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Ask not for whom the Bellamy tolls…

by Gareth September 9, 2009

TV3′s Sunrise programme featured an interview with David Bellamy this morning. You can watch it here, and read TV3′s story here. The bewhiskered botanist, in NZ to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the battle to save the Whirinaki forest, cut a rather sad figure, I thought, as the presenters gave him a chance to run [...]

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TV3 on track this time

by Bryan Walker July 6, 2009

I was quick to condemn TV3 news for its gratuitous introduction of denialist claims into its item last week on the Greenpeace ship Esmeralda’s  Pacific climate impact tour.  It’s a pleasant duty to be equally quick to report that their story tonight on Oxfam’s concerns at the suffering of northern Ugandans from the effects of [...]

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TV3 needs to take stock

by Bryan Walker June 30, 2009

TV3 news hit one of its lows last night.  Reporter and presenter Samantha Hayes was in Aitutaki in the Cook Islands for the visit of Greenpeace’s ship the Esmeralda on its Pacific climate impact tour, with Sign On ambassador Keisha Castle Hughes on board [Greenpeace release]. I was watching the news item with interest when [...]

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