More Interviews.

Congratulations, on your interview with Russell Marshall. More of this, and less of the usual 'bullshit' will, I believe, make "Salient" more worthwhile to read. Don't stop here. There are other valuable people who your paper may care to interview, thus giving students a good Insight that they may not otherwise gain. So much for the compliments now the criticism!!

I believe you unfairly let your bias show in the introduction. You say "we were sadly disappointed to find that he approached the interview as a member of the Labour Party and nothing much else." This comment points up your naivety of politics, when one has read the article. No Labour Party Politician, let alone their Education spokesman is going to say when speaking on Bursaries — "I'm not sure that if we were the Government that we would do much more for you than the present Government is doing." Reality will tell you that Political Parties in N.Z. always offer something better than the other side — look at the statements in '75 and wait until '78. and see what they say then.

Other comments such as "I was hoping you wouldn't ask me that" only serve to point up that your introductory comment was unjustified and that Russell Marshall was attempting to be honest and truthful — something very few N.Z. M.P.s ever do!! I think the interview shows that underneath the Connelly's, Walls, Muldoons, and Gills of the N.Z. Parliamentary scene there are those who offer some glimmer of hope such as Russell Marshall. A paper such as yours should be encouraging them not knocking them. We need to stimulate him to give his best within his limits and support him when he does so; not expect him to move mountains in a day, (which seems to be your attitude!)