Fifield goes on, describing Maiki Sherman and colleague;

"They work at a company that's backed by the state, vulnerable to pressure ..."

#AnnaFifield, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70ee68b9-d637-43c9-a68d-b0ac60b813f2

What? Isn't this what Winston First et al have been saying about publicly-owned news outlets and publicly-funded journalism? Aren't there meant to be safeguards preventing that?

I wish Colin Peacock hadn't cut this off with another question, because I'd love to know where Fifield was going with that.

(7/?)

"But in this case it does seem like a really like concerted effort to 2 ... journalists at TVNZ, who are doing critical coverage of them."

#AnnaFifield, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70ee68b9-d637-43c9-a68d-b0ac60b813f2

Fifield points out earlier in the story that Ani O'Brien is not a journalist, and spreading this scuttlebutt about Parliamentary journalists a year after the fact is not journalism. Bang on. O'Brien is a female Cameron Slater and this is Dirty Politics 101 stuff.

(3/?)

"Frankly I think it's pretty outrageous that the details of the agreement were not shared in advance of ratification. Not only with the media, but with the NZ public. And I've never seen a situation where the details have not been shared and up for public discussion in advance."

#AnnaFifield, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70ee68b9-d637-43c9-a68d-b0ac60b813f2

Anna either has selective amnesia about how FTAs work or has not been paying attention, because this is standard.

(1/?)