Hubbard sues NBR for $1.5m
After the oh-so-predicitable attack on Auckland mayoral candidate Dick Hubbard in the National Business Review, comes news that Hubbard is suing them for $1.5 million (The New Zealand Herald).

NBR is one of the few papers in New Zealand to follow the American model of journalism - they really, truly, seem to hate their political opponents, and to want to bring them down personally. It's funny to see how they attack Hubbard ("he pays low wages", "he doesn't report against a triple-bottom-line") when they'd defend any other businessman who used the same methods.  
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