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Andrew Dickens: My thoughts on the new Post editor · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now, there's a lot of people who think the media
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  Speaker 1: are a left wing lobby group, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who think that Stuff is the leftiest of
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  Speaker 1: them all. So explain to me why Stuff has just
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  Speaker 1: appointed Matthew Houghton as the new editor of The Post,
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  Speaker 1: apparently after he was shoulder tapped by Shanee Boucher. So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't his idea, it was hers. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Post said yesterday about their new editor, Matthew Houghton.
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  Speaker 1: Hooton CV includes being a young nat a press secretary
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  Speaker 1: in the Bulger government, as strategist for Nashal during the
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  Speaker 1: Don Brash years, an advisor for ACT, a strategic consultant
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  Speaker 1: for EWE Banks, most corporate sectors, government departments and the
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  Speaker 1: ultra rich. And he even had a short lived stint
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  Speaker 1: as Wayne Brown's advisor. Now, does that sound like a
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  Speaker 1: lefty to you? Does that sound like a socialist? Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: to me? If you read Matthew, and if you meet Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: and I have and I do, you'll know he has
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  Speaker 1: one of the clearest understandings of how power works in
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  Speaker 1: this country, both left and right politically and at a
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  Speaker 1: corporate level, and even into May and I think this
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  Speaker 1: is interesting is about how we define people on their politics.
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  Speaker 1: I think people in this country are far too quick
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  Speaker 1: to generalize. I think a lot of people don't quite
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  Speaker 1: understand politics. They don't understand the difference between left and right,
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  Speaker 1: often confusing them between conservative and liberal, and the difference
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  Speaker 1: that you're asked them about the difference between demand side
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  Speaker 1: and supply economics, and well you get a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of confusion, but that people will swear that the right wing.
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  Speaker 1: I've grown frustrated at hearing supposedly right as people demanding
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  Speaker 1: government intervention, not realizing that they're straying out of the lane.
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  Speaker 1: And these are the same people who go all the
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  Speaker 1: media's left wing and they're not. All the media is
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  Speaker 1: biased and it's not anyway. Here's Matthew Houghton and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the editor at the Post. The Post
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  Speaker 1: is on a big growth path at the moment. I
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  Speaker 1: actually think this is a genius move by Shine Boucher.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to come up with some great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be a journalist, he just has
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  Speaker 1: to have a good brain. At Matthew Houghton has a
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  Speaker 1: good brain. So let the ructions begin. For more from
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