Mr Stewart said they were consulting people for training in "cultural intelligence and unconscious bias" and responding to more than 1000 letters and complaints. And we should have made this much clearer when we understood the impact of our decision," Mr Stewart told ODT readers on Thursday’s frontpage mea culpa. Photo: PHOTO / RNZ MediawatchBut it took two days for Mr Stewart and the ODT to get to that point. It didn't seem to occur to Mr Tremain that measles deaths ought to override nailing a pun about 'spots' for a cartoon. ODT editor Barry Stewart won't comment on that - and what he called “an employment review” - until they’re complete.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 07, 2019 20:21 UTC