Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 10, 2024 15:36:43 GMT 12
Graham Adams: LOW-CALIBRE HIT JOBS ON SEYMOUR MISS MARK.
Although he said he welcomed the letter being made public because it raises “some of the debates New Zealand needs to have”, Seymour wasn’t impressed with the proposition that self-declared “experts” should be the ultimate arbiters of the parameters of the conversation.
Seymour returned to his fundamental question — Whatever the Treaty says or doesn’t say, can New Zealand continue to prosper as a nation if some citizens, by accident of birth, enjoy more civic and political rights than others?
Clarkson made it clear she didn’t want to enter that debate. She wanted to keep the interview firmly focused on the translators’ letter. And for very good reason. Seymour has posed a killer question — and journalists know it......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/07/graham-adams-low-calibre-hit-jobs-on.html
Although he said he welcomed the letter being made public because it raises “some of the debates New Zealand needs to have”, Seymour wasn’t impressed with the proposition that self-declared “experts” should be the ultimate arbiters of the parameters of the conversation.
Seymour returned to his fundamental question — Whatever the Treaty says or doesn’t say, can New Zealand continue to prosper as a nation if some citizens, by accident of birth, enjoy more civic and political rights than others?
Clarkson made it clear she didn’t want to enter that debate. She wanted to keep the interview firmly focused on the translators’ letter. And for very good reason. Seymour has posed a killer question — and journalists know it......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/07/graham-adams-low-calibre-hit-jobs-on.html