The Platform styles itself as talk-back radio committed to free speech. Yet I’ve rung them up twice now and both times my experience has been the opposite. The first time Rodney Hide could hardly hide the panic in his voice that I’d got through to him and hurriedly ended the ‘conversation’ as he said he was going to the news. Then he promptly went to another caller for a minute or two (before the news). I had about 10-15 seconds.
The second time that I rang up the Platform (this last tuesday) it was to Sean Plunket and the first thing that happened is that I had to put up with Sean Plunket lying that I’d been ringing up and abusing their staff in the hour before. Unfortunately for Sean this did not scan in anyway whatsoever as I’d been on another radio station in that hour (more or less the whole hour although I wasn’t live to air the whole time). It was an astonishing attempt to hobble my campaign and there is a police complaint in about it. You can read the full story here.
