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From 3 News [emphasis mine]:

A spokesperson for Radio New Zealand released this statement to 3 News this afternoon.

“Mr Bradbury’s invitation to take part in The Panel discussion segment was withdrawn because his personal comments about the Prime Minister were deemed to be in breach of Radio New Zealand’s editorial requirements for fairness and balance. One of his comments was regarded as being potentially defamatory.

“Mr Bradbury’s comments were inconsistent with information he had provided to programme producers before going on air.

“Mr Bradbury later apologised to the programme’s executive producer. It was made clear to him that while his invitation to appear as an occasional guest on The Panel was being withdrawn, it was not a ‘lifelong ban’ and it did not apply to other Radio New Zealand programmes.”

That is quite a different story from what the lap blogs, Labour MPs and the sacked Radio NZ blog post reader, Martyn Bradbury have been saying.

The sacked Radio NZ blog post reader, Martyn Bradbury also accused me of lying about the reasons he was given the arse. At the time I was just guessing as to the reasons but Radio NZ have now confirmed that they were misled as to what he was going to be talking about.

He was not banned for criticising the PM, he was banned for being a dick.

via Mashable

Indie-rockers the Vaccines are debuting their new video for “Wetsuit,” which was almost entirely crowdsourced from fan photos submitted through Instagram, the photo-sharing app for iPhone. The video follows a festival-goer in a red hoodie from daybreak to day-ending Vaccines concert. Other than brief video segments, the entire video is from Instagram.

Fans were asked to take pictures of themselves at festivals and submit them by tagging them with #vaccinesvideo. The band received nearly 3,000 photos and approximately 15,000 likes on Instagram. The project, put together by Anomaly, also had an international splash with people from 99 countries visiting the contest site. It was then up to director Poppy de Villeneuve to sort through and pick the best photos to use and in what order.

The pinkos are whining about being hard up at Radio NZ.

Radio New Zealand’s financial strategy rests on cake stalls and selling a couple of grand pianos, MPs have been told.

The public broadcaster’s chairman, Richard Griffin, told Parliament’s commerce select committee yesterday that it could only survive a government funding freeze for a further two years.

The board was now considering asking listeners to help fund its Concert station. “We’re looking at the real possibility of setting up a trust … in an attempt to actually have people reach into their pockets on the basis of their belief in public broadcasting.”

The board was unsure if a trust could elicit much extra money. “But something has to be done … We can’t live forever on the [current] funding.”

Here’s a thought…Radio NZ has the largest audience, they are essentially moochers because the station carries no ads. How about they start carrying some advertising, in small amounts, say around news bulletins to make up the shortfall.

People might buy sausages of the local scout group but they sure as hell won’t for Red Radio. Every other radio station has to run ads to survive, time for Red Radio  to join the real world.

Ad free National radio is definitely a “nice to have”

I’m on Radio Live today from 3 till 4 with Willie Jackson, John Tamihere and Matt McCarten.

Seems fair odds, one righty vs. three pinkos

This was up in Auckland where the current Len Brown one is, it was also up in Petone. I think Tui are on fairly safe ground with this one. I seriously doubt we will be seeing Terry Serepisos fronting The Apprentice ever again.

Is it possible that Trololo man can be beaten? Could be. Now we have Looky Looky man.

If the NZSO was any good they wouldn’t need a subsidy. They would be able to charge enough from ticket sales to fund their operation. They cant, and they shouldn’t keep sticking their hand out. They are not a hungry oliver twist asking for more, they are a luxury this country can ill afford in tough times.

Going on last years figures, every time some liberal elite wanker went to the NZSO it cost the tax payers a little over $162. That’s if the total of 82,442 did not include the huge numbers of freebies they usually give away to politicians and other troughers. The highest ticket price of $145 did not even cover the cost of the show.

Dominion Post classical music reviewer John Button said the orchestra was playing better now than at any time in its history. Any change that would curtail its ability to perform or tour would be silly, he said. “It’s part of the national PR image of the country.”

This is total bullshit. It is a myth created by liberal elite fuckwits, and needs to be challenged. They need to prove this not hide behind slogans.

A few judicious OIA requests asking where the research is saying that NZs PR image requires a symphony orchestra should bust this particular.

Last year the NZSO said any cut in musician numbers or salary cuts would mean it would lose its most talented players.

Really? In the middle of a global recession? When the world has an over supply of musicians but an undersupply of money? If we were to cut the salaries of the symphony ochestra staff by 30% how many of them would be able to get a better job overseas?

Let market forces determine whether New Zealand has a symphony orchestra. Stop the subsidies now.

In fact ditch the whole lot, or make them play wearing piggy noses. I doubt you’d get thousands marching in the streets in support if symphony music. And while I am on the warpath would some liberal elite wanker please explain why it is that we have the NZSO getting public money anyway, who decided we needed such a thing, and who decided we needed a Concert Programme on our wireless, paid for by the taxpayer so the same liberal elite wankers can listen to something in their Toyota Prius.

Kris “Tardis” Fa’afoi says he mis-spoke when he fondly remembered the opening of the Porirua McDonalds….from Christchurch, when he was just a couple of months old.

But when does mis-speaking become lying?

The first time?

Mr Faafoi first made the comments in an interview with The Dominion Post and repeated them in an television broadcast. He has since said he “mis-spoke” and meant to say it was where he had his first McDonald’s burger.

The second time?

Or the third time?

or the fourth time?

With that much lying going on, anyone would think he had met Richard Nixon at some point…..oh wait he did…with Elvis.

Kris Fa'afoi at his famous meeting with Elvis and Richard Nixon

Note to the editors of The Dominion Post and Andrea Vance. My work is  Blogged under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. That means you can use my photos, with attribution, if you ask. A link would be nice too.

hat tip Watts up with That

I’m sure many of you have heard of the “complete list of things caused by global warming”.

When you see all the things this menace to society causes its a wonder that we haven’t had laws passed to control it…oh wait!

Here is a short video of the A to Z of bad things climate change is causing.

William Shatner sings Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You“. The Wikipedia entry for Fuck You explains a little more about the song and the different versions. I’ve seen it on NZ TV under the “Forget You” version.