Media commentator Gavin Ellis

Gavin joins Kathryn and asks should the politically-connected be banned from media commentary? And he also looks at the latest readership figures - and NZME rightly trumpeted an increase for the Herald on Sunday. But why did it play with numbers to disguise the fact that the print readership of the daily Herald had dropped? Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz