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Why did Radio Waatea pull its interview with Clint Rickards?

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The media don’t usually go along with requests from an interviewee’s lawyers to pull a plum interview. I can’t think of any legal rule they’d be breaking by running the interview. If Rickards is breaching his agreement with the police, that’s his problem.  [Update: the interview has now been broadcast]

Sunday and the Rogers case

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Okay, I’ve seen the programme now. Interestingly, TVNZ has also posted the whole interview with Noel Rogers. Good on them for that, I think. As I’ve said all along, I think there was public interest in the videoed interview, for at least three reasons: 1. It allows us to better judge whether the Court of […]

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