Monday 12th Feb 2001

“Helen Clark has displayed yet another example of her about-face behaviour with her comments over Paul Holmes' salary,” says ACT Spokesman for Broadcasting Penny Webster.

"Last year she stormed into this issue with all guns blazing. She referred to Mr Holmes' salary as `revolting'. Then it was a populist issue - chop down the tall poppy.

"Now, with the criticism of the Draft Charter for TVNZ, Helen Clark changes her stance completely.

“Suddenly the issue of staff wages is an operational matter and none of her business. “Suddenly its ‘up to TVNZ to find the appropriate market price’ for their staff.

“She may be able to fool some people with her chameleon act, but others have far too long a memory for that,” Mrs Webster said.

ENDS

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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>>