Of course Simon Power is stepping down from TVNZ

Simon Power to resign as TVNZ’s chief executive

TVNZ says Simon Power has advised its board of his intention to step down as chief executive at the end of the company’s financial year, on June 30.

The former National Cabinet minister had led the business through a period in which the prospect of a merger with RNZ was explored, and then dropped.

He had been suggested as a potential leader of the new, combined media entity.

Chair Andy Coupe thanked him for steering the business through a period of change.

Oh of course he’s stepping down.

The way Simon Power gerrymandered killing off the RNZ/TVNZ Merger by hiring political hitmen to quell it is so beyond what anyone else is allowed to do, it makes Rob Campbell’s commentary the most balanced utterance ever spoken in the Backbenchers Pub after happy hour on a Friday.

The rest are mere children to the House of Cards level Machiavellian fuckwittery Simon was pulling by bringing in hired guns to take out the merger.

That’s Warlord level interference in local Government.

There’s a reason he got to Number 3 in the National Party, he is a genius at the game and is a high ranking Sith Lord with commercial interests in the House of Slytherin.

To actively interfere in political policy that is directly impacting your Fiefdom, kill it off and get away with it is a master stroke of the game as played in NZ and we just need to give such manipulation a standing ovation.

The RNZ/TVNZ Merger that could have been a real threat to ZB talking points private media  was killed off, actively by the cEO who hired consultants to kill it off…

MediaRoom column: On the eve of a Cabinet decision on the fate of the proposed public broadcasting merger, questions emerge over the engagement by the TVNZ chief executive of two former National government aides to change the narrative and push TVNZ’s view on the Government’s plan

…and the sleepy Hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind got punked once again and were tricked into playing along because it was sold as a big waste of money etc etc etc.

Simon is the master of the dark arts and we all raise a glass to salute his dominance of the game.

Even after Fuck Boy Island, a grotesque clickbait ratings driven orgy of shallow crassness was vomited up against the vision of a public broadcaster free of those market driven dynamics that could provide true public broadcasting with a level of fourth estate journalism that could counter the madness of the conspiracy theory movement, EVEN AFTER THAT, Simon still managed to kill it.

Wow.

The man is good.

Never underestimate the ease with which it takes to trick Kiwis into demanding things that are contrary to their interests as citizens.

 

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