Cameron Slater exclusively reported on allegations by long-time union leader Matt McCarten against Willie Jackson and his wife around bullying at the Manukau Urban Maori Authority. I blogged about this four days ago.
With the exception of The Platform, no media outlet has reported on the allegations. This is highly unusual. Even if you don’t think the allegations stack up, the fact a union leader is accusing a Labour MP of workplace bullying and locking a union out is newsworthy. You would expect the media would at least do a “He says, she says”.
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Could this explain the silence? But normally defamation threats make media more determined to report a story. Surely Maori TV of all places would be reporting on this?
And now we have just learnt that Stuff have known all this for weeks.
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And now we have just learnt that Stuff have known all this for weeks.
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The key thing here is that Tova doesn’t just repeat McCarten’s allegations. She says she spoken to multiple staff who all allege bullying, and they have detailed specific incidents, which have been corroborated.
That was four weeks ago. What happened to the story? Did Stuff kill it? Why?
Why has no other media outlet, bar The Platform, touched this story?
The result is trust in media declines even further.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
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