Shayne Currie

Shayne Currie and all the other “decent journalists, trained and skilled” at the NZ Herald are all cock-a-hoop that they won their fair share in the media duopoly awards on Friday night.

Even David Fisher, Kim Dotcom’s PR go to guy, got an award. Just goes to show just how far NZ journalism has sunk when an “embedded journalist” gets an award for re-writing what a lawyer has released as news.

But on the day that they are skiting to all their readers they visit this travesty upon us all

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The NZ Herald has run a story by-lined by John Hall about a supposed Vietnam Veteran found after 44 years of being missing in action presumed dead.

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A United States Army veteran has been found living in a remote Vietnamese village 44 years after his plane was shot down and he was presumed dead.

Unclaimed, a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Michael Jorgenson, claims that a frail, elderly man, found in a remote south Vietnam village unable to remember the English language, his date of birth or even the names of his wife and two children, may be Sergeant John Hartley Robertson – a former Green Beret shot down in 1968.

Robertson was working on a special operation over Laos when his helicopter was downed.

Despite his body never being found, he was presumed dead for nearly half a century.

Vietnam veteran Tom Faunce says he was on a humanitarian mission in Southeast Asia in 2008 when he was told of the existence of an “army brother” who had been shot down 40 years earlier, listed as “deceased in action” and forgotten about by the US Government.

Faunce teamed up with Jorgenson to track the mystery man down and find definitive evidence that either proved he was Robertson, or out him as a hoaxer.

The Herald story gives the reader the idea that this is indeed the missing man.  Read more »

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If there’s one thing coming through about the Herald’s pandering to Witchy Wendyl it’s that she’s not as well liked as the editor would like to think she is.

If these pics are anything to go by, Shayne’s clearly a smooth operator with the ladies, so it’s no wonder Witchy Wendyl is all gushy over him in one of her books.

Is that the reason he allows her a weekly column rant to be published containing mistakes and half-truths attacking other manufacturers’ products?  Read more »

Some may ask why the Lamington Files. Quite simple really, Witchy Wendyl’s attack on the South Island “Joy Boys” (Southerners’ name for pink lamingtons) is the tip of the iceberg in terms of failure of the NZ Herald to live up to its own standards of being “decent journalists, trained and skilled”.

The Herald’s editor Shayne Currie must be very close to Witchy Wendyl to allow, each week, a column rant to be published containing mistakes and half-truths. But then again he is known for allowing his repeaters to write what Janet Wilson called “Currie-ising” stories.  Read more »

Here’s a chart showing the NZ Herald’s share performance

And here is an article they published November 2011   Read more »

Easily mistake I guess. ACC or IRD, I can see how they could easily be confused.

I feel sorry for Adam Bennett, he actually is “a decent journalist, trained and skilled“, pity about the sub-editors though.

“Decent journalists, trained and skilled” have made sure the image matches the story

The Herald has a major problem, they seem unwilling to do anything to address it. Their claims of being a newspaper of record are diminishing by the day. The former glory days are sadly long since past.  Read more »

From the Herald of course, where they employ “decent journalists, trained and skilled”:

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Whoever did the line that there were “orchards” on Sir Paul Holmes’ coffin had better brush up their CV…

Just as well they have “decent journalists, trained and skilled“…they must have been on holiday otherwise they’d know they really meant “orchids“.  Read more »

I copped a lot of flack yesterday because for some reason you should stop what you normally do when a psychopathic, dysfunctional twat goes on rampage and cry a river of tears for people you don’t know.

Now don’t get me wrong, it is terrible what has gone on in China and in the US, but really having a journalist/biographer tweet abuse at you like sanctimonious cocks when their own paper is plastering the news all over their front page is just a bit beyond the pale.

Perhaps he should watch this video from Charlie Booker then march in to see Shayne Currie and educate him.

From a few years ago, Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe takes on the media’s reaction to mass killings, similar to what Roger Ebert was getting at.