I am struggling, despite my best efforts, to work myself up into much of a lather over a journalist's phone log and emails being handed across by mistake to a Prime Ministerial inquiry.
The Parliamentary press gallery is in hyperdrive pumping the release as the worst abuse of state power since the Year Dot.
I don't share in the outrage because of: (a) the hypocrisy, (b) the lack of damage and (c) the journalist's amateurishness.
The media had no qualms publishing to great fanfare and effect Don Brash's emails. At the time he was the leader of the National Party. His emails were stolen.
Brash's emails were published as a book, splashed across the front page of every major newspaper and led TV news night after night. They were made into a play and a movie. The permission of Don Brash and those who had emailed him was not obtained.