By way of background, I may have called Ms Coddington "the most bizarre woman in Auckland" 11 years ago, but I'm damned if I can find it, either online or on my hard drive.

I did however, find my mention of the 1997 Metro column in which she claimed?

Coddington's column in the Hos is an entertaining exercise in doublethink and raises some fascinating questions about her character and mental state.

I don't know what to think of her rant against journalists who have technically broken the embargo on the story by discussing it,?

But?

I don't know if it's current but according to the NZPC's own website the current membership is:

NEW ZEALAND PRESS COUNCIL OFFICERS

Barry Paterson CNZM, OBE, QC Independent Chairman, Retired High Court Judge, Auckland
Mary Major Secretary

Representing the public:
Ruth Buddicom Barrister, Christchurch
Denis McLean Retired diplomat, Wellington?

Press Council members considering this complaint were Barry Paterson (Chairman), Aroha Beck, Ruth Buddicom, Kate Coughlan, John Gardner, Penny Harding, Keith Lees, Denis McLean, and Lynn Scott.

So neither Alan Samson (who's a particularly accomplished reporter, especially on science topics) or Terry Snow, a former Listener editor,?

Well done, Tze, Charles, Keith et al. Coddington has been well and truely walloped – 'Coddingtonwallop', if you will..

But at the risk of shagging a hobby horse, I do hope Samson is taking that expertise into the classroom – drumming the phrase 'correlation does not imply causation' into?

I look forward to her next book on the rising tide of Asian pedophiles who are here to bludge on our welfare system while importing P and?

Impressive work!

Finally: for Deborah Coddington:

Zen is not to be feared

In a strange echo of Keith?

"Two paragraphs further on, I point out using national apprehension figures from 1996 to 2005 the total offences committed by Asiatics aged 17 to 50 has risen by 53 per cent."

point to some ingrained, racist thinking. "Asiatics" isn't a?

Seriously, does anyone else think Coddington and North and South might have been saved considerable damage if, well, the story had been through a significantly more rigorous editorial and fact-checking process? Like, by someone who could have seen the thesis was not supported by the evidence?

Absolutely. I think it?

I have some sympathy for Coddington's 'Robyn made me do it' defense.

I'm surprised (at your sympathy). A similar defense seems to have been used for other stuff ups she has made in the past. When will she have the courage?

Welcome to New Zealand, the new home of Asian drug runners, illegal suburban brothels, health cheats, student P pushers, business crooks and paua smugglers.

__[Asians]?

In time it may well be joined by an equally tatty?

Re Coddington in the HoS: __A good friend, journalist David Cohen, tells me we share the privilege of tucking ourselves into bed at nights to read our Press Council?

I note he now calls me "Coddingtonswallop" on his website.

Not wanting to toot my own horn, but that was my entry in the word of the year competition.

HONK HONK!!

Don:

What do 'political convictions' have to do with it? At the risk of getting a wee bit circle jerky, here's a textbook example of owning up.?

The one thing that I'm most curious about is this: given her continued vehement defense of her article, does she still believe that the article's intent is accurate? That the gathering asian crime tide is still ominous enough to warrant sending them back?

What if Tze Ming lost? God knows laws don't equal justice. Celebrate for sure and deservedly so but I'm lost a little on the meaning of and any ramifications from this ruling. Certainly Debs isn?t taking anything from it.

Furthermore we have a failed Act politician?

I find this heartening for three reasons – that she was called out by a group of people who kept at it until they got a hearing, that she was ruled against officially, which shows that the system?

That is just... awesome. No wonder all those waves just keep piling up all over the place. I must add "crime tide" to my lexicon?

Great result. Now Debs can focus on the true enemy, the Masons.

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
Asians do! Asians do!
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Asians do! Asians do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4091490a6160.html

I am Deborah Coddington ? mad Deborah Coddington,
Though I could never tell why,
I hate every Asian who enters this nation,
Bigoted Coddington I!

I always have time to expose Asian crime,
Journalising the pure anecdotal;
Tuberculoses, addictions?

We're seeing far too much of Franks in an election year ... is this the start of a(nother) right wing economic party whos point of difference is being anti-asian?

He is wrong in suggesting that DC has had her freedom to speak, and even twist the truth removed. She hadn't. She still is peddling the?

I don't suppose statements to the Press Council have to be in sworn affadavits? Otherwise she could wind up getting the same treatment as Jeffrey Archer?

I wish Japan (where I spend a fair bit of time) had a Press Council. Their media is a disgrace with regard to foreigners. Mainly Chinese, as it happens. We should send the Asia-New Zealand Foundation over there...

With all due disrespect, Chuckie, I don't think Japan is a part?

All that is happening is that the publication will to publish the Press Council decision. Does Franks not understand this?

He's either lying or more stupid than I thought. I'm on this tomorrow, for sure.

I prefer to think that, in a country as small as New Zealand, vocal ratbags can always retain a following in their own right.

Tze Ming: ...we also discovered during the complaints process that Coddington cannot spell 'xenophobia'.

"Please explain?"

If Ms Coddington had written an article called "Polynesian Peril", she wouldn't just be taken to the Press Council – she'd either be doing a Salman Rushdie, or?

Franks has gone into bat for Debs on Nat Radio this evening.

Here's what I find bizarre about their position: Franks, Coddington et al were MPs for ACT, the liberal party, the party that wants to fight for personal freedom and keep the evil power of the state out of?

Does it strike anyone else as weird that these staunch defenders of indivuality and personal freedom have picked racial profiling and forced deportation as free speech issues worth taking a stand on?

Well, to be fair, Franks also went mightily into bat for homophobes. And he even spoke at the?

The New Anti-PC Problem

That's a bloody good diea – though they should be in line behind everyone who voted for the respectable?

Here's what I find bizarre about their position: Franks, Coddington et al were MPs for ACT, the liberal party, the party that wants to fight for personal freedom and keep the evil power of the state out of people's lives.

Oh, and the party of personal responsibility. Except, apparently, for?

Good work Tze Ming, Keith and Charles (I know you're out there somewhere bro ...)

Oh, and the party of personal responsibility. Except, apparently, for Debs who is a victim, not of her own incompetence as an journalist and statistician, but of a grand, shadowy conspiracy.

And besides, an older boy made her do it.

"The end of the war brought a sudden change of circumstances for the whaling companies with the removal of their former political/military allies. What at first looked like the end of whaling was?

"The end of the war brought a sudden change of circumstances for the whaling companies with the removal of their former political/military allies. What at first looked like the end of whaling was?

Well, fair enough as far as?

As for this suggestion of dumping the xenophobes in Tokyo or Hong Kong for a week: Nah. Too easy. I recommend Shanxi. Ms Coddington should be given a job in a coal mine out that way. That'll learn her real fast.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070612zg.html

The JT also gives voice to the protest against a vile publication wholly focused?

Can i just say...

Tze Ming Clan aitn nuttin ta fcuk wit!!!!!

Maximum respect.

Oh, you aint got one

SUCKA!

congrats to tze ming and keith.

about time that hack got a come-uppance.

It's one battle won and marginal 0n a global scale (not making it any less important though). I don't think the links I posted are that "dull." In fact, I think they both pose different perspectives on bigotry in media. Sure, it it's all about sticking it to well-known?

well, a very belated congrats to tze ming et al. keep making waves guys!

Craig: I noted your subtle inclusion of economic nationalism in the same breath as jingoism and immigrant-bashing. One can very much be economic nationalist and an inclusive multiculturalist.

*giggle* I didn't think I was being subtle at all, but if you cab pull of that magic trick please tell the?

Congrats to all involved.

North & South magazine editor Robyn Langwell has been forced out of the job she has held for 22 years.

A source close to Langwell has confirmed the editor is to step down from the role, with June 23 set to be her final day on the job.

Rumours of her?

But it's not us, it's just restructuring... right? But that's what it says...

I mean, editors have such a redundant role (in some magazines), they're always the first ones to go.

And you have your scalp:
North & South editor Langwell resigns

Congrats to all involved.

It's not so classy to gloat. I can imagine she's feeling pretty sad being pushed out after more than two decades. North & South was never my favourite magazine, and the Asian Angst episode has been a?

I agree with Russell. My schadenfreude has run out by now, personally. I hear it was on the cards for a long time – but it's possible that the?

And they have run some good features over the years.

I'd certainly take North and South of 10 – 15 years ago over Listener now. My main beef with them back then was that for a Magazine that was supposed to be nationwide – a counterpoint to Metro, if you?

It's not so classy to gloat.

Certainly not, Russell, and dare I say it there are some sections of the MSM (and bloggers, come to that) who don't have any moral high ground to posture on where Langwell or North and South is concerned. The Herald – and its Sunday?

The Herald – and its Sunday tabloid – might want to be the first in line for some quiet self-reflection

"Labour endorses child molesting!" for example.

There's very little in the way of untrammelled malevolence I wouldn't lay at the feet of Hullum Klark and the Liarbore Dykeocracy (and that's sarcasm folks, please don't bust a blood vessel), but really...

In a sane would I'd automatically assume you're (crudely) taking?