TVNZ reporting a fourth hand rumour as news

1 News reports:

Substack blogger Emily Writes spoke to a source with a family member at a school who claimed the child opened their school lunch yesterday, “and a couple of flies came out“.

The media are so desperate to report bad news on the Government they are resorting to a unverified fourth hand source.

According to this the child, told a family member who told a source who told a blogger – and this makes national news!

Sean Teddy, hautū operations and integration at the Ministry of Education said: “We are aware of a complaint. 

“The Ministry is working with NZ Food Safety, who are looking into the matter to establish the facts. 

“However, given that the meal was heated for 25 minutes in a commercial oven and then transported to schools in specially insulated delivery boxes to keep them hot, we do think it is unlikely that a fly flew out of a packaged meal.”

In other words, it is near impossible – but hey lets run a story based on a fourth hand allegation.