A local politician (who will probably be the next prime minister) gave an interview to a journalist at some kind of business forum, and said, on the topic of wages, "we would like them to come down". This was reported in a regional paper, and went over like a lead balloon once the bigger press got wind of it (wage disparity between NZ and Aus is a big issue here). Politician insisted he'd been misquoted, or was talking about something else; local paper printed an unedited transcript so people could see for themselves.
A couple of days later, a big city newspaper (which owned, or was in the same group as, the small paper) printed a retraction on behalf of the regional paper. Yeah, no pressure being applied there..
(meanwhile, a group named Family First is petitioning the government, with the support of fundamentalist christian groups, to reinstate the right of parents to beat their children..)
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Date: 2008-07-21 10:46 pm (UTC)A local politician (who will probably be the next prime minister) gave an interview to a journalist at some kind of business forum, and said, on the topic of wages, "we would like them to come down". This was reported in a regional paper, and went over like a lead balloon once the bigger press got wind of it (wage disparity between NZ and Aus is a big issue here). Politician insisted he'd been misquoted, or was talking about something else; local paper printed an unedited transcript so people could see for themselves.
A couple of days later, a big city newspaper (which owned, or was in the same group as, the small paper) printed a retraction on behalf of the regional paper. Yeah, no pressure being applied there..
(meanwhile, a group named Family First is petitioning the government, with the support of fundamentalist christian groups, to reinstate the right of parents to beat their children..)