Mayor Wayne Brown tells journalist: ‘Don’t f***ing come and talk to me’
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown launched a diatribe against a journalist yesterday after he was questioned on the council’s proposal to cut arts funding.
“Don’t f***ing come and talk to me,” Brown said to Spinoff journalist Sam Brooks.
“Write a submission and make it clear that you value it [arts funding],” he said.
The encounter came after Brown made a speech defending the proposal to cut council’s contestable funds for cultural events and the arts at the Auckland Art Gallery on Tuesday evening.
Come on everyone!
To be fair now, I think we would all tell a Spinoff ‘Journalist’ to go fuck off.
Look – righteously hate on the privatising Boomer King for cutting arts funding and being a crazy old prick who only won thanks to a rigged Mayoral election process that purposely disenfranchises the poor from voting, but let’s not think shitting on The Spinoff isn’t essential!
Life is short, take time to pick the flowers and always remember to take a warm creamy shit on The Spinoff because you never know when you might not get the chance again, and wouldn’t it be disappointing to miss the possibility to just clip them on the side of the head while passing by?
The way The Daily Blog does to Dave McCormack any chance we get.
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They’re just the PC version of Counterspin, fattened with wasted government funding.
LOL Love the headline!
Why would Wayne spend a cent on the arts?
> We have a city to rebuild after the flood.
> We have to slash the budget to avoid a debt trap.
> You can bet almost nobody in ‘the arts’ voted for Wayne.
Some reports suggest the dude didn’t identify himself as a Spinner so Brown may have though too he was just telling a dickhead to bugger off.
Hard to know the finer, but often important details only, from hearsay.
Is funny. I just watched this via boingboing.net.
The Daily Show ( ? )
“Hasan Minaj tears Twitter and its users a new one, then deletes his account”
https://youtu.be/W9KjWvMhPNs
Doesn’t matter. For the Mayor of our largest city, a bit of decorum wouldn’t go amiss, otherwise he’s on the same level as the names he’s calling other people.
That is so true. Although not sure decorum and Brown should be used in the same sentence RosieLee.
So where does it say in the NZ Communications Act that people have to talk to spinoff? Or any journalist for that matter?
Media are probably classed below real estate agents and secondhand car dealers and peado’s.
“To be fair to Wayne Brown, we would all tell a Spinoff Journalist to f off”
lol
I hope they cancelled drag shows for toddlers.
Looks like they replaced those shows with ‘ranting by stupid old w*nkers’. Brown doesn’t help the argument for ridding ourselves of ageism.
I think people, society have all become a bunch of judgemental whiny fucks because of their own shortcomings and inadequacies, insecurities, who just need to feel just that little bit more superior than some else.
In a world with 8 billion people or more…its a bloody tough climb to the top.
Theres a saying that goes something like,” if you have nothing good to say, abou someone or something, shut the fuck up!”
Or better still. Get some perspective and a life losers.
Class culture and neoliberalism are the real enemy.
Oh, and the wokes, mental greenies, fascist muddle classes ect … need to filter them out and deport them back to their motherland.
Don’t stress so much @ Martyn.
Exasperation is going to get the better of you, and you’re probably getting to be a prime candidate for a stroke as you enter your mid-life crisis, worrying too much about the muppets and the comfy little wankers in the media trying to show us how clever they are.
Keep doing what you’re doing without the frustration and stress.
We really do need some decent comedic relief (funded by NuZull on Ear) that ridicules at least the worst of them.
Maybe just accept that while there are increasing numbers doing it tough, there are just as many in that upper muddle class bracket (especially in the media) that are becoming what we used to call ‘WET’. Some of them are soaking in fact.
Unfortunately too many of them are displacing some of the better journalists who struggle to find a platform in which to be heard, but it’s not going to last forever. They usually get too clever for their own designer boots.
Who is Dave McCormack?
It’s worth reading the piece in the Herald today. (Surprisingly not by Simon Wilson)
According to Christopher Swarbrook, a member of the galleries advisory board, who witnessed the event. ‘Brooks and his acquaintance were extremely aggressive, and baited the Mayor”. Made insulting and derogatory remarks when he tried to intervene and defuse the situation.
If true, perhaps the headline should be: Spinoff Journalist Brooks fired for unprofessional aggressive behaviour towards elected official.