Comments on: MEDIA WATCH: Jacinda loses the Hosking War to win the 2023 Election

By: peter

peter — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:36:55 +0000

“You know what you are stepping into the ring with. … He is as hostile as the law allows and he ain’t no chump. To step back from that is an acknowledgement of a media foe who has beaten the Prime Minister from the battlefield.”

The encapsulates the problem. Is politics a war? Is it a “Me v You” fight? Is an interview with a politician meant to be blood sport?

Over years we’ve had the “Did, your hear so-and-so interviewing so-and-so? He owned her.”
Pre-election debates have got to be sport. Someone has to be a winner, someone a loser. We are the losers. If the subject of an interview won’t, can’t or doesn’t answer a question let us judge them on their prevarication not on the volume, insistence and rudeness of the interviewer.

Notably of course the haranguing and squeezing of questions and demand for limitation of answers is to do with having to go to the commercial break, or in RNZ’s case, to fit the pre-ordained timetable regardless of the detail or background of answers. Once again, we are the losers.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:32:22 +0000

In reply to Like Jeremy better than Mike. Yep those hard questions!

By: bert

bert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:11:24 +0000

In reply to Neel singh. Exactly because he is not subjective, he is anti Labour government and has never offered a balanced debate.

By: Kheala

Kheala — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:49:55 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

‘Most Open And Transparent’ Ardern

Hmmm… The PM finally shakes off the creep who manipulated her into wearing what appeared to be his jocks over her mouth in public, and Andrew cries, “Waahh… She’s not being “open and transparent” enough”.

Sicko.

Meanwhile the defunct once-was National Party are so “open and transparent” that they cannot even provide their own MPs with copies of their own party review?? It is all apparently too.. unviewable. Not surprised, – FOULOON had a role in that. And earlier there was the Woodlouse with the toilet seat and the female MP whom they degraded.

Never mind “open and transparent”, the Nats are rotten and they are hiding their own stinking mess, even from their own MPs.

By: Neel singh

Neel singh — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:02:14 +0000

I main issue with hoskings is why does he only ever read our txt messages and Emails ( unless he has made them up himself) on his show that support his point of view and ignores the thousands others. If he loves australia so much please do us all favor and move over there and give us a better balanced host on air

By: bert

bert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:47:58 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

And on John Key at McGehan Close…

“It was just a sensational visit,” says Pat. “He made a great show of taking a little girl up north, and we never saw him again. It was just a load of publicity bullshit.”

“working for ALL New Zealanders”

Ardern is plausible and if you believe she isn’t compare her to Hosking…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/102974035/mike-hosking-crashes-140k-alfa-romeo-days-after-saying-crashes-are-idiot related
Why be interviewed by an implausible idiot?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/07/mike-hosking-apologises-to-john-tamihere-on-air-after-allegations-of-defamation.html

Mikes own media fan club…himself. Now Mike never showed up for the defamation case .

So Andrew, drop your bias, patsy interviews were reserved for the Hosk and Key.

By: bert

bert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:44:13 +0000

In reply to Alex Stone. Let's be clear, Hosking makes statements, he does not ask questions, end of story.

By: bert

bert — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:39:17 +0000

In reply to DX5. Michael does

By: Liberty4NZ

Liberty4NZ — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:32:24 +0000

In reply to Kheala. He He He

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:36:52 +0000

In reply to Frank Macskasy. Hosking's is a grifter