tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post7669359010496785140..comments2023-11-01T04:14:15.636+12:00Comments on Intelligentsiya: Michael Field RebuttalChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01291952121795963341noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-52726610316377663462010-03-11T16:08:14.983+13:002010-03-11T16:08:14.983+13:00I don't normally go seek out blogs, but this o...I don't normally go seek out blogs, but this one promised to be attractive because it was supposed to have a quality response from one who (until recent times) had a pretty solid reputation. <br />The pernicious piddle that Michael Field has dribbled makes me rethink a conversation I had at Auckland Airport when he was deported from Fiji. <br />My acquaintance said he'd lost it and had gone on an I-right-you-wrong stream for quite a while. He said MF is in dire straits looking for public credibility, so he was becoming venomously reactive and choosy. Now I know what he meant. <br />The depth to which MF has slided in this malicious, bitter and reactive piece makes me wonder if that happens to too many of our once-balanced media people as they slide into impotent obscurity.Phantomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221833496076674724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-15566098682926861172010-03-11T14:03:30.607+13:002010-03-11T14:03:30.607+13:00On 7 March 2008 Fiji's Solicitor-General Chris...On 7 March 2008 Fiji's Solicitor-General Christopher Pryde complained to the NZ Broadcasting Standards Authority that comments made on RadioNZ by journalist Michael Field were "no more than an uneducated, ill–informed, deeply biased, unbalanced, and false account of recent events in Fiji". The BSA accepted that Field's comments were "inaccurate" and breached normal standards. They also found his comments to be "unbalanced" but did not accept this charge because the prgramme was an opinion piece and not a discussion, and in these circumstances lack of balance [read, bias] did not constitute a breach of BSA standards. The BSA "considered publication of this decision will serve as a reminder to commentators that they must ensure the accuracy of factual statements." It would seem from Field's totally "inaccurate" and false attack on me show they were mistaken. Click here to read the full http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2008/2008-040.htm BSA statement. <br /><br />Field attacked me and not my argument, by ridicule not humour, and once again he got his facts wrong. He racially stereotyped "White chaps" working in the Pacific (hoping presumably to persuade the "natives" that he is not like the other "white chaps") and "typed" me in with them while knowing full well the vast majority of expatriates are not like those he lampooned. He attacked Nazhat Shameem by cowardly inuendo, hinting at further "information" he has on her. Put up, Michael, or shut up. And he seems to know absolutely nothing about me.I know he can no longer parachute into Fiji to check his facts, but I think he was extremely lucky not to have been more roundly chastised by the Broadcasting Standards Authority. <br /><br /><br />For Michael: <br />You are correct in saying you made no libellous comments on an Attorney-General. I should have said slander against a Solicitor-General but you knew full well the incident to which I referred. I never said you were sued, and you knew that too. In everything else you were "inaccurate" as the BSA so politely put it.<br /> <br />I do not live at a retired Kapiti Coast address or in Palmerston North. I do not attach emeritus to my name or repeatedly claim to be well published. It is you who have flaunted my academic qualifications. My blog is not, as you claim, sponsored by the Fiji Military Council, I receive no cheques from them, and it is not tax-payer funded. Contrary to what you say, I do know the routine in a newsroom. My first career was in journalism. I am not a "type" and certainly not the "type" you describe. My typical workload in Fiji exceeded 60 hours a week. My employment in Tonga, Fiji and PNG was not aid-funded. I paid tax and rent. I am not doing Bainimarama's bidding. My blog has no more anonymous comments than other blogs and, unlike your blog and most others, it allows contrary comments. I have never told "Natives what is good for them" but I do have this advice for you: note the BSA advice, get you facts right, and stop trying to win arguments, or excuse your inaccuracies, by insulting people.Crosbie Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541276600232884176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-1925930853285617942010-03-08T11:59:10.961+13:002010-03-08T11:59:10.961+13:00Yes, coup sympathiser and human rights abusing reg...Yes, coup sympathiser and human rights abusing regime supporter Lord Haw Haw Crosbie wants to dish it out to patriotic Fijiians but like his mate the Hitler of the Pacific dictator, spineless Haw Haw can't take it!!! <br />Well done Mr Field, keep up your good work against this illegal regime and its gutless coup mongering supporters. Fiji will be free again one day and the good people of Fiji will get the justice they deserve against these parasites!!!Ha Ha Haw Hawnoreply@blogger.com