I find it hard to believe that TV1 could subject viewers to the debacle Monday evening, 31 October, which was supposed to be a debate involving John Key, Phil Goff and the presenter, Mark Sainsbury. Along with many others, including an announcer from Coast Radio next day, I gave the programme up part way through. I have always considered Mark Sainsbury to be a very inferior interviewer, and his inability to control this debate is a blatant example of his shortcomings. Perhaps, at last, the programme organisers at TV1 will recognise that drastic changes need to be made, and promptly, to the format and presentation of what has been known as ‘Close Up'.
Barry H Walker, Mt Maunganui.
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out of control debate
Posted on 13-11-2011 16:16 | By algail
You are quite right Barry about the inferiority of Sainsbury. I have as you have seen few better all as bad as each other in NZ. I travel extensively round the world as part of running my business and I find Sainsbury to be probably the worst interviewer in the world. He rarely asks intelligent questions and he rarely if ever follows up with smart answer / question that would tie the person up in knots when they say something outlandish or making a promise they cannot possibly keep. TV1 has a group of presenters from around the country that only have one real ability and that ability is to be able accentuate every syllable of every damn word with a flap of the hands. Someone must be training them to do this and I feel whoever is teaching them is one person in TVNZ that is doing his / her job well because each and every one them is an excellent annoying hand flapper. One wonders how long it will be before even the news readers will start hand flapping too. They do say a butterfly wing in Burma will cause a hurricane in America I wonder what horrendous storms these hand flappers are causing somewhere in the world. Alastair Bethlehem
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