MEDIAWATCH: Dumping Tova is weakness by Luxon and weakness gets stomped in Politics
I think this is a terrible blunder by Luxon that shows real panic creeping in now…
Luxon pulls out of weekly Breakfast media interview
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has pulled out of his weekly appearance on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme.
TVNZ
…the Right Wing Hate Trolls be bleating that Jacinda dumped the Hosking interview so it’s the same thing.
No.
No it is not.
Hosking is a pompous right wing arsehole on a private media company.
Tova is on the public broadcaster and the PM of the day really does have an obligation to front on the Public Broadcaster.
Now to be clear, I argued at the time Jacinda should have stayed and fought Hosking because he’s the hardest interviewer in the game and as PM you have to front, but Jacinda regularly beat Hosking where as Luxon has had a couple of interviews with Tova and he’s been whipped raw in each one!
Luxon pulling out of TVNZ is atrocious behaviour by the Prime Minister and it really looks incredibly weak for him to walk away from public broadcasting and rely on Mike Hosking to promote him.
This is a democracy, the Fourth Estate decides who they put up and it’s his job to be able to answer basic questions. That the Prime Minister feels so insecure that he has to cancel the spot doesn’t bode well for him because it looks weak and in politics, weakness gets stomped.
4 years of weekly slots and 49 interviews across other formats, presumably long form / Covid related.
Tova is a journalist, and Hoskins has denied being one. Tova asks incisive questions, and Hoskins is offensive in the hope that this will provoke a rash response.
“…the Right Wing Hate Trolls be bleating that Jacinda dumped the Hosking interview so it’s the same thing”.
That move didnt pan out well for Adern.
No matter how badly Luxflakes Luxon performs as PM, I sincerely hope he stays in that position, as it helps this horrible bunch of CoCs from being reelected.
#keepluxingon
Not only all of that but Mike Hosking is not hold a formal Journalism qualification.
He is no more than a self opinionated shock jock whose superficiality and vacuity presents easy meat for interviewees who know their stuff.
That is why Jacinda used to whip his soft pudgy arse in an argument all the time and why he would then have to turn to veiled insults, nastiness and sarcasm, followed by lies after the interview was over, to try and gas light the listeners into believing that he had superior knowledge and was across the detail…when clearly he didn’t.
Jacinda’s problem was that she was too polite in contrast to his rudeness.
Not giving an uneducated bully more meat was the only option there.
On the other hand, Tova, is an award winning professionally trained Journalist, working for a Crown entity, that, although operating commercially, does get financial help from the taxpayer….. the same taxpayer that pays Luxon’s salary.
It is Luxon’s duty to turn up and answer questions put forward by a professionally trained journalist when the taxpayer is both funding that media outlet and funding him!
In his last interview with Tova he accused her of harassing him.
This has got ill prepared ‘snowflake’ written all over it and demonstrates that he is definitely not Prime Ministerial material…
Should have stuck to selling men’s face moisturizer and Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream!
Truly pathetic indeed. And whilst I was never a fan of Ardern who got into politics because of child poverty and then sat on her hands, No one can credibly compare RNZ with the totally moronic ZB with the nasty unintelligent talk back twit (probably should have an s on that)!
After 2 yrs, most of us will agree that Luxon is pathetically weak and not fit to be PM! That his party can’t roll him shows their shallow depth. His Tova interview comments were pre-determined, hence why he showed he didnt get it. She just couldn’t get the message through his pompous thick skin. Even his comments this morning about the [?] attempted assassination of Trump [or another distraction [?] show his true colours. Trump, like his war cronies, has blood on his hands! I am not advocating he be put down, just urgently “sectioned” and put in an asylum for the rest of his life. Our world cannot recover and move on until this evil, lying, manipulative despot goes. And please don’t mention democracy re our media. The RW has had unadulterated bias for the past 2 yrs. The tables are turning!
Someone has already run the numbers…
“Ardern maintained her weekly slot with Mike Hosking for approximately four years. By the time she called it, analysis suggests she’d done around 49 interviews with him across various shows.”
“Christopher Luxon, by contrast, cancelled his Breakfast slot after three interviews with Tova O’Brien.”
https://wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/in-the-matter-of-hosking-v-ardern
The right wing narrative on this is a trove of double standards.
Do 49 basically pointless interviews with an ignorant blowhard and get called gutless etc… when you pull the pin.
Do 3 interviews with an actual journalist where you fumble the absolute basics and forget who is on your team and then run away…
Totally fine and normal CEO behavior.
“Luxon feels like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight”.
4 times 52 equals 208, that is larger than 49 although 49 is also larger than 3 so your point is still valid. Maybe I should look at the substack link?
Holidays and other events means that 208 is not realistic either.
Led by economists, politicians believe a faux meme that the Government should be run like a household. The word economics come from a Greek word for household management. Conservative businessmen in Governments claim to have the management expertise required to run the Government like a business. They know how to ‘balance the books’, and cut spending that induces production inefficiency and waste. They love to criticise ‘tax and spend’, and remove regulations and controls.
Those beliefs and those held by conservatives, businessmen, commentators, politicians, and orthodox economists need to be corrected. Thinking the government is like a commercial entity or a household is really a fallacy. The fallacy has a name; a false equivalence fallacy.
It is a fallacy because the government is the backer and creator of our fiat currency. It is an IOU promise of value backed by the Government. Households and business may not forge any money. That is the essential difference. The Government does not need to borrow money. It creates it.
Politicians in Government therefore need to invert the operation away from the business model of State activities. The Government must create and spend money into circulation. The Government when it passes a budget has the authority to have the Reserve Bank create the money for spending. The money must be in circulation before any money can be taxed out of existence. Removal avoids money inflation. Tax payment money is cancelled out of existence as the IOU promise provided for spending has the promise satisfied.
Money is not the action limit as it is for business or for households, rather it is the existence of labour, energy, and resources available to mobilise which is the real limit. Government spending for a public purpose provides the money lubricant for development and the desired growth. That rationed spending will make marginal businesses become profitable and therefore increase profit taxes. Treating the government like a business is wrong. It must come as a shock to realise this fact.
Faith held by Stalin was a good example of the consequences of following a fictitious idea. The fraud Trofim Lysenko had fabricated an idea about a way to produce a crop in cold conditions. The scientist, Nikolai Vavilov, expressed the foolishness of the claim. Stalin had him sent to a gulag where he died. The trial of the flawed idea resulted in mass starvation of millions. Acceptance of false idea can have very serious results which could have been avoided if the truth be known.
Apologies for all the F-words.
The National Economic Mismanagement Party appointed an austerity finance minister whos says (may be believes) that a government is like a household.
Households cant spend money into circulation, print money, regulate banks, control interest rates, control wages, decide deficit levels or levy taxes and back those powers with violence.
It is ludicrous that politicians, journalists, business journalists and economic commentators keep telling punters the government is like a household when clearly it is not.
Tova is truly toxic. Luxon is correct not subjecting himself to her toxicity.
Weak