Rudd blames media for Gategate

PRIME MINISTER Kevin Rudd has blamed the media for hyping up the so-called Utegate affair.

"How can newspapers today, for example, run stories based on forged emails and assume that they are simply accurate as The Courier-Mail has done in Brisbane?" Mr Rudd said on Brisbane radio.

"The media have totally hyped this up," he said.

"And what's with adding 'gate' to any sort of scandal? That's the real gate. Where is the coverage on Gategate?"