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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

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Right-wing astroturfers were given a platform at the Bondi Royal Commission, their history concealed and their testimony uncontested. APMN member Wendy Bacon reveals what the Commissioners ignored for Michael West…

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

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KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis
Two months out from New Zealand’s general election, and we have yet to see new policy from any of the seven main political parties…

Posting profits but what is the future bottom line? - Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis

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COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
We have become all too familiar with New Zealand media company interim and full year reports oozing red ink, so it was pleasant surprise to see…

Never again for anyone: Why the NZ Holocaust Centre shouldn’t be involved in developing a new curriculum

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CAFÉ PACIFIC: By Jeremy Rose and Rick Sahar
Rick Sahar, a former board member of the New Zealand Holocaust Centre, soldier in the IDF, and son of concentration camp survivors…

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre that I founded at Auckland University of Technology, we…

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

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ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen
In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing…

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: Commentary: By Joel Jenkins
Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but…

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

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COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose of APMN
Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest…

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

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ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste
One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue…

The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media response

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COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question on the Facebook media page Kiwi Journalists Association last week.

“Kiwi…

Saige England: Praise for Australia’s Jewish Council but NZ’s council is a hasbara propaganda campaign

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COMMENTARY: By Saige England, an APMN member
Good on the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) for its submission to the Royal Commission.
The New Zealand Jewish Council is so…

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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COMMENTARY: By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva
The contest for influence in the Pacific is no longer confined to diplomacy, aid projects or infrastructure.

Increasingly, it is being waged through information…

Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse

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The failure of Australia and Western governments to hold Israel to account has enabled the abuse of Gaza flotilla detainees, including New Zealanders, argues Jerusalem Peace Prize recipient Stuart Rees…

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

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ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom…

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into resigning

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PACIFIC MEDIA WATCH: By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter
Opposition New Zealand MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman was “hounded” into resigning, after a “witch hunt”…

Moana Maniapoto: Why trashing the BSA is a sign of journalism and fairness being undermined

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COMMENTARY: By Moana Maniapoto
I was reluctant to enter into journalism because I valued the research and skills attached to the profession, particularly given it’s responsibility to hold the powerful…

Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

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As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David Robie…

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

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Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands and interventions of outside powers, amid growing threats from climate change, writes…

How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives

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COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut
In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on “controlling” the media.

Despite differences…