National Party MP Simeon Brown complaints against TVNZ staff for aggressively pursuing an MP's office late at night, citing breaches of parliamentary rules and public expectations for ethical journalism, while also highlighting concerns over declining gas reserves and the impact
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Again, I'm not going to go into who was there, but there was political staff from the TVNZ political team, and they chased Stuart Smith down a corridor and he went into his office, he declined an interview. They stood there, they remained there for some time, banging on his door, asking him to come out for an interview. They then pressured him into an interview saying, well, effectively that if he didn't come out, things would be reported worse the next day. And ultimately, it breaks the rules of Parliament. One, political journalists can't chase members of Parliament down corridors if they decline to be interviewed. And secondly, they can't interview members of Parliament outside their offices without express permission from that member of Parliament. And this type of behaviour is not acceptable, and ultimately we're calling it out. We've lodged a complaint with TVNZ because New Zealanders expect political journalists and political editors to report the facts, to present the case, but ultimately what we're seeing here is behaviour which I think most New Zealanders would say is unacceptable.
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