Fair amount of email traffic on this and I’m sure it will be taken up but in the interim couldn’t put it much better than Bomber on Tumeke.
Fair amount of email traffic on this and I’m sure it will be taken up but in the interim couldn’t put it much better than Bomber on Tumeke.
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It’s creepy, it’s partisan, it’s unfair.
I think they should modify the ad, he could be alternating between parliament and Dipton, and at the end of the ad the Dipton background collapses to reveal his flash wellington home.
better not be my tax dollars paying for that! oh thats right – they don’t ask – they take, plunder and spin it with pr. lucky us.
Trev – are they able to do this – or is it political ’spamming’?
“Us Kiwis can do it” – cringe.
I agree, Darien. I can take a bit of National propaganda, but the bad grammar makes me want to scream. It’s an embarrassment!
The ad was so peurile and so obviously a promo for Bill English (forget the housing scandal – he’s a nice bloke really! Give me a break!) and the National Party that I couldn’t believe my eyes. The idea that that nice Mr.English could exolain anything plainly is a joke – isn’t it? Take it off the air 7! You disgrace yourself.
Bomber has an interesting theory on what is driving the TVNZ7 government propaganda. For my money, and it is my money because TVNZ7 is 100 percent taxpayer funded, the promo, or propmo, is an exercise in Orwellian state mind control that would make Fox News blush. When I first saw it, I genuinely thought for a second that it was a party political broadcast on behalf of the National party, until I remembered there isn’t an election until 2011. I would like to know how the various decisions to run this insult to pluralism were made, and who made them, and who influenced them? Remember, this is coming out of the ‘news and current affairs’ department at TVNZ, the folks who bring us One News, and which used to at least able to claim to be independent. No longer, sadly.
A major part of govtagencies advertising is at least partically to also promo the govt and to reinforce all that “Good Stuff” the govt is doing.
Just that Nats have been cost cutting, without the requirement of some Aust actress to front up, we have a politician (I take it at no charge)that is saving costs to us tax payers. Good to see the Nats actions supporting their words.
I dunno, I’d rather see a starving actress get work than have a freebie from English. It’s also a freebie campaign ad for the National party.
I dunno Spud, it costs a lot of money to make an advert.-any
advert. So who paid for TVNZ7’s advert? In effect, the National Party did using tax-payer’s money. It’s called theft when anyone else does it.
Burglar Bill!
It will come as no surprise to you Trev that I like this ad. I think it shows the Hon. Mr. English as a normal person. Sure the tax-payer has paid for it but we pay for every other ad on TVNZ7 what’s so wrong with this one?? All though you might not like Bill as a person he is only advertising for TVNZ7, imagine the scandal you would create, Trevor, if they’d hired someone to do it! Once again labour is being lazy and hypocritical therefore proving to the public what a great day November 8 was.
This isn’t about liking or disliking Bill English, this is about having an ad that promotes the National Party, promoting political parties is not the job of TVNZ7 and the tax payer shouldn’t be footing the bill.
Why would Trevor create a scandal if they hired an actor for the TVNZ7 ad? There’d be no problem if the ad was non partisan.
I don’t understand that lazy and hypocritical remark. Especially the lazy remark, a lazy party wouldn’t have bothered to mention it as they would have been too busy boozing up and celebrating this weekend.
I’m sure the Electoral Commission was just welcome a complaint … they’re probably missing the excitement
Is this some sort of reverse psychology national party promo for the 3 Rs?… look, if the minister of finance can’t speak proper “us kiwis” don’t need to learn read’n and right’n, just rithm’tic and rorting!
Or did TVNZ put this on to make bill look a bit (more) silly and he failed to spot the joke?