Questions about the handling of the OCR leak issue aren’t going away. Last Saturday, I posted about some issues the Reserve Bank and MediaWorks should be asked about, flowing from a careful rereading of the relevant documents.
Since then there has been a variety of articles – especially focused on MediaWorks – in the mainstream media. Jenny Ruth had a piece on the NBR website “Were there other MediaWorks leaks from Reserve Bank lockups”. Hamish Rutherford has a substantial and useful piece in the Dominion-Post this morning “MediaWorks Owes an Explanation” (although I have considerably more readers than he reports) and John Drinnan’s media column in the Herald today is largely devoted to media aspects of the leak and its aftermath.
It is perhaps understandable that the mainstream media has focused mainly on the media dimensions – many of them are grumpy at losing the opportunities previously afforded by the lockups (although others…
View original post 829 more words
Margret Thatcher transformed much in our national life. Now taken as the totemic figure of Tory Euroscpeticism, her attitudes to Europe were perhaps less fixed, and more interesting.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments