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  • Hard News: Just some links, really,

    on global warming.

    the abc apparently got muscled into airing the great global warming swindle, despite it being widely panned.

    some liberal party culture-warriors on the board, apparently.

    It gets worse ...

    Inside the broadcaster there are also reports of tension between Tony Jones, who usually hosts Lateline, and the head of factual entertainment, Denise Eriksen, over his reportedly tough questioning of Durkin when he travelled to England last week.

    According to the independent news website Crikey, Eriksen also travelled to London and, without Jones' knowledge, apologised to Durkin for the "rough treatment".

    "Edit suites have been resounding all week to screams of outrage from Eriksen demanding that tough responses be cut out. Jones has more than once needed to make clear he will 'walk' rather than agree to a sanitised show," an "ABC insider" reportedly told Crikey.

    "Eriksen has even gone as far as demanding a written rundown from Jones as to how he intends to conduct the live to air discussion after the Swindle film airs. He has refused to comply. The stand-off may lead to a sudden change of presenter on Thursday night, so stay tuned."

    What a bloody disgrace. Not only are they airing a seriously compromised programme to curry favour with the government, they're not letting their own interviewer ask proper questions of the producer.

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  • Hard News: Bad journalism, old stories,

    Nice to se this is linked from the Times Online homepage.

    Indeed. But the Times has long been pretty good on this. It was where Brian Deer started investigating Wakefield et al in the first place.

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  • Reduction Agents 'Waiting for Your Love',

    From the new Lil Chief Records YouTube channel.

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  • 180 Seconds with Craig Ranapia: Foreign…,

    Craig finds the Herald relying on anecdote for its story on an alleged backlash against foreign doctors after the foiled bombings in Britain.

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  • Southerly: A Slow Journey and a Quick Arrival,

    And hooray for the nice man from Vodaphone!

    Paul would be a nice man wherever he worked ...

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  • Radiation: Running with scissors,

    er ... sounds like it's the DomPost not TVNZ who should be embarrassed.

    Yes. Their TV highlights stuff usually reads like a cut and paste job, just not *quite* this obviously.

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  • Hard News: Transmogrithingy,

    you might want to read this interesting article.

    Thanks Che - that Crikey piece is extraordinary. Anyone inclined to give Howard the benefit of the doubt should be sat down and forced to read it.

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  • Radiation: Running with scissors,

    We're getting special features on TV now, cool!

    Wow. That's really very embarrassing.

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  • Stapp and Heath on 20:20,

    The Back of the Y boys are profiled on 20:20 but don't get their tits out. From the new TVNZ YouTube channel.

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  • PA Radio: TVNZ's Jason Paris on going…,

    Russell Brown talks to TVNZ's head of emerging business Jason Paris about the broadcaster's launch of its own YouTube channel, and what comes next.

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