Kate Hawkesby: Media need to stop letting press conferences be a gloat party for Labour

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 23, 2022 · 3m

I said yesterday that I thought the PM would use the opportunity to bang on about two years of Covid and our response and sure as eggs, she did. Is anyone still buying into this – as John Key rightly called it, ‘dog and pony show?’

Is anyone still subscribing to the PR spin and bollocks that’s spewing out of these press conferences? I mean I know dyed in the wool Jacinda lovers, like my mother, will forever – no matter what she does or says – applaud her every word, but seriously, it’s getting beyond a joke.

Yesterday we needed a specific piece of information. Media gathered, dutifully and…