Why is National Radio, or ANYONE, still talking to the S.S. Trust? (July 12, 2011)

12 July 2011 at 11:07 pm

Why is National Radio, or ANYONE, still talking to the S.S. Trust?

Just a few months ago, Noelle McCarthy, filling in for Jim Mora, interviewed the bloodthirsty Hawkes Bay boer Garth (The Knife) McVicar. Noelle made no attempt to hide her contempt and loathing for McVicar, and tried in vain to get him to say why he had supported the knife-killing of a boy in Auckland, and why he continued to defend the vile criminal and grave-robber David Garrett…
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09032011/#comment-306178

It seemed then that National Radio was declaring publicly that it would have no more to do with that reptile or his disgusting organization.

No such luck, however. On “The Panel” this afternoon, Jim Mora interviewed some fanatic from the Sensible Sentence Trust, this time about the death in jail of a man who murdered a girl in 1967. I was so shocked at the fact that Jim Mora would even countenance interviewing one of these knife enthusiasts, I failed to ascertain if the S.S. Trust supported this murder or was against it.

I whipped off the following e-mail….

From: Morrissey Breen
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:30 PM
To: Afternoons
Subject: Why are you continuing to quote the S.S. Trust?Dear Jim,
Why are you quoting anyone from the Sensible Sentencing Trust? You are aware, I take it, that Garth McVicar loudly and defiantly supported the killer of a teenage boy in Auckland, and still expresses support for the hypocrite and criminal David Garrett.
It’s all very well having Jock Anderson making flippant jokes about Tamil refugees and asylum-seekers, but continuing to quote such a depraved and discredited organization as the S.S. Trust takes the level of irresponsibility on “The Panel” to a new low, and raises serious questions about your integrity and your judgement.

Yours sincerely,
Morrissey Breen
Northcote Point

At 5.15 p.m. Jim replied….
"No it doesn’t. I do not want to censor views. Jim"

• Vicky3221.1

  13 July 2011 at 1:21 am

  No it doesn’t. I do not want to censor views. Jim

  Wow, what a deep and meaningful response! I can’t stand Mora and won’t listen to him any longer, which is a pity…
• Colonial Viper21.2

  13 July 2011 at 8:05 am

  No it doesn’t. I do not want to censor views. Jim

  What BS. How many times has he censored the views of people speaking out against the BS positions of the SS Trust.

  Giving air time weight to the views of a group of discredited narrow minded idiots like the SST doesn’t help Mora at all.
  • Morrissey21.2.1

    13 July 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Giving air time weight to the views of a group of discredited narrow minded idiots like the SST doesn’t help Mora at all.

    I note that one of Jim Mora’s Panelists today was the odious Stephen Franks, an S.S. Trust lawyer and close friend of Garth the Knife McVicar.
• prism21.3

  14 July 2011 at 2:08 pm

  Morrissey Which means that Jim Mora says that his mind is as wide open to anything as a fence catching papers in a gale.
  • Morrissey21.3.1

    16 July 2011 at 9:10 am

    Which means that Jim Mora says that his mind is as wide open to anything as a fence catching papers in a gale.

    I think the problem is his producer. Jim just has to work with what is arranged for him. It’s the same with the extreme right wing commentators Brian Crump has to interview in the evenings.

    The list of political “correspondents” that regularly commentate on National Radio is depressing: From New Zealand: Michael Bassett, Michelle Boag, David Farrar, Jock Anderson, Stephen Franks, Deborah Hill Cone, Rosemary McLeod, John Bishop, John Barnett, Graham Bell, Richard Griffin, Neil Miller.

    From overseas they are just as bad, if not worse: Lana Shaheen, Liat Collins, Irris Makler, Jason Morrison, Rory Carroll.

    Someone actually decides to use such partisan, dishonest, cynical commentators—and it’s not the poor old host.
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