TVNZ chief defends filming private homes as channel rebuts ‘animus’ claims

TVNZ chief defends filming private homes as channel rebuts ‘animus’ claims

It probably wasn’t a good week for a news boss to be asked about the legitimacy of filming the private home of the subject of controversy. In the week of a window being broken at the home of Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Phil O’Sullivan, executive editor for 1News, faced that dilemma when notes of a call he had with reporter Thomas Mead were examined in evidence in the High Court. O’Sullivan addressed the journalistic ethics of a note by Mead…