Blog comment of the week

On WhaleOil’s Why we broke the story of the rooting ratbag mayor, a reader asks why the story didn’t appear before last weekend’s election in which the rooting ratbag mayor in question, the politician formerly known as Len Brown, was re-elected. Cameron Slater replies:

Because I didn’t have the facts or the proof. You can’t run a story based on rumour and innuendo.

And to think this man was once the editor of Truth.