PM pulls out of weekend TV show interviews

Newshub reports:

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her planned appearances on both Newshub Nation and TVNZ’s Q+A this weekend, saying there was an issue with her diary.

Ms Ardern’s chief press secretary told Newshub Nation on Wednesday the Prime Minister would not be appearing on the show because he got the date of the interview wrong.

“There’s been bit of a diary issue in my team. There’s no question I remain very much available for any issue of the day,” Ms Ardern said on Thursday.

“This was a simple diary issue.”

How unfortunate that this simple diary issue made her unavailable for both TV shows, at the conclusion of a week of terrible news for her Government.

Terrible bad luck.

But wait, I have a solution.

It’s this thing called a pre-record. I’m sure both The Nation and Q+A would be very happy to do a pre-record with her. In fact I’d even guess they would be willing to send their interviewer to where-ever the PM is, so it would only take half an hour out of her day.

It’s the third time the Prime Minister has pulled out of a scheduled interview with Newshub Nation in the past year. The other interviews were planned for August and February.

Wow her office must be really bad at this scheduling stuff.