The Fiji Club of New Zealand has issued a press release calling NZ state television’s token 2 week suspension of racist presenter Paul Henry “a joke.” A TVNZ spokeswoman had initially supported Henry’s remarks by saying “The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is…
Unite Union and Global Peace and Justice Auckland have added their voices to the growing chorus of calls for TVNZ to sack their presenter Paul Henry. In a press release they highlight the problems caused in the NZ workplace by people bullied out of their jobs by the type of puerile ‘humour’ practiced by Paul…
NZPA News has tweeted: TVNZ has suspended Breakfast host Paul Henry without pay. He will return on air on Oct 18. This looks like a token effort by TVNZ to take the heat off themselves after they failed to publicly condemn Henry’s comments yesterday. For more see Racist Henry digs deeper hole Paul Henry, man…
Despite offering a weak and feeble apology this morning to the general public for not intending to sound racist, Paul Henry has dug a deeper hole for himself by making disparaging remarks about the status of European Gypsies, who are currently being persecuted in France. From today’s NZ Herald: Henry apologised yesterday if he caused…
NZ Television host Paul Henry “shocked the nation’ this morning with his ‘un-PC’ comments about the NZ governor general Sir Anand Satyanand, which happened as international attention is focused on India and the Commonwealth games. The offensive remarks were contained in a question to the Prime Minister when Mr Henry asked John Key whether Sir…
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