Penn Raine: Who should be in the naughty corner? or let's copy Oz and the US and have Parliamentary hearings

Readers who rate reality shows and those who despise them could have either their enjoyment intensified, or their prejudices debunked by watching the US and Australian senate hearings on You Tube.

We used to have the balance of an upper House, the Legislative Council but it was abolished, too soon you might argue, as no longer useful. Here in New Zealand the offices of the Auditor General and the Ombudsman may or may not, depending on whom they feel aligned to, investigate government and corporate malfeasance and having done so the public may or may not get to hear details, depending on whether or not an OIA request gets ‘lost’.