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« Reply #125 on: October 07, 2010, 05:21:48 pm »

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Editorial: TVNZ and its shock jock living in past
This article is an editorial...it is no more valid than any other opinion on this board.
Cheers Magoo.

And the NZ Herald can safely be ignored.
It absolutely detests electronic media and will lose no opportunity to put the boot in wherever it sees an opportunity.

Incidently, I see yet another poll is running at 80% support for Henry!


Guess what?

I've taken a quick look at the online websites of most of NZ's daily newspapers this afternoon, and I discovered a total of thirteen editorials about Paul Henry. All were scathing about his racist behaviour except one....Hawke's Bay Today, and they did criticise him, but then sat on the fence. Mind you, considering that the same edition of Hawke's Bay Today has an article about Paul Henry swanning around Napier since he was suspended, I guess they are part of the shallow 80% lowest common demoninator who are star-struck with the idiot!

I think I might have to post links to all of those editorials sometime this evening so you can read them for yourself and see that The New Zealand Herald isn't out on a limb, but is instead publishing the same opinion as virtually every other newspaper (bar one) in the country that has offered an opinion on Paul Henry's latest bigotry.
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« Reply #126 on: October 07, 2010, 05:33:02 pm »

stick this dude on the breakfast show till henry comes back Grin

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« Reply #127 on: October 07, 2010, 05:58:40 pm »

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I've taken a quick look at the online websites of most of NZ's daily newspapers this afternoon

Youve got to be kidding us!
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« Reply #128 on: October 07, 2010, 06:25:30 pm »

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« Reply #129 on: October 07, 2010, 06:43:00 pm »

All were scathing about his racist behaviour except one....Hawke's Bay Today, and they did criticise him, but then sat on the fence.

Dear god no!!! a newspaper that could possibly be non biased especialy toward a right winger, how dare they... how flippen well dare they.... string the bastards up!!! Roll Eyes
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« Reply #130 on: October 07, 2010, 08:26:52 pm »


Editorial: Of waving the flag and ‘real’ Kiwis

The Nelson Mail | 1:00PM - Tuesday, 05 October 2010

ONE DIFFICULTY in considering broadcaster Paul Henry's latest outburst is whether to bother dignifying it with a response.

Television New Zealand's jumped-up motormouth is presumably charged with following a single imperative: to boost ratings. If that means appealing to redneck New Zealand, Henry's their man, and offensive clangers are simply par for the course and best ignored. However, his latest target is none other than the Queen's representative in New Zealand. His race-based reasoning, if that's what calculated, clamouring for attention passes as, can be applied to tens, hundreds, of thousands of New Zealanders — presumably, to any of our citizens who don't look just like Henry.

In putting the Prime Minister on the spot by first questioning whether Governor-General Anand Satyanand was a New Zealander, and then asking whether the next vice-regal appointment would look and sound more like a Kiwi, Henry no doubt felt he was being witty, cheeky, and perhaps a tad outrageous.

In fact, he was displaying an embarrassing ignorance for a supposed current affairs broadcaster. Sir Anand was born and raised in Auckland and has worked here as a distinguished lawyer, judge and ombudsman before being appointed as New Zealand's first Governor-General of Indian-Pacific ancestry. By contrast, Henry spent many of his formative years in England and worked for the BBC. He arguably sounds no more "like a Kiwi" than Sir Anand.

However, that is beside the point. Our current Governor-General has performed the role as well as any of his predecessors and better than many. His appointment is seen by some as a symbol of this country's growing recognition of its multi-cultural base — even if the position itself is representative of ties to a country and system whose influence on and relevance to this nation are waning.

Henry yesterday afternoon offered what he termed a sincere apology to the Governor-General for any offence he might have caused. This is barely credible and will be seen as simply an attempt at damage-control. More instructive was an immediate response earlier in the day from a TVNZ spokeswoman. "The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he's prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud," she said. Is this really what New Zealanders are "quietly thinking" whenever someone with a brownish skin achieves high office? Maybe there is something in Maori Party maverick Hone Harawira's discontent after all.

The outburst came at a time when many were debating the decision to charge expat South African Irene van Dyk with carrying the New Zealand flag at the head of our Commonwealth Games team in Delhi. As simply a team-member of a non-traditional Games event — not even the captain — the lanky goal shoot's elevation was questionable. Compounding the controversy, she was not born here and had previously represented her home nation in netball. However, the appointment does suggest New Zealand is a country that welcomes immigrants prepared to contribute to and embrace their new home. That provides a healthy counter to Henry's racial rantings.


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« Reply #131 on: October 07, 2010, 08:28:08 pm »


Well....that Nelson Mail editorial certainly hit the nail right on the head!


The editor of that newspaper is obviously an intelligent person who isn't part of the 80% lowest common demoninator.
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« Reply #132 on: October 07, 2010, 08:36:10 pm »


How about this from the Taranaki Daily News? 



Editorial: Henry proves he's a turn-off

Taranaki Daily News | 5:00AM - Wednesday, 06 October 2010

LAST WEEK we asked what makes a New Zealander. This week, Paul Henry answered: it's anybody who looks and sounds like him.

And that is white, a little nerdy, possibly slightly ‘retarded’ and with the hint of a European accent. Everyone else doesn't qualify. Everyone else is not a genuine Kiwi and not part of his acceptable gated community.

It's a vision shared by many apparently genuine New Zealanders who see Henry as their paragon of non-political correctness, their king of common sense and talisman of the truth.

But the reality is somewhat different. The reality is that although mildly entertaining, Henry is a living monument to ignorance and snobby buffoonery. He is the preening, loud-mouthed assassin sent out by ‘ordinary Kiwis’ to communicate all those little truisms that we all supposedly think but dare not say.

It is, apparently, what we all love about him.

We are the sneering, sniggering mob and he is our proxy, sent in to take the slings and arrows that go with the poor-taste, all-knowing guffaws and racist pokes in the ribs that honour the bland, the beige and the homogenous by cruelly disparaging the diverse.

He's a highly paid bully with a pulpit, railing at the info-tainment edge of broadcasting that feeds the lowest common denominator by appealing to its mistrust of difference and diversity and its disdain for the truth.

He's the purveyor of that little insinuation that becomes true by the exponential multiplication of its retelling: Don't like United States President Barack Obama? Well, did you hear that he's not even American and is actually a Muslim with connections to al-Qaeda?

The most laughable aspect of the whole farce is that one could ask whether Henry is a real New Zealander. His skin tone may be the ‘acceptable’ hue but the accent is certainly not genuine. Maybe he picked that up during his eight years out of the country, eight years working in the United Kingdom. Eight years during which Sir Anad Satyanand was working as a lawyer in Auckland. Not very Kiwi, is it?

And as for that Pippa Wetzell — what kind of name is that? Sounds a little foreign, possibly even German. And you know what they're like, don't you?

It is fair and right that TVNZ has suspended Henry. We may have been able to tolerate his poor taste and bad manners in comments on Susan Boyle's features and another woman's facial hair, but attacking the heritage of the Governor-General by questioning his allegiance and ethnicity and casting aspersions on his claims to such high office rivals the cheeky pratfalls of broadcasting's other big Paul. Both transgressors are not particularly tall — we wonder if there's something in that?


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« Reply #133 on: October 07, 2010, 08:47:37 pm »


Editorial: Henry slur a sign of TVNZ's weakness

The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 06 October 2010

Henry Suspended

THE RIGHTNESS of Paul Henry's suspension from TVNZ's Breakfast show is matched only by the wrongness of the state broadcaster's initial attempts to excuse his racially offensive remarks on Monday morning.

The corporation has forgotten what it means to be a public broadcaster.

Henry is not everyone's cup of tea. He is irritatingly smug and a playground bully who delights in picking on those weaker than himself.

But he is also a quirky, at times amusing, broadcaster who has helped to give his employer a huge advantage over its free-to-air rival TV3 at the start of the television day.

However, the commercial benefits of his shock-jock antics should not blind TVNZ to its responsibilities as a public broadcaster or even as a corporate citizen.

It was utterly wrong for Henry to belittle Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand during an interview with Prime Minister John Key because he did not "look and sound" like a New Zealander.

The New Zealand-born and educated Sir Anand is big and savvy enough to look after himself. However, Henry's remarks were a slur not just on the governor-general but on every New Zealander who does not share his skin colour.

Curiously, Henry appears to have recognised that before his employer did. He issued an inadequate apology "for any offence I might have caused" on Monday afternoon and a full, comprehensive, on-air apology yesterday morning.

Meantime, TVNZ was still trying to pass off his remarks as an inconsequential jape. "The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he's prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud," a company spokeswoman said.

Presumably TVNZ would use the same logic to defend President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitic rants were it operating in Iran.

It was not until more than 24 hours after the event that the company realised it had misread the public, or political, winds, suspended Henry without pay, and issued an apology that included an undertaking from chief executive Rick Ellis to personally apologise to the governor-general.

There is no disputing Henry's right to vent his prejudices. In fact, enabling him to do so serves a useful purpose.

One of the virtues of free speech is that it exposes to public scrutiny the dark corners in the minds of those who seek to influence others.

"Let her [truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter," wrote poet John Milton in 1644.

However, a publicly owned broadcaster should not seek to profit from cheap shots that marginalise minority groups.

TVNZ's belated recognition of the untenability of its position is yet another reason for the Government to consider the broadcaster's future. With its puerile news service and near-constant diet of reality shows and foreign programmes, TVNZ is indistinguishable from its private-sector rivals. It should be sold to the highest bidder.

The public service component of broadcasting can be preserved through NZ On Air funding of specific programmes.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/editorials/4200549/Editorial-Henry-slur-a-sign-of-TVNZs-weakness



Editorial: Why did TVNZ tarry?

The Timaru Herald | 5:00AM - Wednesday, 06 October 2010

THE SUSPENSION without pay of Breakfast host Paul Henry by TVNZ was something the state broadcaster could scarcely avoid after his inappropriate comments about Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand.

Chief executive Rick Ellis, announcing the two-week suspension yesterday, said that Henry, known for his controversial comments on the show, had "well and truly" crossed the line when he asked Prime Minister John Key about the appointment of the next Governor-General.

"Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time?" he said to a surprised Mr Key, who later said the comments were "... plain wrong".

The suspension of the so-called "shock jock" was clearly the right thing to do. What was interesting about it, though, was that it didn't happen until yesterday, when the comments had been made early on Monday morning. By the time it was announced by Mr Ellis, a story had already been published by Fairfax saying that TVNZ had come under attack for failing to condemn Henry's comments.

Indeed, TVNZ had initially backed Henry on Monday. A spokesperson said he was known for saying what people "quietly think but are scared to say out loud". What people would those be then, given that this country is a multicultural melting pot?

The sequence of events leading up to his suspension helps create the impression that, until it became clear to executives just how strong the negative response to Henry's comments was, the broadcaster had hoped that, as with previous Henry indiscretions, it would be able to ride this one out. Otherwise the suspension would surely have been in place "by lunchtime" on Monday.

Talking about Henry yesterday, Mr Ellis said: "He often pushes the boundaries and that's important in a country that values freedom of speech."

In other words, until he went too far, Henry had been pushing the boundaries with the full encouragement of TVNZ, because the controversy he creates pulls viewers.

What's most concerning about this whole affair is that TVNZ initially backed Henry on the basis that, to paraphrase, "he's the man who says what we all secretly think".

If that was truly the case, we'd have real cause for concern about the future of New Zealand. If we all went around thinking things like "Wow, look at the moustache on that Greenpeace woman!" or "Gee, you can see Susan Boyle's retarded if you look closely enough" or "he shouldn't be the Governor-General; he doesn't even look like a real Kiwi" we'd be nothing more than a nation of playground bullies intolerant of anyone different. And surely the vast majority of us don't want that.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/opinion/4200949/Editorial-Why-did-TVNZ-tarry



Editorial: Live by the word, die by the word

The Southland Times | 5:00AM - Wednesday, 06 September 2010

HE WHO lives by the word shall die by the word, and while TVNZ Breakfast host Paul Henry is technically still alive and kicking, his bosses have placed him in suspended animation for a fortnight. Will they flick the switch to revive him at the end of that time?

Or is that time finally up?

Henry has carefully crafted his "shock jock" image through a series of choreographed controversies, most notably suggesting that singer Susan Boyle looked "retarded" and that a woman guest on the show was in need of a shave. He may even have taken his recent People's Choice win at the Qantas Film and TV Awards as a green light from the viewing public to push even further into the outrageous.

But he's done it this time.

There is no wriggle room in his patently racist observation that our Governor-General, Anand Satyanand, does not look like a New Zealander.

And his belated apology to the Governor-General completely misses the point that his comment would have stung every New Zealander who doesn't look like ... who exactly? White and balding like Henry, and with crooked teeth? Is that our benchmark?

If so, we haven't had one of those since Sir David Beattie in the 1980s.

The real beef isn't with Henry, of course, who is only performing as he has been primed to do. In its ratings-driven race to the bottom of the market, TVNZ — our State broadcaster, remember — has reached for the "shock jock" tactics deployed in the country of their birth, the United States, by usually the most marginal and therefore irrelevant broadcasting outlets.

TVNZ's initial response to the hubbub over Henry's latest clanger was to back him, saying he was known for saying what people "quietly think but are scared to say out loud".

A day later, that backing had withered in the heat of public outrage and Henry was suspended.

Clearly, TVNZ is more upset about the outcry than it is about the comment.

The mystery in all this is how TVNZ is coming to represent both the best and worst of television at the same time.

Digital channel TVNZ7, accessible through Freeview and Sky, has in its 8pm news a programme that is best described as Morning Report on TV — an hour of interviews and items each significantly longer and more in-depth than anything on TV One or TV3 at 6pm.

And no ads to boot.

But back to Henry — should TVNZ bring him back at the end of his time in the wilderness?

The dilemma for TVNZ boss Rick Ellis is this: if he brings Henry back and he offends again, both are likely to get the chop; if Ellis brings him back but with a "final warning" hanging over his head, will a muzzled Henry prove to have little to offer if outrage is off the menu? Either way, blood flows.

Difficult choices.

One thing's for sure — Close Up host Mark Sainsbury can relax and stop looking over his shoulder.


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« Reply #134 on: October 07, 2010, 09:00:10 pm »


Editorial comment: What does it take to be a real Kiwi?

By Assitant Editor SIMON CUNLIFFE - Otago Daily Times | Wednesday, 06 October 2010

Paul Henry

SUBJECT A WAS BORN in Auckland in 1944.

He attended Richmond Road School in Ponsonby, and Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes.

He graduated from Auckland University with a bachelor of laws degree in 1970 and worked at the Crown Solicitor's Office in Auckland, before being appointed a District Court judge in 1982.

He sat in Palmerston North, then various Auckland courts, before being appointed a Parliamentary Ombudsman in 1994, serving two five-year terms, before being elevated to one of the country's highest offices in 2006.

He was made a distinguished companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006 and subsequently redesignated a Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit — "Sir" to you and me.


SUBJECT B WAS ALSO BORN in Auckland, in 1960.

In 1971, at the age of 11, he moved with his mother to Bristol, in the United Kingdom, where he completed his education and won a drama school scholarship.

He began a career in broadcasting working for the BBC before eventually returning to New Zealand.

He was employed by a number of radio stations before setting up his own in 1991.

He moved on to numerous other roles on Radio Pacific and Radio Live and ran unsuccessfully as a National Party candidate in the Wairarapa electorate, won by transsexual Labour MP Georgina Beyer.

He now hosts a high-profile national breakfast television show and has won notoriety for several incidents in which he has belittled public figures.


ON THE ABOVE evidence — admittedly not complete — which of our subjects is more entitled to consider himself a real "New Zealander"? Neither, is the correct answer, for they are both equally entitled to call themselves Kiwis.

But if one had to choose, if one had to weigh up competing claims, it might be thought Subject A could have the edge.

On what basis?

Longevity, for starters: he's lived here longer.

Uninterrupted residence? Public service? Contribution to society?

It's an academic exercise, but not according to Subject B, who this week clearly insinuated in the presence of the Prime Minister, John Key, that Subject A's credentials as a New Zealander were questionable.


ON MONDAY MORNING, on state broadcaster TV One's Breakfast programme, host Paul Henry Hopes, more commonly known as Paul Henry, asked Mr Key of Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand, "Is he even a New Zealander?"

Mr Henry, revealing the underlying thrust of his question, continued: "Are you going to choose a New Zealander [as Governor-General] who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time ... Are we going to go for someone who is more like a New Zealander this time?"

For Paul Henry, the colour of Sir Anand Satyanand's skin, his ethnicity and voice inflections, single him out as not a real New Zealander.

It is hard to describe this as anything other than racism.

And into this matey, blokes-like-us conspiracy of insinuation, Mr Henry invited Mr Key.

Not normally short of a word, nor presence of mind, on the occasion Mr Key's deserted him and it was not until later in the day that he saw fit to contradict or condemn his erstwhile host.

Mr Henry subsequently issued the standard meaningless and unfelt apology for any "offence caused", then again, as the fallout began to settle in, more sincerely — apparently.

Belatedly, yesterday, a day after the event and having at first tried to defend its broadcaster's actions, TVNZ suspended Mr Henry without pay until October 18 — a period of a little less than two weeks.

Mr Henry has many skills as a broadcaster.

He is intelligent, sharp, with a distinctive and playful wit.

He is, for instance, especially good at shafting the shibboleths of humourless political correctness: that which should not be spoken, he takes a certain pride in speaking.

That is fine, as far as it goes, welcome even, and refreshing.

But Mr Henry would also enlist us all — using as his platform the offices of the "public broadcaster", TV One — into his particular world view, political, cultural, social.

Beneath the jokey mien runs a vein of mean-spirited prejudice: whether it is facial hair on female studio guests, the "retarded" appearance of Susan Boyle, the unnaturalness of homosexuals, or expressing the view that to be a real New Zealander you have to be white-skinned, like himself and Mr Key, and talk just like it.

Behind it all seems to be the idea that "difference" is to be singled out and mocked.

And after the mockery ..? What then?

The calumnies of history tell us that is a dangerous path to traverse.

Initially, a TVNZ spokesman defended Mr Henry on the basis the audience consistently says they like the host precisely because "he's prepared to say things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud".

This is as indefensible as Mr Henry's original remarks.

First, that the public broadcaster apparently sees fit to ascribe to all New Zealanders complicity in Mr Henry's racist sentiments is insulting and offensive; second, it shows yet again that ultimately TV One aspires to no higher standards than those of a ratings-craving populism — a brand of broadcasting inexorably bound for the gutter.


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« Reply #135 on: October 07, 2010, 09:07:38 pm »

The Herald editorial is interesting for the fact that the paper is deeply conservative and more likely to support a National Party groupie.

You have to feel sorry for Paul. If I were he the next time Henry crawls on to the set I would walk out, go straight to management with an   ëither he goes, or I go" message.

If I was management I would say 'oh well you know where the door is.'

Bad move. That would give Williams a cast iron case for constructive dismissal. You've just cost TVNZ a six-figure settlement. Time to resign, I think.
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Editorial: Henry jibe off the mark

Waikato Times | 12 NOON - Wednesday, 06 October 2010

IN HIS OWN cheeky way, Paul Henry cut to the chase and asked an existential question for our times: who or what is a New Zealander?

It's just a shame he was racist about it.

Like Don Brash with his Orewa speech, Henry lifted the lid on something that remains central in the New Zealand psyche — or at least in the white part of our psyche. Not that he thought he was racist and that is probably the point. So chummy was he with the prime minister on his Monday Breakfast show, and so secure is he in his position as the people's choice of broadcaster, that he simply didn't pause to think, stopping himself only with a flippant comment that he might one day want to be considered for governor-general himself.

He had already twice queried Sir Anand Satyanand's fitness for the post after being told by John Key that Sir Anand was, in fact, a New Zealander born and bred.

With his final tilt at the subject, Henry asked: "Are we going to go for someone who's more like a New Zealander this time though?"

No-one needed to ask what he meant by that, and no-one in the studio did. Henry thinks someone with an Indian name and complexion isn't a New Zealander.

That's regardless of whether they were born here or not. In doing so, he is reflecting a racist streak in our makeup. Once it was even legislated for, as Chinese immigrants faced legalised discrimination.

Now it's merely embedded.

And that was good enough for his employers, with TVNZ defending him by saying in a statement: "The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he's prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud."

There's no doubt Henry is an engaging and quick-witted broadcaster. That he goes where few others would dare is hardly a criticism in itself.

His success is its own validation.

But TVNZ's statement on this occasion begged the question of who "we" are.

It's hard to imagine many Indian New Zealanders cheering Henry on. It's hard to imagine many other immigrant groups cheering him on either.

TVNZ is now scrambling to cover itself by suspending Henry, but the damage has largely been done.

To get back to Henry's question. Who or what is a New Zealander?

Let's start by accepting we come from all corners.

And it's not just that anyone is entitled to come from anywhere, it's that in settling here they become New Zealanders. More than that, they influence the quality of New Zealandness.

Some people may not like that but it's true.

We're rapidly becoming a much browner society, as the population of Asian and Pacific Island descent increases. Henry should wake up.


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Editorial: Maverick Henry in need of muzzle

Bay of Plenty Times | Wednesday, 06 October 2010

WHAT IS to be done about maverick TVNZ host Paul Henry?

The television presenter has regularly found himself in trouble, after infamously describing homosexuality as "unnatural", ridiculing a female guest on Breakfast for having a "moustache" and labelling singer Susan Boyle as retarded.

In recent times, he mocked the pronunciation of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit's surname.

But it's his comments live on television on Monday morning, while talking to Prime Minister John Key, that have finally seen the broadcaster cross the line.

Henry has been suspended for two weeks without pay after questioning whether Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand looked and sounded "like a real New Zealander".

The comments baffled Mr Key and have been met with outrage across New Zealand, with politicians quick to condemn Henry and a protest held outside TVNZ's Auckland headquarters yesterday afternoon.

The suspension is a good move by TVNZ, but given the nature of the comments made by its errant host, coupled with his past history, the company did not really have any other option. To have done nothing would have effectively acted as an endorsement of his views and for a state broadcaster, that is simply not good enough.

There will be some who claim suspension is not enough and who want Henry fired.

Those same people will claim TVNZ is only keeping Henry because his on-screen antics generate higher viewership.

It's likely there's a good amount of truth to this.

Henry is renowned for offending people — TVNZ spokesperson Andi Brotherston said the network had been told people loved Henry because he was "prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud".

Most people make off-colour comments from time to time.

However, they are not on national television every morning.

Henry's actions in abusing media yesterday, after being suspended from his job, reek of hypocrisy.

Henry seemingly believes he can say whatever he wants from his privileged role in the media, but when that same media asks questions of him, he responds with profanity and legal threats.

Nevertheless, there is still a lot to like about Paul Henry.

Putting his gaffes to one side, he is a free spirit and his honesty and willingness to say exactly what he is thinking can be refreshing in the often-staid world of New Zealand television.

TVNZ and Henry need to come to some sort of compromise — Henry needs to be able to keep expressing the personality that has made him so popular with many television viewers, but he also needs to be reined in so that he amuses, rather than offends.


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Editorial: TVNZ loves its Breakfast supermouth

Hawke's Bay Today | Wednesday, 06 October 2010

HAS PAUL HENRY gone too far this time?

I doubt it. TVNZ loves its shoot-from-the-lip presenter.

The State broadcaster could hardly be accused of getting on the front foot of the debate over Henry's latest comments with its two-week suspension of him yesterday.

Interviewing Prime Minister John Key, Henry asked if Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand was "even a New Zealander" and urged the PM to choose someone who "looks and sounds more like a New Zealander this time". More than 600 complaints flooded TVNZ.

Henry's comments were condemned by the Race Relations Commissioner, and rightly so.

Not everyone was offended but that's probably because many think Paul Henry is paid to be a controversial clown — barely a month goes by in which he doesn't utter some nonsense about shooting Moko, or that's a lady with a moustache. TVNZ thinks it's fabulous.

Henry's hard to take seriously. But you might not feel the same if you were a new New Zealander, particularly one of Indian extraction, watching the State broadcaster standing behind its Breakfast show host as he insults an ethnic New Zealander who has contributed more to the country than many Kiwis ever will.

At least Henry had the good sense to apologise.

His employer's first reaction was to defend its Breakfast rogue by saying Henry only says what people "quietly think but are scared to say out loud".

But the jungle drums were beating for Henry yesterday and by lunchtime it was announced that he would be stood down from his job for two weeks.

A street poll conducted by Hawke's Bay Today showed most people thought Henry should not lose his job so perhaps the outcome is the right one. Question is: Will he use his time at home to reflect on his errant mouth or to practise more mad lines in the mirror?


http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/local/news/editorial-tvnz-loves-its-breakfast-supermouth/3925400
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Editorial: TVNZ and its shock jock living in past

The New Zealand Herald | 5:29AM - Thursday, October 07, 2010

It seems not to have occurred to Mr Henry that this is a nation of immigrants. — Photo: Greg Bowker.
It seems not to have occurred to Mr Henry
that this is a nation of immigrants.
 — Photo: Greg Bowker.


THE MOST TELLING aspect of Paul Henry's suggestion that the Governor-General who succeeded Sir Anand Satyanand should look and sound like a New Zealander lay in its immediate aftermath.

The TV presenter told a website he did not regret his comments, and if anybody took exception, it was because "some people are easily offended".

Television New Zealand, his employer, seemed equally bemused by the fuss. "The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he's prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud," a spokeswoman said.

It is debatable which of the responses was the more deplorable. But both revealed a staggering lack of awareness of what Mr Henry had proposed to the Prime Minister on TVNZ's Breakfast show.

They appeared to believe any complaints required only the standard response delivered for Mr Henry's many previous insults. They could not distinguish between his comments about a Scottish singer and the implications of what he had asked John Key.

Further, both badly misread the reaction of the vast majority of New Zealanders, who recognised a boundary had been breached.

It was to be more than 24 hours before both the presenter and TVNZ came to acknowledge the extent of the blunder, culminating in the decision to suspend Mr Henry without pay until October 18. There was little option.

Apologies, especially those as inept as Mr Henry's, were never going to suffice. They failed to address the offence to Sir Anand, who was born here to parents who migrated from Fiji, and who has a distinguished record as a lawyer, judge, ombudsman and Governor-General.

That, according to Mr Henry, does not make him a New Zealander.

Nor did the apologies deal with the offence that could have been taken by the sons and daughters of every immigrant. It seems not to have occurred to Mr Henry that this is a nation of immigrants, and that, today, about a quarter of New Zealanders are born overseas.


John Key's Time Out!

TVNZ ticked many of the right boxes in announcing the suspension. Mr Henry's remarks were inappropriate for anyone in the company, said the chief executive, Rick Ellis.

While the presenter had been given a lot of freedom with the Breakfast programme, with that freedom came responsibility, he added. But it did not comment on the wider issue of the state broadcaster employing a shock jock, who deliberately courts controversy in a bid to gain ratings for a flagship programme.

TVNZ's initial response suggested that little else mattered other than appealing to the lowest common denominator. Ratings were the driving force, even in a slot devoid of current affairs competition since TV3's withdrawal.

Doubtless, they would have been very good yesterday as people awaited Mr Henry's next move. Given all this, it is perhaps little wonder Maori Television has usurped the role of public broadcaster in many ways.

The Government's financial demands on TVNZ are a significant factor in its approach. It was, therefore, somewhat ironic that John Key was among the collateral damage. The Prime Minister seemed taken aback by Mr Henry's comments, and failed to deliver the swift rebuke that would surely have come from his predecessor. It pointed to a lack of agility and decisiveness in pressure situations.

Sir Anand Satyanand's appointment as Governor-General was widely applauded. It said much about New Zealand today and what it is to be a New Zealander.

Mr Henry seems to be wallowing in a long distant past. So is TVNZ, judging by its initial response. If there is a next time, the appropriate reaction will have to come quicker — and be more decisive.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10678426



Editorial: Paul Henry had too much free rein

The Marlborough Express | 12:02PM - Thursday, 07 October 2010

LET'S GIVE YOU the benefit of the doubt, Paul Henry.

You have a top-rating television show. Thousands of people demonstrate their love by voting in your favour on newspaper websites.

You probably got a considerable pay rise this year to keep you from going to TV3. You are funny in an industry that hasn't had a decent comic since Fred Dagg or Billy T.

Your employer backs you every time "the nannas" get upset when you are unkind to Susan Boyle or women with moustaches.

No-one of any importance has ever told you ‘no’.

Your mum is still very proud of you.

All this contributes to someone who can happily ask if Governor-General Anand Satyanand is a New Zealander — and then ask if we can please have a real Kiwi next time round.

And these questions were asked of Prime Minister John Key.

The footage from the Breakfast programme on Monday when Paul Henry asked the question shows Mr Key presumably being either too polite or too taken aback to protest.

We can't really hold Paul Henry responsible for the views he has. He has every right to hold them. The predicament is that he can do so on national television through the medium of the state broadcaster.

Television New Zealand has helped create this problem by letting their man have his head because he is a ratings supremo. So it has to be TVNZ that takes much of the responsibility for employing someone whose opinions are racist.

And we should hold the broadcaster responsible for not reining in their star earlier, and certainly for spending 24 hours arguing Paul Henry's views are the kind many people hold in private but are too scared to say in public.

By now enough New Zealanders have told TVNZ head Rick Ellis that we don't think like this, and certainly don't want a kind of unspoken collective racism used as an excuse for their presenter's offensiveness.

If TVNZ genuinely thought questioning the governor-general's Kiwi-ness was acceptable then the state broadcaster really hasn't got a clue.

Part of the problem is New Zealand has been heading down this path for several years.

It has become OK to be cruel and unthinking. This is what gave TVNZ the chutzpah to defend the indefensible.

But Paul Henry is not a comedian or talk show host. He is the face of Television New Zealand and the presenter of one of their principal shows.

Perhaps we will learn in the next couple of weeks with Paul Henry gone that others can host the Breakfast show and be funny, entertaining and popular without being loathsome.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/opinion/4207089/Editorial-Paul-Henry-had-too-much-free-rein
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« Reply #139 on: October 07, 2010, 09:22:42 pm »


Well....there's a sample of what NZ's newspaper editorials are writing about Paul Henry.

There are a few more, but they virtually say the same as what is in the editorials I have posted.

No doubt, there will be a few more editorials on this topic published into tomorrow's newspapers.
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« Reply #140 on: October 07, 2010, 09:37:35 pm »

The Waikato Times can't even get its quotes right.

Henry didn't ask "who or what is a New Zealander?" He asked whether the Prime Minister was going to appoint "someone more like a New Zealander"

Since then he has deliberately mispronounced the name of an Indian official and suggested people got salmonella from tomatoes because they were picked by Hispanics.

How much longer can this racist, offensive piece of shit survive?

I see he has been dropped from an NZ version of This is Your Life. To be replaced by another racist, offensive piece of shit named Paul Holmes. Great call.
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« Reply #141 on: October 08, 2010, 06:22:35 am »


Well....there's a sample of what NZ's newspaper editorials are writing about Paul Henry.

There are a few more, but they virtually say the same as what is in the editorials I have posted.

No doubt, there will be a few more editorials on this topic published into tomorrow's newspapers.


Good God!  He wasnt kidding!

I have never had that much time on my hands myself.........
I never read long cut & pastes and have no intention of starting now. 

You just cant abide the fact that as has been demonstrated, the bulk of the NZ citizenry support Paul Henry, and think that the anal retentives bagging him should grow at least a notochord.  [a spine would probably be a big ask]
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« Reply #142 on: October 08, 2010, 06:37:35 am »

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« Reply #143 on: October 08, 2010, 07:01:25 am »

What a bizarre country NZ is getting in a froth about the host of a programme few watch yet we tolerate a racist party the Maori party and accept being regularly insulted by one of its MPs
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« Reply #144 on: October 08, 2010, 07:14:18 am »

What a bizarre country NZ is getting in a froth about the host of a programme few watch yet we tolerate a racist party the Maori party and accept being regularly insulted by one of its MPs

You're back to front. 80% of the population support Henry however I'm sure 80% of the population detest Hawera
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« Reply #145 on: October 08, 2010, 07:19:50 am »

 Hone Harawira gets a free pass when he calls us white motherfuckers, and that seemed a little less tongue in cheek that anything Paul Henry has ever said.
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« Reply #147 on: October 08, 2010, 08:09:55 am »

Just shows what happens when a tall poppy tells the monopoly and syndicated news murderers to F/O
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« Reply #148 on: October 08, 2010, 08:14:44 am »

Hone Harawira gets a free pass when he calls us white motherfuckers, and that seemed a little less tongue in cheek that anything Paul Henry has ever said.

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« Reply #149 on: October 08, 2010, 09:53:38 am »

Who says 80% of NZ'ers support Paul Henry  ?
There is plenty of frothing at the mouth by Paul Henry supporters from what I can see.
PH is a supposed to be TV host not a school boy who is having a giggle in the toilet block.


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