He’s claiming
“I subbed several stories that way over the past number of years,” journalist Michael Hall told Checkpoint.
“In fact since I started RNZ and … I have done that for five years and nobody has tapped me on the shoulder and told me that I was doing anything wrong.”
I took an introductory journalism class years ago. It wasn’t even Journalism 101 it was like the precursor to that and literally the first thing we went into was bias.
This guy absolutely knew what he was doing.
Surely he’s going with the “any publicity is good publicity” angle. Why the hell else would he be fine with his name (admittedly very generic name) getting into the google search results?
Dude may not understand the vast majority of NZ doesn’t agree with him, it’s hard to know really.
It’s hard to google him as you’ll either get results for Dexter/Six Feet Under or The Breakfast Club.