idbkiwi: Breaking All the Rules

It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that public broadcaster RNZ ‘News’ gave significant editorial space for the acting head of a governmental organisation to openly criticise the Government with a politically skewed and misconstrued rant the day after the budget announcements. This was made worse when the individual, Ms Whaipooti of the Human Rights Commission, was given the opportunity to repeat her tropes and fibs on air on ‘Saturday Morning’s segment.