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Campaign Against Biased Reporting Organised
Campaign Against Biased Reporting Organised
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AWA (Allies of Whânau of Aotearoa) is
initiating a campaign of complaints about biased reporting
by TVNZ.
AWA is concerned that TVNZ is referring
to the Mâori arrestees in Tûhoe as Mâori activists. By
comparison, BBC headlines are referring to the arrestees as
Maori rights campaigners. This clear difference in
reporting is reminiscent of reporting on the floods in New
Orleans that called black people 'looters' and said that
white people were 'salvaging food'.
As shapers of
the public mind, TVNZ has obligations to report fairly on
issues affecting the Mâori community.
AWA pointed
out the irony of Mâori getting better treatment from a
foreign news agency.
Even Al Jazeera is
referring to arrestees as 'campaigners for Mâori
sovereignty.'
AWA has provided a template for
people who wish to complain:
- I don't like TVNZ
referring to the Mâori rights campaigners as activists
-
By comparison, BBC is calling them Mâori rights
campaigners
- TVNZ is stigmatising Mâori in the eyes of
the public
- The irony is that Mâori own and pay for
TVNZ as members of the public. We are paying for ourselves
to be stigmatised.
- I would prefer if TVNZ referred to
them as Mâori rights campaigners.
AWA has
provided the numbers for ringing TVNZ to complain to members
of its networks.
AUCK 916 7000
WGTN 914
5600
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