“The Public’s Right to Know”: Television News Coverage of the Ngāpuhi Media Ban

Abel, Susan

doi:10.11157/medianz-vol9iss2id77

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“…Like earlier media stories such as those about cultural safety (Ramsden & Spoonley, 1993), 'Maori Affairs Loan' (Rice, 1990), Auckland University Haka Party (Walker, 2004), Motua Gardens (Barclay & Liu, 2003) and the Ngaphui media ban (Abel, 2006) the initial high profile coverage adds to a Pākehā lexicon of 'facts' about Māori threats, acts, or financial untrustworthiness. Even when a story is subsequently shown to have been inaccurate or, as in this case, an emotive media construction, the delayed correction, plus common elements of vocabulary and storylines sustain sufficient credibility for people to remember much of the original as if it had been trustworthy.…”

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‘Media surveillance of the natives’: A New Zealand case study―Lake Taupo air space

Nairn¹,

McCreanor²,

Rankine³

et al. 2009

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Research has shown news media in post-colonial societies such as Aotearoa New Zealand naturalise the colonising processes by which settler values and social organisation were imposed and the resulting marginalised status of the indigenous peoples. We explore these processes in news reports that claimed Māori wanted to charge for airspace over Lake Taupo. Studying headlines, the originating newspaper article, and subsequent television reports, we show how Māori were constructed as threatening the ability of ‘New Zealanders’ to enjoy the lake. That threat was constructed as imminent although the accounts included no direct evidence or identified source for the reported demand. We consider the one-sided coverage inaccurate, unbalanced and unfair, encouraging perceptions of Māori as hostile and disruptive social actors in our contemporary society. Wider implications of this media performance for this crucial area of social relations are considered.

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‘Media surveillance of the natives’: A New Zealand case study―Lake Taupo air space

Nairn¹,

McCreanor²,

Rankine³

et al. 2009

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“…Pākehā hegemony in this country has been so naturalised and white privilege is so invisible to white people that those Pākehā who do not understand our history, or have not worked in some way to become more bicultural, must find challenges to their monocultural world view and power extremely threateningespecially when it comes from a Māori. Abel, for example, has noted the apoplectic rage and charges of racism with which white media practitioners responded to Ngāpuhi's media ban in 2003 (Abel, 2007). In a related vein, Branscombe et al argue as a result of their own research that when Whites are confronted with suggestions that they benefit from racial inequality, they may respond with increased modern racism in order to justify their privilege (203).…”

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There’s Racism and Then There’s Racism: Margaret Mutu and the Immigration Debate

Abel

Mutu²

2014

Media Peripheries

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, the main story on the front page of the Sunday Star-Times was headlined "Curb White Immigrants-Academic." Two subheadings underneath read: "SA, UK and US migrants racist, charges Maori scholar" and "Labour Department bears out ethnic fears." The article itself, with the by-line 'By Marika Hill,' starts: A Maori academic says immigration by whites should be restricted because they pose a threat to race relations due to their 'white supremacist' attitudes. (Hill) A furore followed. The article was reproduced in other Fairfax media, Te Karere Ipurangi (Maori News Online), and a wide range of blogs. Each time it was reproduced, more comments accumulated. Facebook groups were set up: "Margaret Mutu is poison," "Call for Margaret Mutu to resign NOW," "Margaret Mutu-a leader with guts and grace." Online media conducted surveys such as "Were Margaret Mutu's comments racist?" Weekend newspaper columnists Michael Laws and Rosemary McLeod responded with their (different) takes on the issue. Mutu received a large number of phone calls, and emails from 157 people. What all these people were responding to, however, is not actually what Mutu said. In the article that follows, we set out Mutu's account of the misreporting of her views in the Sunday Star-Times article and in the current affairs bulletin Close Up on the following Monday. We then analyse the negative responses in the first week of emails sent to Mutu. We argue that the bulk of these emails are based on either traditional racism or what is known as modern or symbolic racism, and so they ironically endorse much of what Mutu had to say. This racism, however, in whatever form it takes, can be linked to ignorance of the issues involved. We see such ignorance as a failure of both the education system and the media to educate all New Zealanders about the Crown's breaches of the Treaty and the continuing impact on Māori of these breaches and of processes of colonisation which are manifested in * Sue Abel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she works in both the Department of Māori Studies and the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies. Her research focuses on issues around indigeneity and media, with a particular focus on Māori and media. Margaret Mutu is the professor and head of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland and chair of Ngāti Kahu's parliament. She has research interests in Māori language and literature, and a number of contemporary issues affecting Māori and indigenous peoples.

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“…According to Lowenthal (2017), freedom to publish is not the same as "the people"s right to know", which usually complicates the aspect of journalists" right to publish stories on matters concerning national security. National Security, in the current description of a Nation -State, refers to the effective management of national affairs of a country at all levels of its operation that aims to maintain the integrity of the nation and the security of its people (Abel, 2006). In the present-day age though, national security has diverged from national defense, and has widened to incorporate different facets of a globalized world, in terms of economic, human, cultural, and political security.…”

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“…According to Abel (2006), Dworznik (2016), Kampf (2014), and Livingston (2019), freedom of expression and press freedom also allows the media to inform the public about government activities, promote accountability by government officials, as well as provides solutions to conflict. This encourages various views including dissent voices to be heard.…”

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Journalism versus national security: An analysis of reportage by journalists in Kenya defense forces activities during operation Linda Nchi (2011-2012)

Anne¹

2021

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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This study sought to investigate the complex relationship between journalistic activities and national security. The study answered the following questions: At what point should reporters put aside their professional and career interests for the sake of national security? Should press limits be selfimposed? What obligations do journalists have when it obtains information with national security implication? The study used content analysis to measure these thematic areas. The analysis used 18 newspapers drawn randomly from publications by The Daily Nation and the standard newspapers in Kenya between October 2011 and February 2012. It searched for narratives that undermined government efforts to safe guard national security, caused fear among citizens and undermined the Kenya Defense forces efforts in fighting the Al-Shabaab. The study found out that 64% of the articles exposed government moves geared towards protecting Kenya's national security, 37% caused fear among citizens by exposing the attacks to Al-Shabbab hence retaliation was eminent and 81% did not care about secrecy of information as they exposed crucial information from the government that could endanger Kenya's national security. The study concluded that journalist should be trained on ethical reporting and guided on how their coverage can either salvage a national security crisis or make it worse.

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“The Public’s Right to Know”: Television News Coverage of the Ngāpuhi Media Ban

Abstract: “The Public’s Right to Know”: Television News Coverage of the Ngāpuhi Media Ban

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‘Media surveillance of the natives’: A New Zealand case study―Lake Taupo air space

‘Media surveillance of the natives’: A New Zealand case study―Lake Taupo air space

There’s Racism and Then There’s Racism: Margaret Mutu and the Immigration Debate

Journalism versus national security: An analysis of reportage by journalists in Kenya defense forces activities during operation Linda Nchi (2011-2012)

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