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Duncan Greive: Spinoff founder on Steven Joyce being nominated as an NZME board candidate · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now looks like Stephen Joyce, the former National Party minister,
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  Speaker 2: is set to be the new chair of NZB, which
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  Speaker 2: is the company that owns news Talk ZB. He's been
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  Speaker 2: nominated as a compromise to settle a month's long boardroom
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  Speaker 2: stash that's been going on. Duncan Greeb is the founder
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  Speaker 2: of the spin off as a media commentator and with us. Now, Hey, Duncan, Heather,
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  Speaker 2: does it look to you like a done deal?
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  Speaker 3: I would never say this saga as long as it's
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  Speaker 3: run as a dune deal. But it looks like a
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  Speaker 3: really smart, adroit bit of maneuvering that should be a
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  Speaker 3: done deal. Why Well, because I guess as a compromise candidate,
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  Speaker 3: it would be very hard for the insurgents Grennan and
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  Speaker 3: Balka and those kind of shareholders who've been grumpy about
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the sort of both the governments and
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  Speaker 3: particularly the journalism of ended me to kind of have
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  Speaker 3: an issue with Joyce given his background both politically but
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  Speaker 3: also in media, but also he's such a known quantity
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  Speaker 3: to New Zealand through his role in the previous national government,
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  Speaker 3: which is a much more popular one than the current one.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, it just looks like if you're
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  Speaker 3: going to pick anyone out of this country to kind
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  Speaker 3: of tie a bow on this thing in a way
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  Speaker 3: that maybe it's not what everyone wanted but everyone can
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  Speaker 3: live with it, Joyce would be your guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you could do worse, couldn't you, Because I
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  Speaker 2: mean the man knows radio through and.
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  Speaker 3: Through, he really does. I know, he was basically the
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  Speaker 3: architect of what became Media Works and did that from
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  Speaker 3: the ground up, so really really sharp visionary, really media mind.
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  Speaker 3: But also I think because he was part of the
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  Speaker 3: sort of kitchen cabinet of that government for so long,
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  Speaker 3: understands the relationship between politics and media, which are so
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  Speaker 3: central to this dispute and where you have to hold
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  Speaker 3: and where you have to give. You know, I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a sort of an underlying pragmatism to the key
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  Speaker 3: government that should be you know, acceptable to everyone. Because
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  Speaker 3: the big fear that people had was that Grennan's people
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  Speaker 3: were going to kind of push it beyond what you know,
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  Speaker 3: has to be a broad mainstream brand. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: push it beyond what was acceptable to that.
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  Speaker 2: So Chris Hopkins has said today it will draw into
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  Speaker 2: question their editorial stance if Stephen Joyce was to become
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  Speaker 2: the chair. Do you think it will?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a bit of a fascical comment, just
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  Speaker 3: given the sort of history of political appointees to boards. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know all. You know, obviously media is a specific thing,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, there is so much of you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's government boards or the sort of post politics
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  Speaker 3: life of politicians where there are political elements that they
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  Speaker 3: have to navigate far more complex scenarios than this. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, it doesn't seem like a particularly plausible statement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so either.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, dunk And it's good to talk to you. I
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  Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: As always, It's.
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  Speaker 2: Dunk and Grieves, the spinoff founder and also media commentator.
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