Point taken, I will try to use more definite shades of grey in future labels.

The others you refer to may be left-of-centre, but the closest you get to political commentary that swings left is on scoop.

So am I. Your point is? Looks to me like you need to lose the labelling of people with little tags.

I’m radical in the things I think that need to change. Conservative in things that I don’t think need changing. Progressive where I think it will change outcomes, regressive when I think it involves transfers of resources for no significant benefit for the country.

I support Labour because they are markedly less stupid than National in one particular area. National has severe intellectual problems thinking out into the future. For that matter they seem to have a mythical view of the past as well.

People who only live in the present are either stoned or eventual victims.

This government to date has shown no ability to deal with the issues of the future. Consequently they are my victims….

What of the Exec and the Board – known leanings, active bias, proven behaviours ?

Michael – I think it boils down to whether you view the programming as having public-service merit (TVNZ7′s role), and if so, has it clearly crossed that fine line and breached the bounds of fairness and balance etc etc.

In my view, an unwise, immature and ill-advised approach to programming promotion…..always look for c*ck-up over conspiracy in TVNZ….

..you need to be smart to run conspiracy…..

- Brent Edwards, Vernon Small, and Duncan Garner are lefties

- The Espiners, Audrey Young, Tracey Watkins, John Armstrong are righties – and so are the editors of all the major dailies and the bulk of the rest of the msm political commentariat including O’Sullivan, Plunkett, Jessica Mutch etc etc, Campbell is left of course.

There’s no trick to identifying if a media personality is left or rightwing, there’s the same markers as an ordinary person.

Plus, we’ve got some rather interesting quotes from Guyon, but we’ll keep them up our sleeves for now.

Just so we can compare the merits.

Actually, change the key characters (boom, boom), change blue to red, and go back a couple of weeks and this could be a carbon copy of one of DPF’s posts that were widely derided here.

Anyway. Rodders is doing his bit to run cover.

So I think Eddie made an objective deduction in this case.

Using the picture of English is utterly bizarre. Promotion in TV is about promoting your stars, your personalities. You never put a picture of someone on anything unless you’re trying to sell it. The only conclusion is that they are promoting National.