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To Paul Thompson and RNZ's senior staff

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jun 15
  • 1 min read

Look, after Michelle's brutal beating, you have to call a moratorium on threatening me. No more 'stow ed away' -- editor's tricks = intentional aggravation to piss me off. My bulge isn't illegal and your bigotry is. - Steve Barr and Christopher Luxon are suspects in a front line investigation. The NZ Police have good reason to believe that they have systemically harassed me. RNZ is going to have to admit some level of involvement, but please pin it on them. I don't blame the majority of the editors or journalists: I blame the top brass. - You all took Disney's side because Steve Barr told you to. Do you feel differently now that Sir Paul and Michelle were taken hostage? Don't pretend otherwise, Mr. Thompson. I'm gunning for you if you can't behave. It's simple: stop now or join Mr. Barr in a dingy prison cell. I know you're used to routinely turning headlines and stories into a way to bully me, but that must stop at this point. I'm not going to react like a psycho, so give up. I want to read the news, not some smartarse editor who thinks they're above me. - Can I get an ironclad agreement that no RNZ employee will harass me again? Can I get an ironclad agreement that Wellington PR companies will do likewise? Those will occur at my hui, but I want the healing to start immediately. No further harassment = reasonable plea deals.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jun 15

Seriously, think about the hours of valuable time you've wasted to threaten me to no avail. It must be hundreds or thousands of hours at this point... it's not improving RNZ. Believe me, Mr. Thompson is leaving because his decision not to hire me was an error. The whole point was to bring a trans reporter into the fold to avoid further fuck-ups, and he wouldn't even provide a handshake apology to make me believe that they were sincere. I don't blame RNZ's lawyers: I blame the CEO. He announced his departure internally a few months later, after I took to Facebook to criticise him and his smarmy bullshit. - RNZ's editors thought that was genius. They don't think I'm evil or incompetent. I'm a highly competent editor…

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