Peters Asks Herald To Stop Lying
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 5:51 pm
Press Release: New Zealand First Party
Media Release
Peters Asks Herald To Stop Lying
New
Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has reiterated
his call for the NZ Herald to cease its long running
exercise in deception.
Mr Peters was responding to a front
page article in today’s Herald, which states that he ‘had
still not returned the phone call Dr Brash asked of
him’.
“The fact is no such phone call has been requested
of me by Dr Brash either to me personally or to my
staff.
“So why would the Herald engage in yet another bare
faced lie if its writers didn’t have their own little agenda
– as uniformed, pathetic and insidious as it is.
“The NZ
Herald these days should come with a disclaimer on the front
page: ‘Political comment in this publication is the result
of mindless mental meanderings by journalists who have
difficulty with the truth’,” said Mr Peters.
ENDS
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