Guest Post – Doug Sellman and his delight in finding more things to stop!
by Frances Denz
I am really fussy about the use of words and the effects they have on the subconscious. And of course people like Sellman are experts at using strings of words to have the greatest effect on their messages – and include downright lies. And when one lie is included with some truths it is usually taken as a truth.
He does this with the following statement
Fast food outlets facilitate overeating through convenience, low price and provision of energy-dense moreish food, and therefore are an important factor in the New Zealand population eating too much.
Which is the lie in here? Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.