Hard News: The Wall and the Paper
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Mr Lhaws' philosophy: If a square peg won't fit in a round hole, get a bigger hammer. Rinse and repeat.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
I want a T-shirt that says "PC-wet".
I liked this
Mr Brown calls Mr Laws' comments "extremely unpleasant".
Were those really the first words that came to mind?
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Sacha, in reply to
3 News website story by Dan Satherly.
Nice work. Now they just need to speed up the comment moderation..
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Now they just need to speed up the comment moderation..
They need to speed up the LHaws moderation.
Would someone please take his platform away? He is doing no one anything but harm. Including himself. If it wasn't so blindingly obvious, for anyone who can read, how stressful this must be for Arie, his family and now Marilynn McLachlan and hers, it would almost be funny.
He is self-destructing. I predict YouTube clips any moment.
As Sacha points out, there are standards, both in broadcasting and in human decency. Who is going to uphold them?
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recordari, in reply to
I want a T-shirt that says “PC-wet”.
Ok, apologies for flippancy, but would that be a ‘PC-wet T-shirt’ competition?
Alternatively know as a ‘dry T-shirt’ competition.
<droll>
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nzlemming, in reply to
I want a T-shirt that says “PC-wet”.
Water and computers don't mix.
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Was a lag for a while - common with batch moderating (just annoying when yours is one of em). Great blunt comment there by Paul Williams (17 Mar 2011 6:08pm):
Michael, you might want to reflect on whether or not you, a person forced to resign from parliament because of your deceit, should call others out for truthfulness?
What is tragic about this situation is that you have nothing other than a track record of stupidity and double-standards.
I once wondered if you were redeemable, around the time of Cam Campion's death; I wonder no more.
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Makes more sense down here.
ETA
Now they just need to speed up the comment moderation..
No, you’re right they really do. When people start name calling back, it will only serve to drive more traffic to his ego, with more unfortunate collateral damage.
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Haha. David Kemsey couldn't wait to get out of there. Good show, Russ.
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So if Steve Braunias lost his contract because he wrote a rude email to a reader, and now Laws has written an even ruder and more offensive email to another reader, doesn't that automatically mean that the company (since it seems to be higher than the editor) will terminate him? Should I email the editor to check?
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Islander, in reply to
Tautoko Hilary - add that they will lose 3 subscribers from the Coast. And we could spread this further.
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The show is here on demand, for those of you who didn't catch the broadcast.
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Islander, in reply to
O coool!
I didnt realise I could pick it up from here!
Thank you.
And the SST editor has loong skid marks in his recollections- I will similarly & pubically renounce any buying from anything that is
a)associated with Michael Lhaws, and,
b)the SST
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A very good point, Hilary. Call me stupid but I thought being an editor of a newspaper means having responsibility for all that goes in it.
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Carol Stewart, in reply to
I will similarly & pubically renounce
Sounds messy :-)
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Islander, in reply to
Argh!
(Would be if I could remember where my pubes were)
PUBLICALLY
for other people than dense geoffs who might be confused- -
So if Steve Braunias lost his contract because he wrote a rude email to a reader, and now Laws has written an even ruder and more offensive email to another reader, doesn’t that automatically mean that the company (since it seems to be higher than the editor) will terminate him? Should I email the editor to check?
My impression from the interview is that the decision to fire Laws would be well above Kemeys' pay grade.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
My impression from the interview is that the decision to fire Laws would be well above Kemeys' pay grade.
Most things seem to happen when he's out of the office anyway.
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So who is the deputy editor who actually does select and edit pieces for the op ed section?
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So who is the deputy editor who actually does select and edit pieces for the op ed section?
I don't think there's any selection regarding Laws. They publish what he gives them, because they're afraid of upsetting him and his radio audience if they don't.
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nzlemming, in reply to
The show is here on demand, for those of you who didn’t catch the broadcast
Thanks for that, good interview - your barely restrained fury was delightful to watch and certainly discomforted Kemeys. Good call on his blame-shifting.
And I echo Hilary - if Braunias was acting as an agent of and therefore representing the SST when he wrote that email, how much more and agent and representative is Lhaws when actually writing in the published paper?
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
being an editor of a newspaper means having responsibility for all that goes in it.
He looked like most of the senior administrators I've come across - all too happy to take the title and pay package but completely unwilling to either do the actual job properly or take the responsibility that goes along with the title.
"Being on holiday" is not an excuse unless he suspends his pay when he's on holiday - even then it's not an excuse if you have a spine.
I don't really mind senior management getting paid well to take responsibility but that means they F'ing well have to take it when shit hits the fan. That includes being the person who gets fired sometimes.
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
they’re afraid of upsetting him and his radio audience if they don’t.
This is the problem, isn’t it? Laws has a constituency.
We don’t have enough national-scale papers in this country and they can’t differentiate into different niches – there’s no Daily Mail or Daily Star for low brow right wing nut jobs – so the SST graciously recognises its inclusive role and gives space for them too.
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Who ever thought we'd be bemoaning the fall of Truth ...
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Russell Brown, in reply to
“Being on holiday” is not an excuse unless he suspends his pay when he’s on holiday – even then it’s not an excuse if you have a spine.
Either he took part in the decision to send the nastygram to Edwards, or he wasn't even consulted. Neither option reflects particularly well.
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