{"id":948,"date":"2008-11-10T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T10:58:04","slug":"media-the-comment-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"[media] The Comment Section"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furthermore – can we have new political commentators please?
\nIt was hard to stomach the presence all over the TV of professional **** Matt Hootron<\/a>, smugly spinning for his Nats inner circle masters. Hooting is just getting more and more visible, despite being neck-deep in the mire of the Brash National leadership, as revealed in Hager’s “The Hollow Men”. His newspaper column is pure PR for the Nats – how come no-one is talking about the inexplicable moment on Saturday when a victorious John Key, live on TV linkup talking to Hootsmon, told him he was pleased that Hooting could run the “Key wins” newspaper column he’d read earlier? Do all political columnists send drafts of their columns to party leaders the day before they run? I mean, WTF?
\nI’ve talked before about the huge bias in NZ political punditry towards conservative white men, and the surprisingly large representation among them of active National party operators such as Hootron. Our media continues to do us a grave disservice by perpetuating this state of affairs.
\nWhich by no means is an endorsement of token lefty Chris Trotter<\/a>. Incredibly, his post-election column in the Sunday Star-Times began “the NZ left has just suffered its own 9\/11”. This epic lapse in taste and judgment leaves me feeling nauseous.
\nMy recommendation – razor gangs for the commentariat. Chop out the grumpy old men and give the space to new blood, new faces, new perspectives, and particularly to political and perhaps even ethnic diversity.
\nAnd please put Matt Hootie back in his box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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