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Speaker 1: I reckon there should be a rule and the rules

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Speaker 1: around balance. Part of the media's demise is it's on

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Speaker 1: fairness and coverage, the latest example of which is the

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Speaker 1: school lunch program. Right, we've got a smattering of coverage.

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Speaker 1: When I say smattering, I found two things yesterday too,

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Speaker 1: one by Radio and New Zealand, who have the same

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Speaker 1: stats as story number two, which is by the Herald

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Speaker 1: Radio New Zealand. Once they produced the stats in their story,

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Speaker 1: clearly couldn't help themselves given it was a good news story,

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Speaker 1: so they went and found a miserable principle to moan

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Speaker 1: some more about the lunch program. Their moan was given

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Speaker 1: the previous moaning didn't work and things weren't going back

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Speaker 1: to the way they were. They must have given up.

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Speaker 1: The numbers, by the way, for the school lunch program

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent plus delivery each day, complaints are down

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Speaker 1: by ninety two percent, students positive feedback through the roof. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Herald story contained term three testing news new meals

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Speaker 1: with students in the trial, posting a seventy three percent

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Speaker 1: positive feedback. Now, by any standards, these numbers are a

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Speaker 1: success story. Where there was trouble at the start, the

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Speaker 1: trouble was fixed, so fairness very little The gover did

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Speaker 1: this year got more media attention than school lunches. TV

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Speaker 1: in particular went to town on it, night after night after night,

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Speaker 1: melting plastic, burnt kids, shots of mush, finger pointing union reps,

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Speaker 1: delivery delays. It was a feeding frenty and the media

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Speaker 1: were in boots and all. So where are they now? Ah,

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Speaker 1: Apart from two stories, where are they now? We've got

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Speaker 1: stats and detail, we have a fix. We have happy

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Speaker 1: kids and do remember other reason for it all in

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Speaker 1: the first place is we have money saved and a

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Speaker 1: lot of it. Not just money saved, but more kids

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Speaker 1: actually getting fed. So as an exercise we are doing

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Speaker 1: more with less and the recipients are happy. So where

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Speaker 1: are the stories? Where's the balance? Where's the fairness? So

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Speaker 1: my rule should be minute for minute, colomage for colomage.

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Speaker 1: If you love the pileon, you've got to be back

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Speaker 1: to present the end result. You have to do the

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Speaker 1: right thing. You have to provide the other side, the balance,

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Speaker 1: the outcome. If you don't, then the charge of buyers

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Speaker 1: sticks it. You look like an attention seeking clickbait warrior

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Speaker 1: and you'll please for value of journalism fall flat. For

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