Maybe Phil was expecting a Paul Henry who was slightly humbled by Lizzie Marvel’s principled stance to boycott the show in the wake of his gross description of women’s breasts to a journalist.
Phil was wrong.
Paul Henry has shot his mouth off in an interview while Max Key yells out ‘Real men ride bikes’ to a bunch of cyclists.
Q+A was excellent, The Nation made you wonder how they get so much money from NZ on Air.
Will the media buy this absurd claim that the Police were just acting on good faith and that this wasn’t a training exercise?
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We are allowing the cult of Rugby to over shadow civic issues far larger than an Ozzie Coach having a rant!
Focusing on the supposed morality in all of this eclipses what I really think the Wright/Tostee story confronts us with.
There are times when TVNZ and its true public broadcasting purpose shines so brightly you are reminded, ‘we should probably keep that as a public asset’.
…of course this has been released while it’s a Friday before a long weekend so absolutely no one is going to be even remotely aware that NZ SAS are helping guide in air strikes. So have we been involved in any of the air strikes that have killed civilians?
You would think that our out of control prison nation expanding by another 1800 bed private prison or our obscene suicide rates would lead any news site in NZ.