Martyn, I am not in the habit of watching breakfast TV although I suspect he could have made a comment along the lines of “the show would improve if the current female presenters left” thinking it was just giving an honest opinion only to be caught in the backlash.
    I have not watched the show enough to pass any opinion on how valid the comment could be so I want to make it clear that I do not have any personal opinions about the presenters.

  9. Well, this is some “Hard Copy News”. The Daily Blog needs to get a journo and a camera out there and door-stop those TVNZ Breakfast Woman 4:30am Mon morning. Ask them all are you the female complainant? Are you doing this for a woke gender reason or a woke race reason? Did one or all the females threaten to quit if Kamahl wasn’t cancelled? Then the weak kneed Yarisich needs to explain why he gave into blackmail and how much the taxpayers are on the hook for his woke decision making. Please get to the bottom of this before the taxpayers union.

  10. It’s pretty much a given that if you join a media organisation or associate with people of that ilk, you’re going to be surrounded by narcissistic backstabbing wankers. Far better to get a real job, with real people.

    Tell me I’m wrong Martyn.

    • @Andrew … Spoken like a true ‘media blog organisation or associate person of that ilk, surrounded by narcissistic backstabbing [right-leaning] wankers’… right on the ball Andrew! Couldn’t have summed up you right-whingers better, if I had thought of it myself! Thanks Andrew!

  12. Innocent until proven guilty.

    But sounds like justice is running even slower and less efficiently in NZ as they keep clogging up the system with more ‘thought based or subjective’ crimes that woke have added and poor investigations of traditional and non traditional crimes.

    Is it a 2 year wait for justice now in NZ?

    Sounds like we are heading for the US injustice via massive times to get a court date and they keep prosecuting more and more people.

  13. Sean Plunket at the platform, at the end of his Maurice Williamson interview on fb (sorry can’t link) is claiming that a “certain person” resigned from TVNZ the day after the budget – and the broadcasting minister was notified.
    Why?

    • Update:the story appears true, why on earth is the broadcasting minister now asking for details over an employment matter at TVNZ?
      Does the minister require total control of the propaganda outlet rather than letting media run at arms length?
      Isn’t this an operational matter at an organization with managers who deal with this?
      This looks very North Korea.

  14. And while STUFF and a couple of others are busy attempting to justify their jumping to conclusions – probably based on what they see as being in the ‘public interest’, I hope they’ve got their ducks all lined up.
    (although if they haven’t, there’ll be no qinsequences)
    It started with the “appearancy” of one or two AJE employees also claiming inappropriate comments from Komahl S.
    If you know how AJE works, big chances are the complainants are fellow Koiwois – relatively cadets by comparison with KS. (Bless their fragile cotton socks)
    JESUS! and the plan is to merge RNZ and TVNZ?
    An RNZ takeover of TVNZ might be a better proposition

    Kamahl – get the fuck out of this insular, unsuphusticated lil nayshun that punches above its weight while you can. The aggro and effort in just doing your job ain’t worth it.
    TRT or DW maybe? Possibly even Canada

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