Tag: Media bias

Pacific Media Watch Pacific media commentator and Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie has criticised New Zealand media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, describing...

Democracy Now! Acclaimed journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Democracy Now! to discuss US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza and how the war is...

Pacific Media Watch A report by a media watchdog has revealed the United Kingdom’s media bias in covering the Hamas attack on October 7 and...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...

By Cam Wilson in Sydney A senior Nine staff journalist has resigned and readers are angrily cancelling their newspaper subscriptions as Sydney Morning Herald and...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they...

Pacific Media Watch Barely a day passes without a story in the British or Australian media that ramps up fear about the rulers in Beijing,...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist News media in Indonesia act as "government loudspeakers" by advancing a one-sided narrative regarding...

Pacific Media Watch A new media monitoring watchdog, Muslim Media Watch, published its first edition today featuring a cover story alleging that a Malaysian cult...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The head of the Solomon Islands state-owned broadcaster has defended its role in the face of the government tightening control --...

RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands government has prompted anger by ordering the censorship of the national broadcaster. The government of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has forbidden...

REVIEW: By Krishan Dutta While the covid-19 pandemic’s relentless cyclone continues across the globe wreaking havoc on economies and social systems, this book sheds light...

COMMENTARY: By Carmen Parahi Since 2001, I’ve worked in both mainstream news and Māori media. I love journalism but it’s a hard slog being a...

ANALYSIS: By Sally Young of the University of Melbourne Many newspapers betrayed their readers during the Great Depression and now some are doing so again...

OPINION: By Michael Andrew of Pacific Media Watch For the past three weeks a wave of violent protest has been spreading across West Papua and...

By Denis Muller in Melbourne Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the...

By Michael Andrew More New Zealand journalists have been seeking ways to “prevent tragedy” through their reporting, shows new research published in Columbia Journalism Review. The...

Al Jazeera's Listening Post analysis of the social media fallout after Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings. Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk After the Easter Sunday bombings, social...

Al Noor Mosque imam Gamal Fouda speaking to Christchurch, New Zealand, and the watching world. He says despite the terrorist's intentions, New Zealand remains...

By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch Seven senior New Zealand journalists spent a week in Hawai'i late last year and produced just one story between...