Posts by Yamis
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This is good from John Dyvbig.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4616937a2201.html
...And to show just how ludicious this quest for the "truth" can get a TVNZ reporter announced on the 6pm bulletin that she had put forth a list of questions to her immediate bosses and received no replies. And these are the very same people who spend millions every year advertising that they are the best when it comes to delivering the "news". Well what a bloody waste of money they are if they couldn't even deliver on the hottest story of the week, which literally bit them on their own ass.
The reporter got no further with Tony's radio employer. It seems nobody is covering themselves in glory over this fisaco.
It always astounds me how quickly the media circles the wagons, bunkers down and says nothing when something happens to one of its frontline soldiers. And yet when any member of the public steps off the primrose path these same buzzards continually circle the corpse until there's nothing left to pick off.
It pays to remember that the media reserves its biggest lies for when it's talking about itself...
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Good on you ladies.
Hopefully the NZRU bans them for 5 years from all rugby matches like the bloke who racially abused Petero Civinoceva at Parramatta Stadium last weekend.
Although I don't suppose it will play out like that.
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You know, Veitch could walk into a police station and make a statement, then let justice take its course.
If he did that, then I'd have no objection to his reemployment in the media or any other trade on his release (or indeed acquittal). Because then he'd have done his time (assuming he was convicted) and would be entitled to rehabilitation.
That's where I'm at with this. He should have gone to the police, owned up and seen where it went from there. He didn't and he tried to hide it and now it smacks of him trying to save face and money by keeping his job. According to the DomPost he has mortgage payments of 20,000 a month and any sudden loss of earning (shedloads) looks likely to stuff his career, his lifestyle and his ego.
Land transfer records show a property in the waterfront suburb of Mission Bay that he bought for $460,000 in September 2004, later transferring to his company, Ynot Property Investments, was sold in early 2006, around the time of the assault, for $525,000 a $65,000 profit.
Veitch is mortgaged to the hilt on his other properties the house in Kohimarama where the assault took place and the home in Herne Bay where he now lives with his wife, Zoe Halford.
Mortgage documents show the ANZ bank has loaned $4.5 million against the two properties, although it is not clear if the money has been advanced for other projects as well. Veitch's mortgage payments are said to be as high as $20,000 a month.
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I get your point Ian, but at the end of the day Tony Veitch is STILL fucking this up because he has fucked it up for 2 and a half years and his latest efforts appear a continuation of this theme.
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Unfortunately there is a very strong chance that we will only get one side of the story here which you can already see pretty big holes in but there's no concrete to fill them in with.
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We'll all be feeling a lot better after this.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10521318
I'm sure you're all rushing out to get the full version in the HoS as well.
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If it's any consolation robbery I've also understood what you were getting at. This is an internet forum not a published thesis, so part of the skill (if there is any) is allowing for peoples personal writing style to extract their main point(s). Not something which has happened smoothly here (and that's part of the fun I guess).
Right, I'm going to be late to watch the blood (and beer) being spilt, gotta fly...
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A link to it.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4616532a10.htmlSurely they realise that any kind of incident like this escaping into the public would have major repercussions for his continuation in his role(s).
And if it happened in 2006 then how come the story implies that he only got the counselling and paid the 'compensation' sometime this year?
Veitch is smelling worse and worse.
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And so now we hear that both TVNZ and Radio Sport did have "some" prior knowledge of this from sometime around last December when he confided in them.
What I find absolutely crazy is that they did not appear to ask him to elaborate at all. It seems as though it was along the lines of: I had a bit of a fracas with the missus and paid her some money, no worries mate, it's a private matter.
That's pretty horrific mismanagement I'd suggest.
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Makes it all the more compelling aye Sacha ;)
I'll be off to my parents house to watch. Peeking on the Warriors who are on at the same time as well.
I don't know if we are any better or worse in terms of the violence and glorifying it on the sports field. In fact I take that back. There is certainly LESS of it in sport. Fans are frequently lamenting the fact that league and rugby in particular have become so clean. My father went to a senior league game recently and couldn't believe how clean it has become. When he was playing the game was constant filth, his nose was broken numerous times, forearms, stiff arms, car windscreens smashed after games.... I can find clips on youtube of games played in the 50s and 60s where they moved from one fight to the next. Some of the most vicious in history happened decades ago.
It seems as if it's the reporting and talk of games that may have become more inflammatory because there's sod all taking place on the field.
Remember rucking has been outlawed, State of Origin rarely now has a punch thrown, all in brawls seem a thing of the past. Even the AB v SA incident in the first test involved nothing more than a pushing match.
Something I tend to lament and celebrate depending what mood I'm in.
Peace out.