Pankhurst retiring as Dom Post editor
February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pm by David FarrarThe Dom Post reports its editor, Tim Pankhurst, is retiring:
Mr Pankhurst, 54, has been editor of The Dominion Post since shortly after its founding in 2002.
He previously edited The Evening Post, The Press and the Waikato Times.
His 14-year tenure running those four titles made him New Zealand’s longest-serving daily editor.
The Fairfax Media CEO said:
“His work on stories such as the Louise Nicholas investigation and The Dominion Post’s work last year on funding questions around NZ First have had a significant impact on New Zealand society. They are among the most significant newspaper investigations of the past 20 years and are testament to Tim’s skill and courage as an editor.
I agree, that his backing of staff such as Phil Kitchin, has been the newspaper at its finest. In the reporting of Donna Awatere-Huata, Lousie Nicholas and of course Winston, the Dom Post has had to endure masses of legal threats, but refused to back down.
Pankurst has a new job CEO of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association:
In his new role – which he will take up in mid-April – he will represent the newspaper industry, and manage the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) and the National Advertising Bureau (NAB).
I have to say this is aa good move. Pankhurst has been one of the braver media people when it comes to issues of free speech. His publishing of the Danish Mohammed cartoons had even the PM trying to heavy him. And he even managed to get away with publishing details of the Urewera 17 case.
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February 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Tim “Emmeline” Pankhurst most of the time epitomises what people like Redbaiter and I say about the media. I agree that he was brave and good to buck the P.C. trend on the Mahommed cartoons, and there have been other flashes of hope now and again. But you can bet that when there are issues of political debate where we have right wing conservative or free market arguments begging to be heard, “Emmeline” would only tolerate so much; if he suffered them any space in his rag, he always gave the last word to Chris Trotter or someone of his ilk. If you ever saw something from the “right”, Lindsay Mitchell, say, you could bet it was a set-up for a whole lot of counter arguments from the Left, to which the “right” would never get the right of further response. If there was a column allowed from a AGW “denier”, you could bet it was a similar set-up. Same for anyone defending Israel, or defending George W. Bush.
I do not give him any credit for publishing the details of the Urewera 17 case when he did. He should have left it till after the trial. Pre-empting the trial took the heat right off the Clark government and their incompetent antiterror legislation. I suspect that publication was actually endorsed by the Beehive for this reason.
The DomPost’s total whiteout on any issues broken by Ian Wishart is nothing short of a national disgrace in a free democracy where the media are supposed to act as watchdogs.
Also utterly betraying the editorial position of the DomPost, is their giving of a primary position, every time a “Christian” point of view is sought, to an openly lesbian trendy new age marxist environmentalist “minister” who does not even believe in the divinity, resurrection, or sacrifice for sins, of Jesus Christ. Another pointed exposure of hypocrisy, was Pankhurst’s condemnation of “christianity’s equivalent to the Taliban” in NZ, followed a few months later by his visit to Iran and a series of articles in which he painted a glowing picture of how happy everybody seemed to be under the amputating, stone-’em, string-’em-up-high Mullahs……..! Barf.
But the media establishment is so stacked today, that it will be perfectly possible to get worse than Pankhurst by way of replacement.
Vote:February 26th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
All the best to Tim Pankhurst. Yes, he did a damned good job sticking his neck out on all those occasions.
And PhilBest, why not get Graham Capill to apply for the DomPost editor’s job? By your reckoning, he couldn’t be worse than Pankhurst.
Vote:February 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Well said Phil.
Vote:February 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
What? Farrar praising a leader of “The MSM”?!?
They’re all supposed to dirty commie sycophants, and the friends, stooges and accomplices of the left aren’t they?
I guess with a good man like Pankhurst gone, the long march towards global socialism and the complete indoctrination of the masses takes a step forward. Eh, Phil? Eh, Baiter?
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 5:32 am
Forcot the peoplenthat gought tge Dominion and kept him in a jub
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Zippy Gonzales said:
“……PhilBest, why not get Graham Capill to apply for the DomPost editor’s job? By your reckoning, he couldn’t be worse than Pankhurst…..”
Every time some slimy antichristian liberal throws Graham Capill at us, I am going to say THIS:
Graham Capill’s chances of political rehabilitation in the next decade or three, stem entirely from the continued success of the cancerous advance of slimy secular antichristian moral relativist liberalism. It is YOU lot who are the natural political home and refuge for the “man-boy love association” slimeballs and the Kinseyite creeps. Don’t think there aren’t people in your political parties and stacked bureaucracies who aren’t beavering away to this end. And it will be the “Christian Fundamentalists” who will fight these people every inch of the way, and it will be the “Christian fundamentalists” who will always condemn what Graham Capill did irrespective of what perversion YOUR team succeeds in bringing to the moral judgements of “mainstream” society meanwhile.
Vote:March 10th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I can only echo Redbaiter — well said Phil.
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