More Election Thoughts – Jack Tame in particular

Some headlines described the Jack Tame/Winston Peters interview as a train wreck – suggesting it was a train wreck for Winston Peters. I disagree. From my perspective it was a train wreck for Tame. His interviews are time and again riddled with gotcha questions and constant interruptions. Tame pursues the age old interviewer’s trick of not asking a question without knowing the answer in advance - then accusing the interviewee of being ignorant or ill-prepared. All in order to make Tame look good.

Tame’s goal was to go all out in goading Peters to react badly. Certainly Peters is well known for his combative style and he can be relied on to provide a tetchy reply if provoked. The interview was basically a hit job and ambush of Peters, and Peters described it as such in a later news item. During the interview Peters accused Tame of conducting a vindictive interview. Peters might have been caught out somewhat in accusing Tame of being corrupt. He might have been better off to have applied a semi-parallel descriptive such as unethical or underhand.

Immediately after the Peters session Tame interviewed the Greens leader James Shaw. Here we saw an almost gentlemanly conversation. Tame pushed Shaw on a few points but without any of the same rudeness and arrogance shown earlier to Peters.

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Anonymous said…
Unsurprising from Tame, the nasty little worm. Typical of the entire New Zealand “journalism” industry, where it’s about opinion over fact, pushing agendas over reporting the news. All a symptom of an industry now full of indoctrinated graduates whose heads are so full of Marxist doctrine they wouldn’t see reality no matter how good their vision. Don’t get me started on the “balanced” post debate panels for the first two leaders debates. At least TV1 got the message and had Paula Bennett for the third and final debate, but simply not acceptable that the first two debates had absolutely no centre-right views. Despicable are New Zealand’s media for sure.
October 13, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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