Radio Live

Yesterday I posted that Duncan Garner had jumped the shark when he wanted everyone to come listen to the Chicken Man singing a song.

But I was wrong.

Today he managed to sink even lower.

Can someone please take pity on him and give him a call?   I think someone should tell him that Marriage Equality is done and dusted.

Drive time radio should be bringing you the news.  Not dragging the Family First attack lines back from the dead.

Jumping the shark and flogging a dead horse.

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Radio Live is slowly spiraling towards a self inflicted death.  They are getting stale and are bleeding talent.

Duncan Garner was to be the Great Hope in taking on the king of the drive-time slot, ZB’s Larry Williams.

I bet Garner gets home and takes two showers while he cries to himself for leaving his last job.

Duncan Garner put a few decent questions to Labour Leader David Shearer on his secret offshore bank account on his RadioLive Drive show last night.
David , um, Shearer was at his eloquent best.

Doesn’t know why he hasn’t put his money where his mouth is and invested in New Zealand, doesn’t remember how he was able to fill out tax returns every year and forget the register of pecuniary interests, unable to respond to Garner’s speculation about it being more than $100K.  Read more »

It wasn’t just a few bloggers and a few tweets that got yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on water rights totally wrong.

RadioLive broke into their programme with a newsflash and host Duncan Garner started to opine about how he agreed with the decision.

But then of course, came the correction.  Oops.

Not a great day at the office for decent journalists trained and skilled.

I actually feel sorry for Duncan on this, he was fed a bum steer by the newsroom and other journalists who couldn’t wait to blurt their undisguised glee across Twitter and the air-waves.

UPDATE: Mediaworks has now blocked the Youtube clip. To be fair to RadioLive the audio is still here: http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Audio.aspx

Split across the “Wednesday” 1500-1515 segment.  The newsflash comes at 11 minutes 35  into this stream.

The reason RadioLive has blocked the Youtube video is because they don’t archive this stuff – and would prefer no one heard it.

Here is the audio anyway.

Trying to find a spot to park before my Radio Live gig, I notice this.

I am on Radio live with Willie, JT and Matt McCarten today at 1400.

Replacing Corporate Whore Matthew Hooton.

Tune in, or better yet call in.

I am on Radio Live from 2-3pm on Willie and JT’s show.

Tune in.

In TRUTH‘s January 3 issue I wrote about the outrage of the failure of Police (full article online) to even investigate electoral law breaches.

Police are sitting on more than twenty open investigations referred to them for prosecution under the Electoral Act by the Electoral Commission.

Truth has obtained details under the Official Information Act that reveal Police seem to have no interest in prosecuting offences and breaches of the Electoral Act.

Of the 32 cases referred, 6 have lapsed because the prosecution time limit has expired.

62 dual vote referrals remain open and un-prosecuted.

Headline cases referred by the Electoral Commission that remain open with little or no progress are the Green party worker Jolyon White’s alleged vandalism of National’s signs at the 2011 election, several of Labour’s flyers including their ‘Stop Asset Sales’, ‘Prices are Rising faster than wages’ and ‘Ohariu Census’ pamphlets.

Only 3 cases have been closed, with no action or prosecution resulting.

Now Radio Live and Radio New Zealand are reporting the story like they actually went to the bother of using the OIA to obtain the figures and details.  Read more »

Radio Live have just tweeted:

BREAKING: The High Court rules in favour of the Crown over water rights/asset sales case taken by the Maori Council

— RadioLIVE Newsroom (@LIVENewsDesk) December 11, 2012

Good stuff.

Tony Ryall and Bill English have said in their Press Release:

Finance Minister Bill English and State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall today welcomed the High Court decision in favour of the Crown following last month’s High Court action regarding the sale of shares in Mighty River Power.

“The High Court decision confirms the Government can proceed to sell up to 49 per cent of shares in four state owned energy companies, in accordance with the legislation passed by Parliament earlier this year,” Mr English says.

“The Government is firmly of the view that the partial sale of shares does not in any way affect the Crown’s ability to recognise rights and interests in water, or to provide redress for genuine Treaty claims.”

UPDATE:

The Maori Council says it is now working on an appeal.

— Jessica Mutch TVNZ (@MutchJessica) December 11, 2012

Deep pockets. For the lawyer troughers.

John Tamihere continues to make friends in Labour…here are his thoughts from this afternoon on Radio Live about their housing policy: