5 Jul 2007 - posted by 5:00AM Thursday July 05, 2007
In Tuesday night's One News report on the legal resolution reached between fashion designers Trelise Cooper and Tamsin Cooper, reporter Juliet McVeigh continually referred to the Arrowtown designer as Tasman - as in the big sea between New Zealand and Australia, as in the Dutch explorer, as in the national park. As if the poor woman hadn't suffered enough with the fight to use her own name, only to have the national news bastardise her moniker on TV. No one in the news team picked up on it, but after the story anchor-boy Simon Dallow noticeably squirmed.
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