Farewell to Good Morning: 14 months of not much at all
No more Good Morning for yours truly. As some of you know from the private posts here at Vox, I felt that things haven’t been right with the show for some time. I probably stayed a lot longer than I wished, primarily because I had a pretty good rapport with my co-presenters.
Those of you who’ll choose to listen to my little voice post at left will get filled in on the nitty-gritty—which has not been denied or disputed by TVNZ. And I do have a photographic memory that is better than most people’s.
At the beginning, I agreed to go on the show to promote my work, and my right to do this was taken away gradually. The interesting thing is that Good Morning never managed to contribute to my profile: I had a lot more press coverage before I was on the show. Now free of Good Morning, I have noticed things such as invitations to speak and other public appearances have increased domestically.
Good Morning, with hindsight, never fulfilled my motivations—and actually caused the opposite. The invasions into my privacy—the subject of written complaints and telephone conversations by me—were, at the end of the day, inappropriate and dealt with unfairly.
I stressed to the producer, Sally-anne Kerr, in my request to have my contract terminated, that I did not hold her personally accountable. I believe she had had her hands tied by those further up the food chain.
However, there is no hard and fast rule that says that if you appear on TV, you open yourself up to public inquiry. As I said at the beginning of this month, I am no Judy Bailey (even if some people took that the wrong way). I’m just a regular bloke who did between eight and seventeen minutes of live TV a week, on a show that even I did not watch, except in review situations.
I thank those who read the private posts for their support and their vows to never watch Good Morning again!
You will likely see me or one of the team on C4 in New Zealand next month anyway, while Lucire’s US editor Summer Rayne Oakes continues her media exposure. Stefan Engeseth recently was on TV in Göteborg. So we are continuing to be out there, doing things that are far more relevant to the work that we are trying to do at Jack Yan & Associates. Good Morning, sadly, was very incompatible with that: it came to symbolize the trivial in my life, and even the annoying.
Perhaps unlike Judy Bailey and other people who are actually known by the general public, I don’t want the gig back—so please don’t take my posting as anything but fuelled by my usual desire to share with readers. Except it is regulated by me—not through prodding. Most of you came to my blogs through my real work, not through TV, but I did feel I owed some explanation to those who did come via the show.
And for those who came via my work, I have always advocated transparency in organizations.
