MEDIAWATCH: You would crucify Maiki Sherman in this manner, if you wanted to privatise TVNZ
Is this really about Maiki Sherman, or part of a wider push to weaken TVNZ ahead of privatisation?

Is this really about Maiki Sherman, or part of a wider push to weaken TVNZ ahead of privatisation?

Was it journalism, or just another bad faith political hit job? Heather du Plessis-Allan’s latest take has Martyn calling bullshit.

Barry Soper spent decades dishing it out. Now one 16-year-old grudge has made him look like the most fragile man in New Zealand media.

Christopher Luxon ditching TVNZ’s Breakfast after tough interviews with Tova O’Brien looks like panic, and in politics, weakness gets stomped.

Barry Soper once had mana. Then Jacinda broke his brain, ZB fed the fever, and now he’s a cautionary tale for every culture war Boomer.

Breakfast TV gave NZ Initiative hawks a free pass to push military alignment with America — with zero challenge.

If you bankroll the fight, should you also pay the bill when it collapses?

Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.
Buy, sell, hold — that’s the conversation. Not what it does. Not who it serves. Just the money.

The Police Commissioner says nothing was hidden. The emails suggest otherwise — and the deeper this goes, the worse it looks.