Big Time Wrestling with Duncan and Gerry
Posted by BE on March 28th, 2010

WWE WrestleMania
Watched the second episode of The Nation. Two fairly simple conclusions: Stephen Parker can’t chair; Duncan Garner can’t interview.
Parker was completely unable to rein in Radio Live’s Mitch Harris, who seemed to think that the best form of interview is where the interviewee is not allowed to answer the question.
Garner’s interview with Gerry Brownlee exemplified the scattergun approach to cross-examination where you fire at random in the hope that one of your projectiles will hit the mark.
Duncan’s interview philosophy appears to have three aims: to demonstrate that he is a fearsome interrogator; to show that he is a mate and the equal of the person he is interviewing; and to score a few headlines in tomorrow’s papers. Read the rest of this entry »