It is hard to shed a tear for the three hundred people who will lose their jobs at TVNZ and Newshub this year and few miss the hosts of Today FM who were axed last year. Their obvious left-wing bias has cost them dearly but evidently, no lessons have been learned.

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Stephen Berry is a former Act candidate and Auckland Mayoral candidate. The libertarian political commentator retired as a politician in July 2020 and now hosts the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show on Youtube.