Tova’s Video Scrubbed

TV3 was not paid to dump document dump story

A screenshot from Newshub's website showing the document dump video dated May last year

Here at Newstalk ZB we’ve got a lot of messages concerned about the government controlling the media in the last week.

These concerns have often accompanied by a video of Newshub’s Tova O’Brien talking about a document dump.

Kerre McIvor spoke to Tova to confirm that the government did not pay TV3 to shelve the story.

She says it was a story from May last year, and that the Prime Minister’s office was not happy about the story being leaked to Newshub at the time.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre-mcivor-mornings/audio/tova-obrien-response-to-video-about-document-dump-and-jacinda-arderns-office-gagging-ministers/