As I told you the other day, Bernard Hickey has split from interest.co.nz and is starting up his own journalism.org.nz. No problems with this, everyone seems to have worked it out.
Bernard even jumped on Red Radio and told us Selwyn Pellett was helping him out.
He’s asked for feedback on how much people will pay to read his work.
Comment of the week
Perhaps Bernard’s first story could be how much taxpayer funding Selwyn Pellett has been receiving in corporate welfare over the years? And the rorts that have gone on for R&D and “high tech” funding?
Another comment has raised a roofist sort of argument.
After extensive publicity this week I see numbers have slightly risen in his begging poll to 259 responders.
Still, it is quite clear that Selwyn has loaned his business/marketing trainee/PA Stacey Riordan to the site to run its admin and probably design the site given it looks a lot like hers.
So how much of journalism.org.nz will be driven by Labour funder and “critical friend” Selwyn Pellett? And how can they say they are a “new” sort of thing when they too appear backed by a rich, politically motivated and opinionated friend of a political party?
