Richard Prebble: The honeymoon was over before the marriage certificate was signed

A neighbour last week asked me did I think TV One news was biased against the new government? I replied, “absolutely”.

One can take a typical news bulletin such as last Sunday. The 6 o’clock news led with a Pharmacy Guild’s poll that said we like free medicine. This was not news. TV One news on 13 November had already run a Guild funded survey supporting free prescriptions. Chemists would rather bill the taxpayer than their customers.