Press Gallery Inaction

Well, she's in trouble at, you know, it's a frankly archaic insult, which thanks to Barry, we all know what it is now, but I'm not going to say it, but she is in trouble. And as you say, there have been other sort of rumours around stuff, but I also feel like I don't like the kind of cancel culture on either side of politics, and I don't think it's the same as an MP doing the loser sign or whatever. I think because of your media, the last thing we want for media is to be either censoring themselves and not going to attack their own or that they're not going to hold their own to account or they're not going to say things that might be unpopular. And I think the biggest problem here, Heather, is, and I heard you read out some messages from listeners, it's not that ZB hasn't followed this up, but the fact I do think it's difficult for the gallery, for the press gallery, who did nothing for about a year. The press gallery tried to... you know hose it down as you just said and I think that buys into the sort of perception that the media look after each other a bit but worse than that they're a little bit deferential to government institutions you know whether it's weather saying we're all going to have a terrible cyclone and Auckland doesn't happen where are the you know where's the sort of journalist who's going to say well hold on a minute how do you know that Mr Weatherman same with COVID right so I do think there's a There's a perception there that not just that media don't hold themselves accountable, but they also don't, they're a bit deferential to institutions. And I think that's the more damaging credibility issue.