Newshub’s World of Make Believe
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 10:50 am
Press Release: New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters
Leader of New Zealand First
26
SEPTEMBER 2017
Newshub’s World of Make
Believe
Whatever Patrick Gower and the Newshub producers
are on, they should get off it,” says New Zealand First
Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“Their TV news broadcasts
the last two nights have been fiction, and grossly
misleading. I will not be explaining what parts are
fictional. Some of it is barefaced lies.
“This news
broadcaster is claiming sources that don’t exist, and is
merely toying with viewers and presenting make believe
instead of facts. It’s the very worst form of journalism
and Newshub is not the only one doing it – sad to
say.
“None of it will have any bearing on New Zealand
First in the coming talks around the establishment of the
next government,” says Mr
Peters.
ENDS
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