I didn’t sign this open letter. I wasn’t asked to. Whether I would have or not I guess will never be clear. Academics lead push for Holmes’ scalp The hot water keeps getting hotter for broadcaster Paul Holmes, with high-placed calls for his scalp after his racist and sexist slurs on talkback radio. Prominent New [...]
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Fairly unsurprising, really. ZB have stayed tight-lipped on this. In the long run, it’ll prove to be the smart move, no doubt, but in the meantime, they’re going to have to take a fair bit of criticism on the chin. Still – y’know – Paul Holmes is usually the least of their worries. Have you [...]
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Kind of a shame, because it was a good idea that cleverly exploited a loophole to the advantage of a minority community. Perhaps it’s evidence of a need for a non-commercial frequency to be allocated for that same community to replace the loss of its low power network. It’d be interesting if that happened… because [...]
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Don’t be fooled by the headline below: nobody’s losing anything… they’re just shifting the advertising spend to another show. Mitsubishi score goodwill points for withdrawing support of Holmes, they get good PR column inches in the newspapers as well as their usual television advertising, and TVNZ retain all money initially promised. Win-win. TVNZ loses sponsor [...]
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