Posts by Russell Brown
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Actually the information about Idour was only pinned down conclusively yesterday. As for the line that Idour's been going around peddling his story to the media, as far as I know, that hasn't happened (though it's entirely possible).
King was pretty specific about what she alleged - that Idour had been shopping the story around and been turned down by several publications, but the Herald on Sunday ran with it.
Presumably, there are people who could confirm or deny that story, and they will include Fairfax and APN editors.
I guess there'll be more on 3 News tonight - they're saying they've been contacted with information by both sides.
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I wonder if anyone's spoken to ex-Otago coach, ex-cop and ex-All Black selector Gordon Hunter about the incident?
That would be a bit tricky, what with him being dead and all.
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Simple:
One - protect your sources.
Two - have only used him since September.But Wishart says he's been working on this story for two years (it appears, indeed, to be the same story that Idour blathered about the the press last year). And even if he's protecting his source, I'm not sure that justifies leading a press release with an emphatic statement that Idour had never been a source. You don't do that: you just shut up.
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Anyway: where I stand now is that the greater part of Wishart's story has been seriously damaged by what has been revealed in the past day: his sources are deeply problematic and the allegation of a government "cover up" that justified using Michael Cullen's picture all over the cover of the magazine is patently absurd.
That said, I wouldn't rule out something embarrassing or even damaging to the Dunedin police emerging from the PCA investigation announced today. We'll see.
For now, it would be nice to hear someone in the MSM ask Wishart whether Idour was a source and, if so, how that squares with his statement in September last year emphatically denying he had ever used Idour as a source.
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The most recent audited circulation for Investigate is 8212 and its readership (ie: anyone who sees a copy in a month) is 68,000 - so it has quite a high pass-on rate. My guess is that its notoriety helps greatly with the readership number (ie: high name-recognition), less so with actual sales.
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Yeah but RB, didn't you use to do that Friday morning slot on B..."Good morning mediafiles... and all the way to...Righto! basically without a script?
Hell no!
It was always scripted - I'd get up at 5.45am, write the bugger, hare in and deliver it, and then proceed to work. Except for the season when I was the Friday comment on Breakfast, when I had to get up at 4.45am.
But it was "Mediaphiles" and I'd always end with "G'bye!".
"Righto!" was Dad's line.
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Hum... Perhaps, until some more solid evidence comes along - or Annette King decides to disclose her source for the allegations - we owe Idour the same benefit of the doubt extended to Howard Broad?
She did. It was one of the (named) cops who came forward yesterday to support Broad's version of events.
Wishart hasn't named his source, but if it was Idour, I think there's a credibility problem.
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Serious question - how many times have people threatened to sue you, and how many writs from Messers Run, Grabbit and Sue eventurally landed in the letterbox?
No, I don't think he will, but his willingness to publicly muse about it (and not for the first time towards me) when criticised is distasteful and unjournalistic.
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Sometimes it's best to de-latch from these people, they are oxygen thieves, starve them of it, and of course without any response, where would they be?
That's my feeling. And I think my tolerance for having d4j post here is now exhausted. For further information, click here and do a find for "armed offenders".
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Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Wishart has also made a post on Kiwiblog in which he twice threatens to sue me for commenting on a previous Investigate story whose deficiencies he still seems unable to properly acknowledge.
He's not a very nice man, is he?
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