Pacific Journalism Review (Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology)
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The corporate takeover of the online public sphere: A critical examination, with reference to 'the New Zealand case'
Get PDFMuch communications research is in agreement about the failure of mass media to adequately facilitate a public sphere of open and reflexive debate necessary for strong democratic culture. In contrast , the internet's decentralised, two-way communication is seen by many commentators to be extending such debate. However, there is some ambivalence among critical theorists as to the future role of the internet in advancing the public sphere. On the one hand, the internet is providing the means fot the voicing of positions and identities excluded from the mass media. On the other hand, a number of problem are limiting the extensiveness and effetivness of this voicing. One of the most significant problems is the corporate colonisation of cyberspace, and subsequent marginalisation rational-critical communication. It is this problem that i will focus on in this article, with reference to examples from what I refer to as the 'New Zealand online public sphere'. I show how online corporate portals and media sites are gaining the most attention orientated to public communication, including news, information, and discussion. These sites generally support conservative discourse and consumer practices. The result is a marginalisation online of the very voices marginalised offline, and also of the critical-reflexive form of communication that makes for a strong public sphere. I conclude by noting that corporate colonisation is as yet only partial, and control of attention and media is highly contested by multiple 'alternative' discursive spaces online
Post-colonial options in media conversations: The indigenous public sphere
No full textFor those of you who might who might be intersted in re-conceptulising the way in which New Zealand might become Aotearoa, one of the ongoing frustrations is the limitations of the media in relation to post-colonial discussions. The 1980s were characterised by a contradictory set of changes in the remaking of New Zealand. The conservation of econmoic deregulation and re-regulation was accompagnied by a significant re-ordering of identity. A particularly significant debate concerned national and indigenous identity and an emergent post-colonialism, or in During (1985) terms, coming to know New Zealand in our terms, not those which originated with a colonial power
Fiji journalism pioneer remembers: Vijendra Kumar: Fiji Coups Retrospective 2
No full textA transcipt of an interview with 1975 Fiji Times editor, Vijendra Kumar
The political gorilla and the Pacific Forum: Getting it right?
Get PDFFiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, has often complained of 'inaccuracy, misinformation, distortion and bias' in reporting the Pacific region. Yet there is more to 'getting it right' than accurately reporting Qarase's facts. What of journalists' unstated cultures and conventions which frame international news so that international reporting of Pacific events may bear little resemblance to community priorities? Are the resulting perceptions of misinformation and distortion created by differing national agendas, corporate interests, cultural assumptions or even lingering colonial prejudices? This article examines Australian press reporting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit meeting held in Samoa in August 2004 and compares it to that of the Pacific and New Zealand regional press. Reporters' and editors' views are contextualised with the official communiqué issued at the end of the conference
REVIEW: Quandry over contrasting ethics texts: Review of Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases, by Martin Hirst and Roger Patching
No full textReview of Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases, by Martin Hirst and Roger Patching"I have sought advice from both texts on this kind of delimma: journalists allowing personal allegiances to influence them in the course of their duty. Richard points to the flaws in Australian MEAA Code of Ethics' clause 4 which stipulates journalists should not allow 'personal interest or any belief, commitment, payment, gift or benefit; to undermine their accuracy, fairness or independence..Hirst and Patching make much of an 'ethical fault line' metaphore throughout their text and refer to objectvity as 'one of the most volatile fault lines in the ideology of reports...
Case Studies: City Voice, an alternative to the corporate model
No full textIn this commentry, we first place City Voice in an historical media context. We then outline the history of the publication: its purpose, its contents and character, its role in the Wellington community, its ownership and finance, and the reasons for its eventual closure. Finally, we draw some conclusions. 
REVIEW: Globalisation for whom? Review of The Three Waves of Globalisation: A History is a Developing Global Consciousness, by Robbie Robertson
No full textReview of The Three Waves of Globalisation: A History is a Developing Global Consciousness, by Robbie Robertson
Robertson's all-embracing, long dureé conception of globalisation provides important anthropological isights. However, the universalist scale of his narrative leads to over-generalised accounts of structural power and political opposition. 
Bullying the public broadcaster: Threatening the ABC's role
Get PDFPublic broadcasting in Australia has been under sustained attack for around 18-years now, both politically and through reduced funding. Although the Fraser Government (1975-1983) enacted legislation converting the ABC from the old broadcasting commission into a corporation (with its own borrowing and corporate treasury powers), the then Malcolm/Fraser/Doug/Anthony Liberal/National Coalition Government did not seem to hold more than the usual superficial grudges about our current affairs programmes' treatment of some of their practitioners. 
REVIEW: An emotional, eternal life struggle for peace, justice: Review of: West Papua: Follow the Morning Star, by Ben Bohane, Liz Thompson and Jim Elmslie
No full textFew books have been published in Oceania offering the political and social resonance achieved by some photojournalists in the Asia-Pacific region and further afield internationally. Books come to mind such as Depth of Field, a powerful collection of photographs of poverty and repression in the Philippines; The Brotherhood, a revealing portrayal of a corrupt police precinct in Manila by Alex Baluyut for the Philippines Centre for Investigative Journalism
REVIEW: Distortions of imperialism afflict media view of Islam: Review of Dog Whistle Politics and Journalism: Reporting Arabic and Muslim People in Sydney newspapers, by Peter Manning
No full textFor journalists in New Zealand bemused by the apparent paranoia in Australia over the issue of 'boat people' in the wake of the international incident on the high seas off the northwestern coast involving the Norwegian freighter Tampa. Peter Manning's damning monograph clears much of the fog. Through two years of textual analysis, he has laid bare how Australia's discourse of fear came to be focused on some 4000 people on board leaky boats, seeking asylum without visas.