First the Sunday Star Times publishes a great editorial lamenting the NZHerald’s decision to outsource their core editorial competency – the sub editors. The outsourcing, for my mind, seems to be a dumb decision made by an MBA not a newspaperman.
“Subbing factories will turn out factory newspapers….
Then the Sunday Star Times also publishes excerpts from a rather heavy handed email from an NZHerald on Sunday assistant editor to the woman who released the police group sex video. (Hat tip to Kiwiblog)
“We can play this one of two ways; either with your co-operation or without. “
roll on next Sunday….

It gets worse… the HoS says the Shiptons have split up:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431994
But Sharon Shipton says this isn’t the case, and that the reporter didn’t even talk to her:
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/209/articleID/24321/Default.aspx
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