Dominion-Post Editor Attempts Suicide. Now in Hospital

, and Bob Jones

July 22, 2021 . 8:30 AM

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Would the Stuff website run the above heading if, as would certainly not surprise anyone, it was true rather than made up by me?

We know the answer to that. Stuff would not for above all else it would be overwhelmingly tasteless and inconsiderate.

Yet today they led with it in respect of an Auckland radio personality, arguably the most contemptuously vile action by a newspaper in memory.

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