Article – Tom Frewen The utter shambles that has developed under Labours Broadcasting and Media Minister Kris Faafoi, a former TVNZ political reporter, is revealed in correspondence between his office and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage obtained under the Official Information … The utter shambles that has developed under Labour’s Broadcasting and Media Minister Kris Faafoi, a former TVNZ political reporter, is revealed in correspondence between his office and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage obtained under the Official Information Act. Included in documents released by Mr Faafoi on Monday 16 June, two months after they’d been requested and the minister had given himself an extension that doubled the usual response time of 20 working days, are letters that he sent to the Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, and Radio New Zealand’s board chairman, Jim Mather. The letters explain his reason for thinking that Parliament’s five-yearly review of Radio New Zealand’s charter, set to occur any time after April 2 this year, would not be “practicable” until after a Cabinet decision expected in October on the viability of a new “public media entity”.