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Paul “Weeman” Hinton has jumped onto Sunday’s Facebook page and posted this comment.

Quite apart from the outrageous lies he told on the show which I will cover in a separate post about Sunday, this comment is really beyond the pale and needs to be addressed.

He complains about me posting about his dodgy secondary business called Hunger Strike, despite that very term featuring in the emails that Matt Blomfield provide to Sunday and that they showed on screen.

“Weeman” made out on the show that his run in with Hell was over a Hell branded caravan, and only that caravan. This is not strictly true. Hell and “Weeman” did have an issue over the caravan particularly his propensity to operate the caravan and not declare the revenue from it for his franchise calculations. Then of course there was the involvement of this caravan and the missing $13,000 that Warren Powell gave to Matt Blomfield and Paul Hinton to settle up the KidsCan issue.

After the Hell branded caravan was bought off “Weeman” and paid for, apparently over $60,000, Paul Hinton then set about creating Hunger Strike caravans. Hell subsequently found out that the caravan they paid over $60,000 for did not have gas compliance.

Paul Hinton created several “Hunger Strike“caravans while still a franchisee and stocked those caravans with what he described as “tasty treats”. What that really meant was Pizzas made with Hell recipes, Hell ingredients, supplied from Hell suppliers to his Hell franchise but never booked as revenue under his Hell franchise agreement. Paul Hinton was essentially operating in competition to Hell Pizza using their products and their intellectual property. Not only that he intimated to venue operators that he was an official Hell outlet, especially at Mt Smart Stadium. He even towed and operated the caravans from a Hell branded ute.

Paul Hinton, it appears, never told the Sunday programme or John Hudson this, despite it being published on my blog weeks ago. Paul Hinton lied by omission and in the process made the Sunday programme complicit in the lies because of their poor research.

When Hell Pizza discovered what Paul “Weeman” Hinton was up to they decided to initiate termination action. But Paul Hinton was already wanting to sell the franchise, but I doubt he told Sunday that.

Recent photo of Paul Hinton wearing a Hell jacket

Since Sunday has decided to ahead with the story fed to them by Matt Blomfield it is perhaps time to give another update on the ongoing story of the history of Matt Blomfield, so that people who watch that programme can understand how they have just been fed a line of rubbish by a master manipulator.

Remember too readers that in the last update Matt Blomfield had followed his form over the years and gone and laid a vexatious complaint with the Police in an attempt to put pressure on me to stop telling the truth about him. The Police quickly determined that I do not have stolen files and that it is in fact a civil matter.

Going to the Police didn’t work so well for Matt. He still needs to learn what NFWAB means.

It isn’t a crime to tell the truth about people. It isn’t a crime to expose their dirty dealings.

My stories so far have been to tell the whole story behind Hell, which I will continue to do in coming weeks (or days).

Meanwhile The Blomfield Files are:

Faces of the Day - Matt Blomfield and Mike Alexander

Who really ripped off KidsCan? – The real story of Matt Blomfield’s rip off of Kidscan and how he blamed Warren Powell.

How did the media get the story so wrong? - How Matt Blomfield fed the media the Kidscan Story.

Knowing me, Knowing You – Matt Blomfield

The Weeman Caravan Adventures – One of the aggrieved.

Does Matt Blomfield have a tame Liquidator? - Matt Blomfield’s liquidator seems to have a very loose interpretation of the rules.

Greed – not just a billboard from Hell - A short summary of what had been exposed so far.

Operation Kite – Matt Blomfield and Mike Alexander are involved in stealing a cheque and laundering it. Matt Blomfield was pursued by a major bank and lost the case. Private investigators were used to uplift the cheque.

Is there more to this Ménage à trois? - Bruce Johnson, Matt Blomfield and Rebecca Blatchford/Anderson/Blomfield (his partner and sometime wife) and their unusual accounting practices.

Matt vs Mike – Matt Blomfield and Mike Alexander

Ghostwriting for Repeaters 101 – How Matt Blomfield used Maria Slade a Herald on Sunday reporter.

Brothers From Another Mother – Yuta Iguchi and Matt Blomfield and their cosy relationship.

How to lose friends and infuriate people

Something to be proud of… - One of Matt Blomfield’s first charity ripoffs.

Ghostwriting for Repeaters 101, Ctd - How Matt Blomfield colluded with the NBR for yet another bad news story about Hell Pizza.

The Aggrieved - Outlining some of the alleged aggrieved franchisees who are being marshaled to moan to the media by Matt Blomfield.

Random Impertinent Questions for Matt Blomfield - How can a bankrupt be selling businesses on Trademe?

An Email from Matt Blomfield - Matt Blomfield emails me

Matt Blomfield and his bad mattitude - I out the truth of Matt Blomfield’s common assault problem.

Matt Blomfield and his Bad Mattitude, Ctd – Matt Blomfield threatens to punch the boss of Signature Homes.

Blomfield Files: Free to a Good Home – Now that the Police have established the files aren’t stolen, they are still available, though I am in discussions with some outlets.

The Blomfield Files: The Compromise - The tale of Matt Blomfield and the nice cosy deal he made with the “independent” creditors trustee and Mike Alexander in order to try to give all his creditors the flick with just 10c in the dollar.

Blomfield Files: The Compromise, Ctd - While Matt Blomfield was busy trying to stich up his creditors, his lawyer Mike Alexander was sending glowing references about Matt Blomfield to people.

Blomfield Files: The Perfect Storm - The start of the investigation into the goings on with the Storm Group. This is the story of the missing digger and truck.

Blomfield Files: The Perfect Storm, Ctd - The digger and truck are recovered and investigations show that far from being stolen by un-named people they were in fact converted by Matt Blomfield and his brother.

The Aggrieved, Ctd - Sunday is again running a Matt Blomfield fed story about so-called aggrieved franchisees who had their dreams shattered…despite them being given the arse-card for being either broken-arsed 0r a health risk. We know Matt Blomfield fed the story because they use an email that only he would have a copy of…which ironically is one of the reasons why the Police decided I didn’t have stolen files because if that was the case then Matt wouldn’t have been able to give the email to TVNZ.

A conversation with the Police - The Police decide that Matt Blomfield is a liar, and that I don;t have any stolen property.

SUNDAY welcomes repeater Matt Blomfield to the team.

I blogged the other day about “The Aggrieved“. The so-called aggrieved franchisees from Hell Pizza. Funny how it is the same three that always get rolled out when Matt Blomfield sells a story to the media.

I have just seen the promo for Sunday’s show about Hell Pizza on their Facebook Page and it is as I suspected. Perhaps readers should enlighten them as to the facts.

They are using Benji and Natasha from Khandallah, Shaun from Dunedin and Weeman from Pukekohe.

These will be “poor woe is me” stories without the full story being told. This is again another Matt Blomfield special.

Listen to him tell me that he knows all about the show:

Here is an email between Callum Davies and Matt Blomfield about Matt telling all to Sunday in September last year:

As a taster about how wrong Sunday are here is an email from Natasha explaining that they needed “us time” as the reason for selling.

I bet Natasha and Benji didn’t tell Sunday that they had the worst store in New Zealand on cleanliness and performance. I bet Sunday isn’t aware of the full email conversation that they are going to release on the programme for full shock value. I bet Sunday is going to regret getting a copy of that email from Matt Blomfield.

In this email exchange Matt is pushing Stu ‘McMillions’ McMullin to exit Warren Powell out of Hell NZ, why would Matt be doing that? And why did Callum & Stu push Warren out?  I will cover the reasons behind this in a later post. Note that Matt Blomfield, a bankrupt was trying to get shares in Hell Remuera placed into his family trust. Did Matt inform his OA about the possibility of these shares?

Here is the full email exchange and you can see despite their promo featuring Warren Powell the real arseholes are Matt Blomfield and Callum Davies.

Blomfield Files: Operation Bumblebee Email

Here is another email trail showing that Matt Blomfield, Stu McMullin and Callum Davies concocted “Operation Bumblebee” and at the last minute called in Warren Powell to be, as Callum Davies states, “be the big bad wolf“.

Blomfield Files: Khandallah_Email

As a further taster here is a photo from Shaun’s Dunedin store [Please note that Shaun is no longer the franchisee, there is a new franchisee in this store and it is meeting all health standards]

I bet also that Shaun didn’t tell Sunday that his brother in Nelson is one of the biggest agitators along with Matt Blomfield. I bet he also didn’t tell Sunday that him and his brother are trying to establish a franchisees association even though he isn’t a current franchisees and his brothers store is on the market.. I bet they also didn’t tell Sunday that their efforts are going nowhere because the majority of franchisees are doing OK.

I’ve had quite a few calls from existing franchisees who have been exceedingly grateful that I have been telling the true story of Matt Blomfield and revealing the real story about what has been going on inside Hell Pizza.

Oh and here is another photo from Dunedin:

UPDATE: I had a call from the current franchisee about these photos. She wanted to assure me that it has taken a long time to turn around the legacy of Shaun Browne. The store was a mess when they took over and hard graft and has managed to turn it around. They are very annoyed that poor franchisees like Shaun Browne, Matt Blomfield “Weeman” and Benji and Natasha are damaging the hard work that many other franchisees have and are putting into their stores.

I was thanked for my expose into these poor franchisees and the activities of Matt Blomfield.

ᔥ Time.com

The media seems to love using the word shocked or outraged.

Republicans are — forgive the cliché — shocked, shocked to discover that a presidential contender is “politicizing” an important national event. In this sense, “politicizing” might be best translated as “beating us up and we don’t have anything much to say to stop it.” The ad itself raises intriguing, substantive, legitimate questions — and the ferocious, sputtering Republican reaction is proof positive that they know it, or at least suspect it.

ᔥ Sydney Morning Herald

A fascinating article about the media and their race to the bottom. The Herald seems to be leading the way in New Zealand.

There is a fascinating section in the Finkelstein report giving chapter and verse on the pitiful failure of media self-regulation. One example is Britain’s Press Complaints Commission, which has collapsed under the weight of its own blindness. This was the body that gave the News of the World and News International a clean bill of health on phone hacking.

The PCC has been the subject of at least eight inquiries and on several occasions there were proposals to add real teeth, but each time the press barons and editors persuaded the authorities to give them one more chance. Now it has cracked completely, waiting for whatever Lord Justice Leveson suggests should replace it.

Tonight the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance hosts the annual press freedom dinner – a worthy occasion to bring to the fore many of the threats to reporters and reporting.

What should not be forgotten is that the media here is not free of certain dark arts. Significant bits of Australian journalism have been drinking at the last-chance saloon well beyond closing time.

The self-regulated, industry-funded regime for newspapers and the partially self-regulated system for broadcasters have failed to deliver a decently accountable standard for a free media.

Related Story: Why people don’t trust the media

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Rachel at Throng is gobsmacked by the use of the word “talent” to describe witnesses. To be frank I am too…it just goes to show that both channels see the news as entertainment akin to New Zealand’s Next Top Crim.

Did you know that people interviewed on ONE News and 3 News are now referred to as “talent” by reporters?  We were surprised and uncomfortable to hear it being used in this context.

When Kate Lynch and Amanda Gillies clarified their recent stories to Throng, both used the curious word:

@nztv Thanks for your feedback. I discussed with the talent exactly what she was comfortable with us showing and complied with her wishes

January 23, 2012 7:34 am via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite

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Kate Lynch

@nztv I asked my talent what he was happy with, he only wanted his face blurred. He was happy with coverage.

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Amanda Gillies

Proof positive that the talking heads are actually living in lala land.

This is the front page of the Herald website:

And this is Stuff: