Ardern Broken Promises Costing lives

[Blue Skies]

ZB Breakfast host Mike Hosking won the Sir Paul Holmes Broadcaster of the Year Award - for the third time in his career

You don't get that if you have no listeners or credibility, so if you're a politician not on the Hosking show, you're forsaking an enormous pool of listeners. He has a knack for making the schmoozers squirm and appear awkward, as for the liars, well they just get a full on ripping.

These Radio Awards are just a big w#nkfest, it's just the radio industry people giving themselves awards & many stations/ hosts don't even bother submitting entries (which are time consuming to produce) & they tend to rotate them amongst those who do.
Hoskins is not a journalist, he's a unfortunately a poorly educated but bright right wing shock jock on a commercial Talkback station which has no real competition in that format (now Radio Live has gone).
ZB management demand their hosts to be strongly opinionated because conflict & discontent drives ratings which delivers listeners to the endless advertisements which pay their salaries & comfortable lifestyles.
It doesn't even pretend to be an objective neutral source of informed comment.
It's strongly right wing, look at past hosts like climate denier Leighton Smith who continues to push conspiracy theories on his podcasts.

Popularity has never been a measure of credibility or value, I'm sure KFC & white bread sells far more than salmon & salad, doesn't mean its better for you!

Adern was not going to allow Hoskins to exploit her with his constant provocation to drive his ratings.
He was not interested in a sensible conversation, Talkback radio thrives on conflict & discontent, & there's always an audience for that.
Adern has a couple of million followers on social media & is regularly on other main stream media.

[Baa_Baa]

I'm not all that interested in the Labour apologists as I'd expect from them a put down to everything anyone says that questions their political party's relevance and lack of achievement.

Their blind bias and as it turns out, ill founded faith, undermines their credibility and personal failure to even acknowledge, let alone consider an alternative point of view.

But the fact remains, Adern withered under the Hoskings interviews, she had no come back and got flustered and frustrated, so decided to avoid being questioned at all. She ran away from valid scrutiny.

Perhaps had she put up good arguments, solid reasoning and debate as to why Hosking was wrong with what he was saying, then she could have owned the audience and made Hosking look like the fool.

The opposite happened though, she ran away from criticism and failed to leverage the massive audience of ZB radio.

[ynot]

These Radio Awards are just a big w#nkfest, it's just the radio industry people giving themselves awards & many stations/ hosts don't even bother submitting entries (which are time consuming to produce) & they tend to rotate them amongst those who do.
Hoskins is not a journalist, he's a unfortunately a poorly educated but bright right wing shock jock on a commercial Talkback station which has no real competition in that format (now Radio Live has gone).
ZB management demand their hosts to be strongly opinionated because conflict & discontent drives ratings which delivers listeners to the endless advertisements which pay their salaries & comfortable lifestyles.
It doesn't even pretend to be an objective neutral source of informed comment.
It's strongly right wing, look at past hosts like climate denier Leighton Smith who continues to push conspiracy theories on his podcasts.

Popularity has never been a measure of credibility or value, I'm sure KFC & white bread sells far more than salmon & salad, doesn't mean its better for you!

Adern was not going to allow Hoskins to exploit her with his constant provocation to drive his ratings.
He was not interested in a sensible conversation, Talkback radio thrives on conflict & discontent, & there's always an audience for that.
Adern has a couple of million followers on social media & is regularly on other main stream media.

I agree with you to a point on Hoskings and what drives talkback radio, however the sheep that follow her on social media are no feather in her cap. She avoids hard questions like the plague. That is because she is fundamentally dishonest and is incapable of facing true scrutiny.

[whatsup]

Her TV station TVNZ did her no favours on the six o'clock news tonight. The ice she is standing on is beginning to melt. Come the election next year she will be swimming for her life.

The witch shouldnt be there in the first, if it wasnt for that ma$$ot where should she be ? back in the only job that she had before the political freebe, in the fish and chip shop watching out incase a ram raider comes calling !!

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She would have to upskill

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One of the TV presenters orders 2 fish and a battered sausage.

Hope that order is not too diverse for 2f 1c Cinders.

[tim23]

ZB Breakfast host Mike Hosking won the Sir Paul Holmes Broadcaster of the Year Award - for the third time in his career

You don't get that if you have no listeners or credibility, so if you're a politician not on the Hosking show, you're forsaking an enormous pool of listeners. He has a knack for making the schmoozers squirm and appear awkward, as for the liars, well they just get a full on ripping.

Newstalk ZB the unofficial PR machine for the National Party. And to think Hosking was used as a moderator in political leader’s debate - its farcical.

[Baa_Baa]

Newstalk ZB the unofficial PR machine for the National Party. And to think Hosking was used as a moderator in political leader’s debate - its farcical.

Hosking consistently took the PM apart, she had nothing except the exchanging of Xmas gifts Here, you can enjoy them all over again.

This was after she permanently cancelled her regular interviews:

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It's hard to forget the Hosking interview where the PM actually took herself apart.
It was a tad tragic for the PM....

Unfortunately, her understanding of what 'GDP' meant was found to be significantly wanting. Superficial at best. That interview, amongst others, was probably the beginning of the end for her regular appearances on Newstalk ZB.

[ynot]

I agree with you to a point on Hoskings and what drives talkback radio, however the sheep that follow her on social media are no feather in her cap. She avoids hard questions like the plague. That is because she is fundamentally dishonest and is incapable of facing true scrutiny.

Second thoughts here Blue Skies on my Hoskings comment..
If the likes of Hoskings does not ask her the hard questions, Who will ! She is supposedly running the country after all !

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Second thoughts here Blue Skies on my Hoskings comment..
If the likes of Hoskings does not ask her the hard questions, Who will ! She is supposedly running the country after all !

I never heard Hosking ask her anything unreasonable - what seemed to irritate her, was he would persist until he got an answer.