NewstalkZB, Tuesday, June 14, 2011
At 7.15 this morning, NewstalkZB breakfast host Mike Hosking interviewed Garth Galloway, the proud Canterbury man who has organised The Pledge, whereby Canterbury people publicly commit themselves to staying in Canterbury despite the earthquakes.
Galloway is bursting with Canterbury pride, and he is very angry about the ignorant, negative, sensationalist comments by some non- Cantabrians in the media. Two commentators in particular have irked Galloway...
"I heard Tony Veitch saying before the news that he 'could hear the fear in Jo Scott's voice'. Now I've heard Jo Scott talking on radio for many months, and she did not sound at all different this morning. Veitch's comment was ludicrous. And last night on Television One's Close-Up programme, Mark Sainsbury said to Bob Parker, 'People are going to leave.' If Bob Parker had had his wits about him, he would have challenged that statement."
A bit later, in the 7.30 News, this is what Niva Retimanu read out as the lead item: "Canterbury Pledge organiser Garth Galloway has played down media reports of local reactions to yesterdays quakes."
So a no-nonsense refutation of two substandard journalists was spun (or distorted) into the misleading phrase "played down".
Then there is, of course, another interesting question: just how adept is Tony "Boot-Boy" Veitch at gauging the fear in a women's voice? Not very adept at all, judging by this morning's attempt at expressing empathy.
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