Linda Bryder, Twitter and timing

One of the speakers this morning was Linda Bryder who was speaking on the response to her book, A History of the "Unfortunate Experiment" at National Women's Hospital. I don't know much about this and have no opinion either way. However, there was a response on Twitter to it. I thought a couple of the comments should have been fairly easy to verify and thought I'd look into it.

So, the claims/challenge;

Bryder claims she got no right of reply in mainstream media coverage of her book on unfortunate experiment #nzskeptic
about 4 hours ago via OpenBeak

@smcnz Bolocks - Bryder made sure the first Listener story came out before others even got to see her paper #unprofessional
about 4 hours ago via web in reply to smcnz

@kaupapa #TheListener approached her. She had no input about its release. #NZSkepCon
about 2 hours ago via twidroid in reply to kaupapa

@unifex and how would the Listener know to approach her exactly? Tipped off by whom?
about 2 hours ago via web in reply to unifex

@unifex uh huh - and appearing on RadioNZ before publication was just a coincidence too #tosh
about 2 hours ago via web in reply to unifex

I offered to ask the question on behalf of @kaupapa and the question boiled down to "how was it that the first Listener story came out before others even got to see her paper?"

Ten minutes with Google turned up the following result;
Book published - Aug 01
Radio interview - Aug 14
The Listener article from interview - Aug 15

The claim doesn't seem to stand up. There was at least 2 weeks between release and interviews.

I'm happy to update this is anyone finds any evidence to the contrary. Please provide links.