This is new to me. The PM says she has been told by a "very credible source" that the Exclusive Brethren tried to hire a private detective to follow her and her husband around. She also says she is "tired of the media giving right-wing journalists, like Matthew Hooton, endless space in the SST" and even, "Airtime on Radio NZ owned by the people of New Zealand".
Makes a change though, doesn't it. She is really on the ropes at the moment.
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As opposed to the column inches devoted to defending Helen by Chris Trotter, Finlay MacDonald, bloggers like No Right Turn and Russell Brown and the myriad of supporters on RNZ.
I am constantly amazed that the Brethren are becoming Labour's bogeyman - a sign perhaps of the paranoia and the chickens coming home to roost. Of course, this is all part of the "vast right-wing conspiracy".
So, is Auntie Helen proposing that that state-owned media must not say anything that is not glowing praise of her regime, much like the official media of the former USSR and communist China?
Given the current moves to outlaw so-called "hate speech", it would seem that freedom of speech must be surpressed if it shows the government to be anything less than divinely infallible.
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