RNZ’s Gaza conflict coverage abided by its editorial policy – Review
A review of RNZ coverage regarding the conflict in Gaza has concluded RNZ has abided by its own editorial policy – as well as the standards and principles of the Media Council and the Broadcasting Standards Authority watchdogs.
The review assessed coverage and complaints made to RNZ since Palestinian armed groups attacked Israel in October 2023 and the subsequent Israeli response in Gaza and other areas in the region.
“There is a sense that complainants consider themselves and their families to be victims of bad reporting or unfair editorial decisions … and an underlying suspicion that the media generally is aligned with the people the complainants view as opponents,” said the review.
“I heard and read nothing I would consider likely to reach the point of breaching the standards, with the exception of one matter which led to RNZ quickly retracting and correcting a writing error and upholding complaints,” said the reviewer, former RNZ editorial policy manager Colin Feslier.
Colin Peacock of Mediawatch is quick to criticise everyone else but very soft when it comes to RNZ.
Asking a former RNZ staff member to review your Gaza coverage is about as independent as asking Mike Hosking to review the Herald.
We know mainstream coverage of the atrocity in Gaza has always been woeful…
…when we are staring down almost a quarter of a million dead Palestinians from direct violence, indirect violence and bodies still trapped and rotting under the debris that contaminates the entirety of Gaza, how our State Broadcaster reports this matters.
We are witnessing an ethnic cleansing war crime genocide in real time and siding with the oppressors and enablers of that violence is a moral issue as much as it is a journalism issue now.
RNZs ridiculous firing and framing of Mike Hall as a communist insurgent when it was an internal incompetence (like TDB told you it was when the claims broke), highlights how jumpy RNZ are to criticism and will become ridiculously defensive at any claims of bias.
Is RNZ covering the genocide being committed by our allies in Gaza appropriately or not? We know apologist organisations that frame any criticism of Israel as anti-semitic frequently pressure media to not be critical of Israel and we know media are frightened of those lobby groups.
It matters how we are coving this appalling war crime or else citizens won’t appreciate the true magnitude of violence being disproportionately meted out upon the Palestinian people.
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RNwho? None of the RW folk I know has listened to them since the 2000’s.
Thats because they’re all over at Newstalk ZB and the fake news they take in.
…. Speaking (badly) of Newstalk ZB ,,,, it seems the Dirty Politics low-lifes that infest and associate with that media company quietly scrubbed a John Minto interview from their history.
John Minto | Real Life
reallife.nz›guests/John-Minto
“John Minto was a secondary school teacher for most of his working life and has worked in a variety of Auckland schools, retiring in 2018.
Не найдено: interview”
The ‘dead link’ came up in a (non google) search by a different search engine and browser I’m trying ,,,, called “Yandex” .
The search results displayed on Yandex are profoundly different than what Google shits out,,,,at least on the three ‘search and compare’ tests I did…..
Google is a Zionist friendly, non-official/ not recognised propaganda organisation …
The Yandex Browser & search engine has me gladly ditching Google as a search engine,,,
As for RNZ ,,,, they have been quite shit for a long time now.
Their Assange coverage was as bad as the BBC …..
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https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-bbc-and-rnz-sanitising-genocide.html
“SINCE ISRAEL began its genocidal assault on Gaza, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has, like the BBC, been increasingly accused of favouring Israel in its coverage of events in Gaza.
Despite the slaughter and destruction that the Israeli military has committed since October 2023, RNZ, also like the BBC, still refuses to accept that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Even though the International Criminal Court says that Israel has a case to answer and has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, RNZ’s news reports continue to frame Israel as pursuing a legitimate ‘war’ in Gaza.
Most of RNZ’s coverage of Gaza comes from Reuters and the BBC. Although many BBC journalists might be concerned that the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is being ‘massaged’ to present Israel in the best possible light, that isn’t the view of RNZ’s chief news editor Mark Stevens. He told staff last year that the accuracy and impartiality of news reports from BBC and Reuters could generally be ‘relied’ upon”
BBC — Biased Bull Crap
“We have a concerning situation that RNZ is uncritically republishing BBC news stories on Gaza that have likely been vetted by Raffi Berg, Israel’s man in the BBC and a known CIA and Mossad collaborator. Can it only be coincidence that RNZ’s refusal to acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and the gravest of war crimes, is exactly what the Zionist lobby wants?
Israel can rely on RNZ staff not to rock the boat. While many BBC journalists might have gone public to protest that BBC management is skewing stories in favour of Israel’s narratives, the silence from RNZ journalists has been deafening.”
.’..it is shameful that the New Zealand media has been so silent over this most horrendous episode of our times — genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in front of our very eyes for 15 months. To my knowledge, journalists in Aotearoa have not made even made statements of solidarity with the journalists of Gaza and their horrific sacrifice to bear witness to the truth.'”
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/03/rnz-whitewashing-genocide.html
The point I’m making is that if RNZ really were as RW as you all claim, RW’s would be listening to it – and they’re not.
Which is why they’re now beating RNZ in ratings and RNZ will die sooner or later.
Since they were Right Wing they almost certainly lied so who cares what you think?
People who know that a media not watched, read or listened to is dead.
RNZ give the Jewish side freedom to say their views but any Palestinian supporters get limited airtime with often a critical response afterwards. They are probably not as bad as our main TV news but that is not a high standard to beat.
I heard from him, in a public meeting recently, that long-time journo and editor Andrew Holden was shortly taking up some sort of editorial oversight role with RNZ.
I’m watching that space…..
I heard from him, in a public meeting recently, that long-time journo and editor Andrew Holden was shortly taking up some sort of editorial oversight role with RNZ.
I’m watching that space…..
It is shocking but our public TV station is appalling appalling appalling. Despite the BBC making the discovery that the head of News was doctoring news to make it look better for Israel, shocking stuff.