Eye to Eye Uploaded
Press Release from Waatea News and Wakatere Media.
Eye to Eye Uploaded
Leading Maori broadcaster and
political commentator Willie Jackson previews Eye to Eye
Uploaded, a multi-platform series of interviews that he’s
aiming to put in front of media radars next year.
Eye
to Eye Uploaded will include but not be limited to hard
hitting, political interviews. Jackson says that he’s
looking forward to interviewing people whose stories have a
strong public interest.
“I’ve been a political
commentator for many years so it’s no secret that politics
is my forte. However I’m also interested in championing
those who make a difference in our communities.”
But don’t expect any soft and fuzzy interviews from
Jackson. “My style is to be fair and ask the hard
questions without denigrating the guest, unless they
absolutely deserve to be.”
In the first two
interviews which were recorded on August the 29th political
right and left wing personalities, Whale Oil Cameron Slater
and Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury.
Jackson’s punchy;
no holds barred style of interviewing is evident from the
start.
He asks Slater why he was so disrespectful to
a family whose son was killed in a car accident and why he
refused to apologise to them and the people of Christchurch
whom he called ‘scum'.
In the Bradbury interview,
Jackson challenges Bomber and his left wing mates about
their failure to condemn the “Kill the PM” song and asks
how they could minimise the effects of a song that promotes
the raping of the Prime Minister’s daughter.
Eye to
Eye Uploaded’s first two interviews make for riveting and
fascinating viewing. They will be released on Radio Waatea
News website this week.
The multi digital platform
provides more options for viewers to access the interviews
and post comments on them.
Jackson says, “I really
like it that once it’s uploaded, an interview that starts
off with just two people can almost immediately engage many
more in the
discussion.”
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