NZ on Air board member Andrew Shaw who has stepped down today.
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New Zealand on Air says board member Andrew Shaw has resigned over a post he made regarding Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters.
It said Shaw has also unreservedly apologised for comments made on LinkedIn about Peters.
Newshub is reporting that Shaw’s post said of Peters: “He’s not truthful. He’s not accurate. He’s malicious and he is here on behalf of international tobacco. His return is the worst of this gang of thugs.”
The post has since been taken down from LinkedIn, Newshub reported.
Shaw was responding to comments from Peters on Monday, during which he accused state-funded media organisations of a lack of independence from the previous government.
He said TVNZ and RNZ were not truly independent, and could not “defend $55 million of bribery”. This was a reference to the…
