Sunday

Chris Cook works for Sunday at TVNZ. He is working on a couple of stories and is trying desperately to scratch up some poor hard done by people for some stories.

I thought I’d help him manufacture his stories…especially the poor people who just can;t quite ever make it to get the deposit on their house…no doubt they will get someone all tearful to well up on camera.

Here is his email…if anyone can help him let him know.

ᔥ Brian Edwards Media

Brian Edwards writes about the problems associated with Fair Go…he would know he pretty much invented the show. In his treatise he explains just how bad it is for someone who is the target of Fair Go.

He gives this warning at the end though:

Recently we have had to say to several people who sought our advice on how to deal with a Fair Go complaint that there was really no approach that could guarantee them a successful outcome. The vigilante mentality of reporters who saw themselves as society’s avenging angels meant that they had already been presumed guilty and nothing they could say or do was going to change that presumption.

This is a programme out of control. Maybe it was always out of control. Maybe it’s time to recognise that and call a halt. Yes, some ratbags will get away with murder, but some fundamentally decent people will not be vilified and their reputations destroyed. Maybe that’s a fair trade.

This most certainly applied to the Sunday programme, where John Hudson pursued a story irrespective of the facts with the pre-supposed idea that Hell and in particular Warren Powell and the other directors were bad bastards. They did no research into the backgrounds of those they featured and ignored evidence when it was offered to them by independent third parties.