JIM TUCKER: TV 3 did two interviews with employers’ federation chief Alasdair Thompson in the aftermath of his menstruation comment on radio.
Has this man opened up a debate on gender equality that any number of worthy reports by Equal Opportunities Commissioner Judy McGregor could never achieve?
In one interview, he discusses how the media “slices and dices” interview material and thereby may distort the resulting report.
Two points about that:
- He’s very experienced at dealing with the media, so what did he expect?
- By running the full interviews, has TV3 unwittingly put on display the very caprice with which media treat their interview subjects, media-wise and media-naive?
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