This week on Media7…

This week on Media7….

With a new government at the helm and a Prime Minister keen to make his mark on the world stage -- is New Zealand about to flex it’s small but beautifully formed military muscles?

Afghanistan is on the National Government’s radar and the news media has picked the smell of gunpowder and the call of distant bugles.

The New Zealand Herald sent its reporter Patrick Gower to Afghanistan and he returned in no doubt that America expects the kiwis to do their duty and to dispatch the NZ S.A.S. into “the sharp end” of the war against terror.

Veteran foreign correspondent and frequent traveler to the region, Jon Stephenson is less bellicose.

In his latest revelations in the Sunday Star Times, he questions the legality of past actions by the S.A.S. where captured Taliban guerillas have been handed over to the United States Military and to an uncertain fate at their hands.

It’s decision time for the government and within weeks we’ll know whether the New Zealand Defence Force will be committed to a more aggressive role than it has been playing in “capacity building” with the widely-praised deployment of a provincial re-construction team in Bamiyan Province.

Also on this week’s show we are looking at the parlous state of the music press.

It was once feisty and opinionated place for exploration of musical trends and robust criticism…But where have all the writers gone?

We catch up with some of the writers who have not gone to God, to seed or worse and find out what they’re up to and what they think of the current state of music.

Media7 host Russell Brown is joined by Duncan Grieve (Real Groove), Graham Reid (Elsewhere) and Shayne Carter (ex-journo and frontman of NZ band, Dimmer).

Media7 is recorded in front of a live audience in the TVNZ Auckland Television Centre on Wednesday evening at 6.00pm.

The show is broadcast at 9.10pm on Thursday on TVNZ 7 and is replayed several times during the week.

The show is also available at that time on Sky Channel 97.

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