Posts Tagged ‘ TVNZ ’

Key “out of control”… not

God Helen is such a bore… 

After the TV debate she is claiming that Key had a tantrum. If this had really happened I don’t doubt for a second the MSM would have jumped on it.

It is so pathetic that this is the best that Helen can offer us, the same old repetitive personal attacks on John Key. If being inexperienced means you’re not a cynical vote buying bastard then having Key would be a breath of fresh air.

I’ve heard Key debating in Parliament and he doesn’t sound like a very excitable person, and given his professional experience (of which Helen has zip) it’s highly unlikely that Key would have got where he got in the banking/finance industry by being excitable.

As for her statement about correcting people when they are telling lies, has this woman no shame? She has led a government that has lied, oh sorry, miss-spoke on so many occasions we have lost track.

To be perfectly honest there isn’t much difference between National and Labour in policy. Labour has come over to the ‘right’ preaching things such has fiscal responsibility and various other things that 30 years ago would have been screamed down, National has moved leftwards, although I regard Muldoon as being the most left wing PM we have ever had, banging on about looking after the poor etc etc.

It’s really a matter of style.

If National ‘wins’ it too will have it’s anti smacking moments, brought about by it’s coalition partners, which are likely to be ACT and the Maori Party.

I guess voters have a choice between style of Government.

If you’re sick of the hectoring duo of Clark and Cullen, the slightly sour faced, green eyed attitude towards those that create wealth and the talking to to us muppets who should know better, then it’s a simple choice… vote National.

2008
10/15
CATEGORY
NZ Politics
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Veitch Update

Hmmm, seems to be a few too many updates over the last week!

Anyway, Veitch got what probably coming to him, but should have happened a lot sooner.

I have to agree with David Farrar, this is not something to be played out in the public arena, but hey, hundreds of people are blogging and talking about it so I guess that’s a bit hypocritical.

What is it with the Police, it seems the lowering of standards in recruiting are starting to show through. They will probably stuff the case up completely as they have a habit of doing with high profile cases.

As I predicted we are going to see a whole bunch of ‘for’ and ‘against’ wheeled out over the coming months, so we’ll all get to make up our minds before the jury does and then trash the verdict if we don’t agree with it.

It is somewhat ironic that the court case will become a bit like a reality TV show, except this is reality, not a bunch of wannabe TV starlets trying to hit the big time, and on one will be the winner at the end of it even if he does escape prison – which I reckon is worth putting money on.

I’m glad I don’t have a TV (yes, that’s right, I haven’t owned a TV for four years now) because no doubt it will be played out each night and everyone who does have a TV will be subjected to highly balanced and in dept 30 second coverage on prime time news.

I wonder how TV1 will cover it?

Let the games begin!

2008
08/19
CATEGORY
WTF!
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Tony Veitch quits and gets nailed!

Broadcaster Tony Veitch has resigned from his roles at TVNZ and Radio Sport following revelations that he assaulted his former partner.

http://stuff.co.nz/4621719a10.html

Well he’s taken his time. I guess he was seeing if he could wrangle any cash out of the tax payer (TVNZ) before he went. He’s still claims he’s told the truth, but then I guess it’s what he hasn’t said that’s interesting. I wonder if this is the last we hear of him, hopefully!

As a update… it looks like finally his ex has come to her senses!

Tony Veitch’s former partner Kristin Dunne-Powell has laid a formal complaint with police over the attack at his home. A police spokeswoman said Ms Dunne-Powell had approached police within the last 24 hours.”We have received a formal complaint from his former partner.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4621719a10.html

2008
07/17
CATEGORY
Consumer
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Veitch & Fox… more beating

The Herald has also learned TVNZ bosses are considering keeping Veitch off air until after the Olympics – but then allowing him to return to work.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10520973

I hope this isn’t true, this is a Labouresk reincarnation, take the problem away from the public for a while then they’ll all forget, then reinstate them when every ones preoccupied.

The one hope strangely enough comes from business. Any business would be nuts to have any sponsorship anywhere near someone like Tony Vietch. I can’t imagine any product or service that would benefit from being associated with him, surely he would be a toxic touch. If no company will have a bar of him, then TVNZ won’t be able to use him again.

What puzzles me is why they are even thinking about it. Is the talent pool that shallow that the only option for sports presenters is an admitted wife beater? surely not. There must be a number of suitable people who could be promoted. Are TVNZ that devoid of creative thinking that all they can think about is continuing Veitch’s employment regardless?… no, wait don’t answer that, we’re talking about TVNZ.

Meanwhile across at the Maori Party they are struggling with their own PR disaster as Labout has dropped them in the shit – not the sort of thing that you’d expect from a potential coalition partner in the looming elections, but then I had heard that Clark was going to play dirty, and has she been playing dirrrrty so far!

The Fox scenario is slightly different, his partner is talking to the media and we can get a fuller story, hes also appeared to have stated his regret unreservedly. But you have to wonder what the hell this means from the Maori Party co leader…

“The other co-leader, Pita Sharples, said Mr Fox’s contribution to broadcasting and print journalism as well as being Wairoa mayor in the intervening years shouldn’t be forgotten”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10520995

because I read this as Sharples saying that they’re going to be a bit flexible here because this is a potentially high profile candidate that they want because it’ll give them a good public profile at the polls…

But then again, like TVNZ they might have missed public opinion on this. Are both TVNZ and the Maori Party saying it’s OK to beat someone up, then apologise and you’ll be fine and can go on being a public figure and by extension be a role model for young people?  Because when you strip all the BS away that’s what you get in my opinion. It’s a pretty powerful message, and so very very wrong.

(I was struggling for a picture, but fortunately found a snap shot from a recent TVNZ motivational conference, held somewhere sandy and warm, Taupo is so passe these days for SOE’s)

2008
07/11
CATEGORY
Consumer
NZ Politics
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Tony Veitch Update

I see Mr Veitch has ‘come clean’ and admitted to assaulting his former partner.

Veitch’s assault on his former partner was so vicious that he broke her back in four places. He said he wasn’t making any excuses for his actions, his relationship had just ended and he’d been working seven days a week at two jobs and was on medication for emotional and physical exhaustion.

“I was at the lowest ebb of my life and I needed help.”

He said the reason he hadn’t spoken out before now was that the couple had a confidentiallity agreement because he did not want it to be played out in public.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4613212a10.html

I don’t see how anyone can possibly continue in a public role such as his after this. He’s had years to come clean, and take responsibility for his actions but rather he tried to pay his victim off in the hope that the incident would go away.

That was naive and stupid and almost as bad as the incident itself, although kicking someone so you fracture their vertebrae seems to be able as bad as it gets as he must have been damn close to either permanently paralysing her, or worse, killing her.

There’s no excuse, and he shouldn’t try to make one it just makes it more obvious that he is someone who cannot take responsibility for his actions. He said he wasn’t making excuses and then roles out a bunch of rubbish which looked exactly like excuses. I don’t give a shit if he was stressed because of his job because he was working seven days a week, hell my job’s stressful and I don’t go around smacking people over and use that as a justification! There are thousands of NZders that work seven days a week and they don’t use that as a reason to beat people up. It awfully thoughtful of him not to want it played out in the media so he paid her off, real generous of him.

No one else should defend him and I hope to hell we don’t see some sort of ‘support Tony Veitch’ group.

I’d still like to know what took TVNZ so bloody long to act, If they’ve known about this for a while that is absolutely inexcusable.

2008
07/09
CATEGORY
WTF!
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Tony Veitch & TVNZ

This really isn’t about Tony Veitch personally, although the fact that he is refusing to comment on the allegations that he apparently beat up his ex partner (and not just a slap, but in a way that could land anyone in else in prison) doesn’t look good.

It’s TVNZs reaction that is most odd. As soon as the claims surfaced they should have reacted with lightening speed. If the allegations are true TVNZ cannot have someone publicly fronting programs who commits serious assault – whether or not they are prosecuted for it. It can’t be difficult to sort out this issue, if he admits to doing it then he needs to go, you can’t send the message that it’s OK to beat up women (or anyone else) try and cover it up, and then you can end up being a public figure.

It’s stupid for TVNZ to say it’s a private matter, if you are a public celebrity, nothings that private anymore. I suspect if it has been a private company they would not be nearly so supportive and would have had it sorted out very quickly. The longer this drags on the worse it looks, don’t TVNZ have a PR department?

TVNZ is standing by presenter Tony Veitch, despite an outcry from family violence groups who say the state broadcaster is condoning domestic violence by allowing him to remain on air.

It is understood TVNZ knew that Veitch had assaulted former partner Kristin Dunne-Powell, who needed hospital treatment and was confined to a wheelchair.

http://stuff.co.nz/4610805a10.html

Updates on this issue are here http://consumeist.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/tony-veitch-update/ and here http://consumeist.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/tony-veitch-update/

 

Latest update… http://consumeist.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/what-tony-veitch-got-away-with/

2008
07/08
CATEGORY
Consumer
WTF!
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