1 Jul 2018

Filling a news vacuum with political "comedy"

From Mediawatch, 9:10 am on 1 July 2018
Jeremy Wells and Simon Bridges on Seven Sharp speed date

Jeremy Wells and Simon Bridges on Seven Sharp speed date Photo: Screen shot: TVNZ

Last week opposition leader Simon Bridges joked that nothing he said during a Radio Hauraki interview mattered because there was going to be a "news vacuum" following the birth of the Prime Minister's daughter. He couldn't have been more wrong, as Mediawatch's Jeremy Rose reports.