Cindy Baxter • Jan 16, 2012 •
My inbox in the last month has filled with emails about denier articles in leading New Zealand newspapers. It’s been a veritable crank central across the country. They include the ridiculous opinion piece by Jim Hopkins in the Herald late last year, a similar feature by Bryan Leyland published in both the DomPost and The […] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Dec 18, 2011 •
There’s a terrible tyranny in being a columnist for a national newspaper, required to produce entertaining and informative copy every week. It’s a hard job, having an opinion and expressing it cogently. Some writers struggle and succeed, others strive and fail dismally. The NZ Herald — the newspaper of record for NZ’s biggest city — [...] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Apr 22, 2010 •
Another week, another load of tripe from Garth George in the Herald. He emerges from his sulphurous lair stirred by stories of volcanoes in Iceland to lend his weight to calls for the suspension of the Emissions Trading Scheme. He makes so many egregious errors that he not only makes himself look foolish, but also [...] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Feb 18, 2010 •
I suppose it was inevitable that the feeding frenzy about various “gates” in the British press would attract the attention of the wise old man of Rotorua, Garth George. In today’s Herald he emerges from his sulphurous lair to add his muted sqeak to the hubbub. It’s not much different to his last few columns [...] … Read More
Jim McVeagh • Jan 14, 2010 •
There is a fair amount of news about drug addiction at the moment, with John Key announcing a (somewhat laughable) $7 million boost for P treatment. Garth George, in one of his best columns for some time, points out that the real killer in terms of drug addictions is, of course, alcohol. He laments the [...] Related posts: … Read More
Peter Griffin • Oct 18, 2009 •
Last week again revealed one of the worst traits of the New Zealand media in its approach to covering climate change – giving people prime real estate to mouth off about climate-science realted subjects they are ill-equipped to comment on. Luckily, Herald readers aren’t as meek and gullible as Garth George estimates, as the letters from the Weekend … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Oct 15, 2009 •
According to the Rotorua Daily Post, Garth George is “a veteran newspaperman living semi-retired in Rotorua”. Garth sallies forth from time to time to lend the benefit of his wisdom on climate policy to the readers of the NZ Herald, and on Thursday Oct 8th offered the following comment on reports of tax fraud in [...] … Read More