"Marian Hobbs' evasive and misleading conduct over revelations about the cost of implementing her Charter for TVNZ was a shameful display of behaviour," National's Murray McCully said today.

"First Hobbs declared the TVNZ Report was too commercially sensitive to even discuss. Then she issued a statement saying my revelations were 'ludicrous'. Then she held a stand-up interview acknowledging my figures were in fact correctly quoted from the report.

"Now she is trying to create the impression that TVNZ has produced an updated set of figures, an impression which, according to my research, is absolutely false.

"Marian Hobbs has suppressed the TVNZ Report for four months, then tried to weasel her way out of a corner when I revealed the warnings it sounds. She has now clearly branded herself as a Minister the public cannot trust," Mr McCully concluded.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>