Garner interviewed
April 3rd, 2010 at 10:39 am by David FarrarA very amusing interview of Duncan Garner by Michele Hewitson. An extract:
So, I’ll tell you what he had to drink: the best part of a bottle of wine and five beers, plus two more after I left. Northing would give me greater pleasure than to be able to tell you he was rolling, and indiscreet.
Alas, the only discernable effect was that his cheeks turned a fetching shade of pink (which exactly matched his shirt) and he swore more, but no great surprise there, now, is there?
Duncan can hold his piss.
He’d sent an email suggesting we book the table under Mark Sainsbury’s name, so as to get star treatment.
Now that is a good idea.
He is relentlessly competitive. He talks about going head-to-head with his great mate and competitor, Guyon Espiner, at TVNZ, like the sports journo he used to be: “We’re here to knock each other out.” I asked about a rumour that he and Espiner collude on story angles which earned me one of his eruptions: “Complete crap. It’s bullshit. I’ve heard this rumour. It comes from print hacks.”
Both TV and print bosses hate it when one of their competitors runs an exclusive, which they didn’t have.
April 3rd, 2010 at 11:09 am
Of course he can hold his piss, hes full of it.
Hes also a fine example of the very poor standard of jouralism in this country.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 11:39 am
love this part ; ” he’s so competitive that he’d even take being the least liked as a victory”
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 11:47 am
Shame hes not as dedicated to concepts of journailism or journalistic integrity.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 11:57 am
Before reading this ad for TV3 “interview” I had no idea who this fellow Garner was.
Now I just don’t care.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 11:57 am
The Herald appears to be sliding further down the hill on a weekly basis. What utter threadbare rubbish.
Garner’s only claim to fame was his airing of [nut} Kees Keiser’s “super snooper” tapes. The man is a pathetic excuse for a journalist.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 1:10 pm
At least we don’t have to watch the fat twit standing in front of the Angelina Jolie pic anymore when he is giving Helen Clarke a verbal tongue bath.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
His tounge was so far up Helen he could report what she had for breakfast Bill.
If he did he’s call it “news” anyway.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
So far up himself he’s lost the map.
Vote:April 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Dunc is a legend in his own mind – just another repeater who deludes himself that we are more interested in what he thinks than the facts of a news story.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
He can hold it to a point – but then keeps going anyway. Have seen Garner in some shocking states…
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