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Maori media production, civic journalism and the foreshore and seabed controversy in Aotearoa
Get PDFThis article explores the social significance of increased media production by Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an opportunity for challenging a tendency in mainstream journalism to promote Pakeha perspectives. The analysis focuses on the recent documentary Hikoi, which was initiated by two young Maori women as a challenge to media framing of Maori protests as 'unjustified' and 'disruptive' acts. We argue that this documentary illustrates the potential for civic journalists to broaden public deliberations regarding political issues such as the foreshore and seabed controversy
A ‘heart to heart’ on race relations: TVNZ’s State of the Nation as public sphere discourse
Get PDFThis article considers TVNZ's audience discussion programme, State of the Nation, as a moment of public sphere discourse. The programme's pre-broadcast branding and deliberate construction of a bicultural television space is examined, while particular attention is given to the hosts' framing of the discussion and the programme was a questionable public sphere contribution, partly because the structuring of the discussion reinforced the established polarities of the Aotearoa/New Zealand 'race relations' debate, over-privileged producer control at the expense of audience participation and was, more generally, indicative of the limits of TVNZ's post-Charter commitment to public service broadcasting. 
REVIEW: Frank insights into Labour's controversial political maverick: Review of Black and White : John Tamihere, by John Tamihere with Helen Bain
No full textReview of Black and White : John Tamihere, by John Tamihere with Helen BainA theme in the book is Tamihere's uncanny ability to survive utterances and actions that should have ended the career of almost any other politician. At the time this was true, However, in the now notorious Investigate magazine artcle in April, where he put his blockey boot into a number of powerful Labour Party colleagues, and snapped ties with a few more of his diminishing list of friends, he looks to have shattered an image of seeming invunerability. 
REVIEW: Unchallenged bible of NZ media law: Review of Media Law in New Zealand (5th ed.), by John Burrows and Ursula Cheer and The Journalist's Guide to Media Law: Dealing with Legal and Ethical Issues (2d ed.), by Mark Pearson
No full textReview of Media Law in New Zealand (5th ed.), by John Burrows and Ursula Cheer and The Journalist's Guide to Media Law: Dealing with Legal and Ethical Issues (2d ed.), by Mark PearsonBurrows and Cheers have provided a greatly expanded analysis of the developing area of privacy law, an area watched with trepidation by the news media after several high profile court cases, both in New Zealand and overseas.
Pearson also deserves praises for his clear chapter on the freedom of the press, a fundamental concept that is too easiy glossed over in benevolent democracies. 
Challenges lie ahead for MTS in the Aotearoa public sphere
Get PDFMo ratou, ma matou, ma koutou, ma tatouFor them, for us, for everyone
As the Māori Television Service (MTS) celebrates its first year on air, it is easy to forget the long and at times painful struggle to get there, the aspirations of those who have worked in, consulted, wrote, and protested their way through the various incarnations of Māori broadcasting. The incarnations include Māori programming on mainstream television, Aotearoa Television, the Electoral College, Te Manu Aute, Nga Aho Whakaari, MTS legislation and the exhaustive process of building a new channel for all New Zealanders. We pay homage to those who have gone before and their passion to see Māori Television for and by Māori, to hear our Reo, tell our stories and to bring our way of life to all New Zealanders
The case for Pacific media reform to reflect island communities
Get PDF"The largest number of Tongans outside of Tonga lives in the United States. It is estimated to be more than 70,000; most live in the San Francisco Bay Area. On several occasions during two visits to the US by my wife and I during 2004, we met workers who operate the only daily Tongan language radio programmes in San Francisco. Our organisation supplies the daily news broadcast for their programmes. Our newspapers— in the Tongan and Samoan languages— also sell in the area. The question of what are the fundamental roles of the media came up in one of our discussions...
REVIEW: 'Embedded' with the invaded Iraqi people: Review of Long Drive Through A Short War: Reporting on the Iraq War, by Peter Wilson. Review of Chain of Command: The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh
No full textWilson's Long drive Through A Short War is a personal account of their time in Iraq during the invasion and a subsequent post-war visit to the country to see the fate of the people he had met.
Hersh's Chain of Command provides many of the missing links to those seeking greater insight into the wider struggle of Iraq's civil war unleashed by the failure of US post-invasion policy, even if this is not officially admitted. His 'muckracking' investigations concentrate on the policy failures, corruptions and abuses of power. 
The media and the coup leader: Sitiveni Rabuka: Fiji Coups Retrospective 1
Get PDFBrigadier-General Sitiveni Rabuka, the former prime minister of Fiji who gained notoriety for staging twin coups in 1987, has enjoyed a love-hate relationship with the Fiji and Pacific media for almost two decades. University of Canberra PhD student, Anthony Mason, interviewed Rabuka in the course of his research into Australian media coverage of the coups. He also interviewed the former editor of The Fiji Times, Vijendra Kumar. Pacific Journalism Review is publishing the transcripts of these interviews, where both Rabuka and Kumar reflect on the May 1987 coup and its aftermath—helping to put the May 2000 coup into perspective
Engaging sexualities: Lesbian/gay print journalism, community belonging, social space and physical place
Get PDFThis artical argues that lesbian/gay print journalism publications are strategically utilised by younger readers to forge a sense of community belonging. It is shown that such publications mediate an important dynamic between self-identity and group or community identity through motifs of belonging, engagement and access. Utilising interviews with younger readers of lesbian/gay journalism, it is argued that such publications are understood by readers as a public 'social space', but that a strong desire to engage in lesbian/gay in local, geographic and physical sense is identified by the readers, suggesting that such publications perform an important but incomplete role in the construction of sexual identity and community belonging. 
REVIEW: Making sense of the Solomon Islands upheaval: Review of The Manipulation of Custom: From uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands, by Jon Fraenkel
No full textReview of The Manipulation of Custom: From uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands, by Jon FraenkelDr Jon Fraenkel, a senior research fellow at the University of the South Pacific's Governance and Development Institute, has produced a solid and readable account of the [Solomon Island] uprising. He has more than an academic, however, and his own journalism, particularly with the London-based Economist was the among the scraps of evidence that were used to build up Canberra's intervention justification.