Tag: Media bias
Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims
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...
John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and...
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...
Media targeting public for a war with China, warns Declassified Australia
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,...
Indonesian media ‘favours state voice’ on West Papua, PJR research finds
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...
Allegations over cult leader feature in new Muslim Media Watch monitor
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...
Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence
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...
SIBC chief defends ‘free’ state media broadcaster in face of tighter...
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 --...
Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster
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...
New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation
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...
Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how...
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...
During the Great Depression, many newspapers betrayed their readers. It’s happening...
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...
Michael Andrew: On the NZ media’s coverage of West Papua
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...
Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 election shows media regulation needs
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...
NZ journalists focusing on ‘tragedy prevention’, says CJR research
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...
Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Social media shutdown blocks out ‘truth’
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...
Mediawatch NZ: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3
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...
Hearts and minds – how new media ‘cold war’ impacts on...
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...
500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security
US Marines arrive in Port Moresby on board USS Green Bay. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 500 US marines and US Navy...
Mainstream NZ media takes pasting at multicultural summit
Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...