The pressure of slashed media budgets, faster news schedules and attempts by Governments to control the flow of information is making it harder for journalists to do their job – truth-seeking and truth telling. And that isn’t good for cross-cultural news coverage, says Professor Mark Pearson. Continue reading
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
We think we are racist – but what do we mean?
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Seventy-six per cent of responses gathered by TV3’s The Vote last Wednesday night agreed with the proposition that New Zealand was a racist country. But views are divided however on whether the problem is a lack of tolerance across the board or white institutional racism against people of colour. At a Conference on Racism convened Read more
White supremacists planning a racist campaign
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
A white supremacist Christchurch group is planning to distribute anti-Chinese flyers around Auckland, a city council ethnic panel member says. Chinese woman Bevan Chuang said she had received information that the Right Wing Resistance was planning to distribute leaflets in Titirangi, Manurewa and Onehunga attacking Chinese immigration. “Safety is the most important thing, so please Read more
Bishop Dunn sends message of support after Jewish graves desecrated
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Bishop Pat Dunn, the Catholic Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, has expressed his disgust at the desecration of Jewish graves with anti-semitic obscenities, including Nazi swastikas, at a cemetery in Auckland. “The vandalism of Jewish graves is a despicable act and I am disgusted that any person or persons would stoop to this level of Read more
Fr Lapsley, Anglican activist in New Zealand ANC conference
Friday, August 17th, 2012
Fr Michael Lapsley, a South African Anglican priest and social justice activist, born in New Zealand, will be in Wellington this coming weekend for a conference to be held at Victoria University. Lapsley was active in support of the liberation struggle in South Africa and was critically injured in an assassination attempt by parcel bomb in Read more
SDL want Fiji to be declared a Christian State
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
The SDL Party wants Fiji to be declared a Christian State, Christianity to be the state religion and Fijian to be the national language of the state. The SDL (Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua) was founded in 2001 by Laisenia Qarase. It is widely seen as the successor to the Alliance, the former ruling party that had dominated Fijian politics Read more
“Joking” Samoan PM says churches “joking” about Casino
Friday, July 20th, 2012
The Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Fatialofa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, well known for his light hearted comments to the media, is suggesting that the country’s National Council of Churches was acting in a similarly jocular manner when it warned of the perils of casinos and gambling in Samoa. Last week the Chairman of NCC, Reverend Read more
Is there a problem with how media cover race issues?
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Is there a problem with how media cover race issues? A recent TV programme featured a Northland man, Wikatana Popata, talking about a hikoi in protest about the Government’s proposed asset sales last month. Popata made the most of his air time and said he had “had enough of Pakeha”, and wanted the Treaty of Waitangi Read more
NZ media has a problem with race relations coverage says Commissioner
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres says the New Zealand media has a problem with the way it covers race relations issues. He was speaking about the recent CloseUp debate between John Ansell and Hone Harawira. Mr de Bres says it is typical of New Zealand media to give plenty of coverage to controversial figures Read more
TVNZ’s Race debate “hyperbole, and lies”
Friday, April 27th, 2012
On Tuesday night the a programme on New Zealand Television’s TV1 Closeup, touted as the race debate, pitted Hone Harawera against John Ansell with commentator Morgan Godfrey added, presumably as a moderating voice of reason. Godfrey has expressed disappointment at the manner in which the debate was conducted “I was, more than anything, stunned and confused with what was said Read more