Here at Newstalk ZB we’ve got a lot of messages concerned about the government controlling the media in the last week.
These concerns have often accompanied by a video of Newshub’s Tova O’Brian talking about a document dump.
Kerre McIvor spoke to Tova to confirm that the government did not pay TV3 to shelve the story.
She says it was a story from May last year, and that the Prime Minister’s office was not happy about the story being leaked to Newshub at the time.
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