{"id":400545,"date":"2026-04-27T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:56:09","slug":"pm-christopher-luxon-defends-cancelling-regular-tvnz-breakfast-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400545\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Christopher Luxon defends cancelling regular TVNZ Breakfast appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI think Bolger cancelled press conferences, I think Key and Ardern made decisions about where they would go on,\u201d Luxon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">But he also spoke of a \u201csecond issue\u201d &#8211; referring to National Party whip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/media-insider\/media-insider-national-party-accuses-tvnz-press-gallery-staff-of-pressuring-mp-and-unacceptable-behaviour-tvnz-says-it-has-a-different-view\/premium\/SALYOKXFIFC3BDBGGUEHEED2MY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Smith\u2019s reported run-in with TVNZ reporters<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe respect the role of media, but it\u2019s also important that there are some standards and rules in Parliament,\u201d Luxon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had an issue with TVNZ around that and we\u2019ve made that clear to TVNZ management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The move is reminiscent of former PM Jacinda Ardern\u2019s decision to ditch her long-standing weekly interview with Hosking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">PR experts have called the move \u201cstrange\u201d, bold and potentially risky, but former Today FM boss Dallas Gurney had harsher words in an o<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/christopher-luxon-is-a-coward-for-ditching-tvnz-breakfast-interview-with-tova-obrien-dallas-gurney\/premium\/FGEGDHSHBRA5RPM5UMNI2VYVP4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/christopher-luxon-is-a-coward-for-ditching-tvnz-breakfast-interview-with-tova-obrien-dallas-gurney\/premium\/FGEGDHSHBRA5RPM5UMNI2VYVP4\/\">pinion piece in the Herald at the weekend<\/a> &#8211; calling the PM a \u201ccoward\u201d who was scared of O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Several Breakfast interview snippets have gone viral in recent weeks, including O\u2019Brien correcting the PM\u2019s claim he was the CEO of New Zealand, and a stumble when asked how many of National\u2019s Cabinet ministers were M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think Bolger cancelled press conferences, I think Key and Ardern made decisions about where they would go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115849,27605,665,7054,13037,16426,1308,99524,3039,42,5420,26477,16427,1073,6722,23362,43,2847,193,16422,56769,415,5425,2687,5815,40,38,41,39,6445,39163,6041,1316,377],"class_list":["post-400545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accessible","tag-appearance","tag-around","tag-breakfast","tag-cancelling","tag-christopher","tag-compared","tag-defended","tag-defends","tag-headlines","tag-hes","tag-leaders","tag-luxon","tag-media","tag-minister","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-only","tag-other","tag-pm","tag-pretty","tag-prime","tag-regular","tag-saying","tag-speak","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tvnz","tag-tvnzs","tag-weekly","tag-when","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}