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    Kathryn Ryan interviewed Ai Wei Wei this morning--she never mentioned his support for Assange. 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by Morrissey on November 14, 2021, 9:06 pm

    I'm disappointed but not surprised. The RNZ board is stuffed full of National Party appointees, and their influence can be perceived in the timidity and vapidity of commentators in the last few years.

    Six months ago one on those commentators, Chris Gallavin, wandered off the reservation but was quickly reined in by the producer Robert Kelly....

    ALI JONES: Here's the heading from CNN: "Tony Blair has a mullet now and it's disturbing Britain".
    WALLACE CHAPMAN: There you go! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
    CHRIS GALLAVIN: So they didn't get him on crimes against humanity for Iraq---
    WALLACE CHAPMAN: Ha ha!
    ROBERT KELLY: Hrrrmmmm.
    CHRIS GALLAVIN: ---but they're gonna get him for crimes against fashion and hair.
    ROBERT KELLY: A-a-a-a-and as a public broadcaster I'm not touching that with a pole. Aaaaahhhmm, so, [awkward laugh] hm, hm, moving on, ahhhh, we have all SORTS of things going on, but no one's actually ASKING for a mullet. So people are staying away from the word itself, but are asking for something like it, and one of the hairdressers said that, um, people are coming in and asking for a cross between a nineties shag and the harder eighties mullet. Which I have to admit is a nomenclature that escapes me. Aaaaahhmm….

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    In 2013 Kathryn Ryan and her "U.S. correspondent" carefully avoided mentioning the Chelsea Manning show trial, which was beginning on the day they spoke....
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/02/bradley-manning-show-trial-begins-in.html

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    • Kathryn Ryan interviewed Ai Wei Wei this morning--she never mentioned his support for Assange. - Morrissey November 14, 2021, 9:06 pm

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