Breaking Hearts
July 11th, 2011 at 3:26 pm by David FarrarThe Herald on Sunday reported:
Youth Affairs Minister Paula Bennett broke young hearts after a paperwork error saw her announce the wrong winner at a prestigious school acting competition.
The frontpage has now changed, but yesterday it had a big picture of the Minister and the headline was about how the Minister broke young hearts.
Bennett told a large crowd at the ASB Theatre that Cambridge school St Peter’s had won the night – but a helper had given her the wrong slip of paper. Auckland’s St Cuthbert’s were supposed to have been crowned the champions in the Auckland leg of the 2011 Stage Challenge last weekend.
So the mistake was not the Minister’s in any way. She was as much an innocent victim, as the poor kids. Yet the reporting (not so much the story, but the headlines and extracts) makes it sounds like the Minister stuffed up in some way, and made the mistake.
July 11th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
That line didn’t work for Dan Quayle, why would it work for Paul Bennett?
[DPF: You know the difference. Dan Quayle could well have independently known the correct spelling. Paula could in no way know whether the correct winner's name had been given to her]
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Lazy journalism? Yes. Liberal bias? Maybe.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
You are absolutely right. But then again almost every second headline in the HoS fundamentally misrepresents the content of the story.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
As usual, calculated to mislead.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
What do you expect? That great journalist David Fisher was the author wasn’t he? And what important NEWS the story was in the first place…
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
What goes around comes around.
Vote:Remember that time when two beneficiaries criticised the ministry of social welfare, and rather than responding to the substance of their criticisms, Bennett just publicised the value of the benefits they were receiving, and the media let her walk away scot free from this blatant ad hom?
July 11th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
My mistake…Fisher wasnt responsible for that piece of riveting journalism…
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
RRM
I am no fan of Bennett, IMHO she is another example of why this gutless government is failing to really do something about parasite beneficiaries.
However, in highlighting the two female bludgers in the way she did and just how much they are ripping off the system was possibly the one thing that she can be proud of.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Reading the headlines of the HoS and expecting balance or something that isnt sensational shite. Fail.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Storm. Teacup.
Vote:On several levels.
July 11th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
DPF is always ready to leap to the Government’s defense, even when it doesn’t really matter.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Oh thats right, the HoS is so committed to its community that it sends reporters to school play competitions.
Or mabe perhaps some teacher phoned in the “scoop”?
Any Nat should think twice before going anywhere near the teachers union, those buggers will sacrifice any number of kids to their objective of protecting their privilege.
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Definitely a PPTA conspiracy
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
What do you expect from the repeater community?
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
The antique media doing what they do best. Making those who aren’t socialist enough for their tastes look bad. Never mind that she wasn’t to blame.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:July 11th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Bed Wetter, whatever.
Vote:July 12th, 2011 at 9:05 am
Jeez – the print media exposes it’s political bias again.
Who’da thought?
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