John Campbell

The Labour party opposes Charter Schools because there is no requirement for the schools to hire only registered teachers. They claim it is to protect the children.

Chirs Hipkins even said that in parliament the other day:

Chris Hipkins: … but I am concerned about students’ safety from being in classrooms with unqualified, unregistered teachers …

Hon Nikki Kaye: Is the member saying that children in early childhood centres are unsafe? Is that what the member is saying? Is that what he’s saying to every single child in an early childhood centre.

CHRIS HIPKINS: Yes.

Which makes the story in the NZ Herald about a registered teacher who falsified her records even more funny, not because she managed to fool John Campbell, but because she also fooled the Teacher’s Council the body responsible for registering teachers.

A childcare worker who forged her qualifications has been sentenced to eight months’ home detention.

Tracy Gwendoline Hibberd was found guilty of five counts of forging documents and three of obtaining by deception by a jury at the Auckland District Court in March.  Read more »

Bruce Ferguson has been running around squealing to anyone who would listen that the process for hiring the head of GCSB was unfair.

He ran to the nation’s only opposition, John Campbell, and moaned and threw his toys.

Now He is about to go on Radio Live with Sean Plunket.

With all his histrionics he is acting like someone who applied, or at the least may have been on the short-list that was rejected.

Wouldn’t it be nice if some proper journalists asked Bruce Ferguson if he was on the  short-list presented by the State Services Commission to John Key.

It would be interesting to see what his answer was or whether he too has a “brain fade”.

The latest Truth is on sale today.

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If it is a joke it isn’t very good.  And if it isn’t a joke, Christie is a jerk.  #farmersuicides

John at his sharpest.  A tweet from the void.  No link to a story.  #weneedcontext #worlddoesntrevolvearoundyou

Can anyone explain this to me?  Is she suggesting Elder is covering up Child Abuse in Solid Energy?  #woosh

A few weeks ago, the Government announced it will close 7 schools in Christchurch as a result of the earthquakes.  It really wouldn’t have happened for any other reason.

The MSM, unions and opposition went nanas, suggesting the Government had no compassion.  At the time I asked what on earth they were going on about.

Today, the Government announced it is opening 15 other schools in the greater Christchurch region over the next ten years, starting with an 800 pupil school in Rangiora.

A new school for up to 800 children will be built in West Rangiora by 2017, the Government says.

The school is one of 15 new schools to be built or rebuilt in greater Christchurch in the next 10 years as part of the Government’s $1 billion investment in education in the region.

The West Rangiora school for Year 1-8 students would help meet the ”faster than forecast” roll growth in region, Waimakariri MP Kate Wilkinson said.   Read more »

I guess nature abhors a vacuum.

As reported on Throng, last night’s ratings for Campbell Live finally beat those of Seven Sharp

Via: throng.co.nz

TV3 are all up themselves about it, and TV One are all surly, managing to talk about long term strategies and completely avoiding the elephant in the room:  that TV3 had a (pathetic, yet) killer exclusive last night.

Let’s see what happens over the next few nights, shall we?

Without an “exclusive” Marmite announcment, I doubt they’ll repeat this performance.

Look, I understand some of you are missing the taste of it in the morning, but Stuff is losing the plot with this article foreshadowing its imminent re-appearance:

An impending announcement from Sanitarium is widely tipped to confirm Marmite will shortly be back in production.

Sanitarium, the makers of Marmite, confirmed on their Facebookpage they would be making an announcement tonight at 7pm relating to the production of the breakfast spread.

Yeah, whatever.

But Stuff is just trying to ride the Hype Wave.  Because it gets worse:   Read more »

John Drinnan has written an article about media coverage about Kim Dotcom.

He called me about this, and I note that it appears that the Herald sub-editors have probably chopped most of them out since it was mostly about their fanboi attitude to Kim Dotcom…especially David Fisher who is still running the PR lines for him and also the Herald on Sunday journalist who stood up at the Mega launch, intorduced himself and then gushed about how much “they” love Kim.

Peter Griffin is head of the Science Media Centre and is currently in the United States completing a Fulbright-Harkness Fellowship looking at the future of journalism. He says Dotcom has sometimes enjoyed unquestioning coverage.

“I was really surprised at the launch of Mega last week that the journalists didn’t ask about the moral aspects of the Mega business plan,” Griffin says. Read more »

People are starting to wise up to the felon Kim Dotcon:

Radio station owner Mediaworks has pulled radio advertisements for Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file-locker service off air, according to Dotcom.

Dotcom tweeted that it appeared some music labels had complained to Mediaworks about the advertisements, resulting in the booking for more than 500 advertisements being terminated.

Mega is due to be launched on Sunday, the anniversary of Dotcom’s arrest on copyright and racketeering charges.  Read more »