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Morena, I giggled at your previous post, of Shut up and Go away! I shouted some words, Up and Off! Starting with an F! Todays post, I giggled all the way through. The sharp wit! The removal of the remote! I did that on Sunday watching Q&A with Mr 8%. Nephew goes, why do you watch him Aunty? He strengthens my resolve nephew, to make a submission to Govt, for the first time ever. Now to Google how to write a submission. Katakata.

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57 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

Ngā mihi for taking a hit for the team Nick, I have to turn the tv off or change channels whenever that horrible human appears.... Glad he thinks he's going well, shame for the rest of us who have to live in the real world and put up with him and his divisive and destructive Govt (or our 3 headed taniwha!).

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54 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

I committ, from this moment on, to never watch Breakfast TV again.

What a pathetic show of journalism, !

Sooo sad!

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We should all watch it, but we need to write to RNZ Bkfst producers and complain.

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55 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

The latest press release platform - pretend it's an interview.

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43 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

Aaaaargh! Thanks Nick. Breakfast TV is for puff pieces, advertorials and cooking demos. WHY do they do serious interviews on it? If they are going to, WHY not get proper journalists to do it? I know hardly anyone watches the evening news any more, so the skewering live interviews don't happen like they used to. Remember the good old days when you couldn't tell the interviewers political views and politicians of all parties would get a good going over? You know - the fourth estate's actual job.

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That interview, together with all the ‘report cards’ from sycophantic press, made the world seem to be in an unrecoverable mess. But I WAS cheered last night by Gerard Otto’s one-year-on score card on various Ministers, if you haven’t seen it please go searching

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51 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

I got the feeling, if the camera had panned around you would have seen McKee lurking in the shadows polishing an AR-15

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29 mins agoLiked by Nick Rockel

Nick I do appreciate that you remorselessly tell it like it is: I simply would not watch Breakfast- you've reinforced that with the awful verbatim of today: I too am hugely incensed that Daniel allows himself to be prostituted to the establishment, political & media. Surely the ratings will tank them soon!!

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They’ve been muzzled by management because TVNZ is not a public broadcaster but a state-owned, commercially-funded broadcaster, depending for its existence on big-business funding. I have no doubt the editorial direction is clear; support the people who line our pockets. To be fair, Jenny May is a presenter not a journalist so she’s not trained in hard interviewing but Daniel is a former foreign correspondent and should know better. One can only assume he has a family to feed. Sorry you have to watch this drivel Nick. I stopped long ago and rely on people like you to call the buggers out for their shameless sychophancy.

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Can you send a copy of this to TVNZ? and to Daniel. He needs to know the effect his stupidity could have on the nation. It makes me furious to think of Luxon performing like a monkey like this. So sad for our country. Of all our PMs he is the absolute worse and running the country against NZ values. A very good article written by Matthew Hooten last week on how bad Luxon is.

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Oh please save us from this mendacious, twaddle spouting PM who uses phrases like constructively dissatisfied. Agree that Breakfast the news and seven sharp are nothing more than Govt propaganda nowadays while the only constructive views come from posts like yours Nick and all those independent sources out there. Such a pity many more people weren’t reading and listening to these. It’s way past time a balance was restored. Coincidentally where do they lock up John Campbell?

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Ummm errr - nope, for once words fail me ... and you've just confirmed the wisdom of my habit of never watching breakfast TV, I admire your inner strength to do so Nick!

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