I've done summer radio for a couple of ... summers, I like it very much. It's a great opportunity to provoke and entertain at the same time and maybe even slip some ideology :-)
John Keys tried his hand, or rather, mouth, at radio this afternoon. Even the reports by his adoring blogging fans are 'reserved' - I suspect he was lame (didn't listen, too busy digging). This comment from The Dim-Post probably sums up the talk-back hour best. I'll link to the blog, in-case someone wants to follow up.
"Just days after a New Zealand SAS soldier was killed in Afghanistan and as Standard & Poor’s joined fellow ratings agency Fitch in downgrading the New Zealand economy, Key is hosting an hour-long show on Radio Live.
A news bulletin during the show reported the second economic downgrade, but Key had not mentioned it by almost halfway through his show."
4 comments:
So, you like radio... I very rarely listen to Jim Mora's Panel, but would make an exception if you or some other conservation-minded person were invited on. The lack of green-with-a-small-g voices is a crime.
Do you think you could cope with Jim's inanities, not to mention those of the likes of Stephen Franks and Graeme Bell?
Yep, I like inanities because they offer the opportunity to flay the deliverer of them with their own silliness. I've done some interviews on lignite, dairying etc, on a Chch radio station and they are on-line. I'll try to locate and link to them, southernrata, if you've got a yearnin' to listen to them. There quite provocative (but no inanities!)
Hi Robert I presume you know about this
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1989/0025/latest/DLM158150.html
Sort of explains the non political broadcast and I image if the PM had broken the rules I would have been able to hear you and your fellow travellers uproar without the benifit of a radio
Thanks Ray - yep, I know, he was constrained and couldn't talk politics.
I say, that was lucky for him, given today's double downgrading by the credit agencies.
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