PSNA complaint about TVNZ reporting upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority

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John Minto
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It was good to see this PSNA complaint against TVNZ reporting upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

TVNZ showed film which they claimed was of “anti-semitic violence” by Dutch football fans attacking Israeli football fans on the streets of Amsterdam last November. TVNZ described the scenes as disturbing.

The film actually showed the opposite – violent attacks on Dutch fans by Israeli hooligans who had engaged in racist “Death to Arabs” chants and attacks on Palestinians and Palestinian flags prior to the game.

We pointed out the error quickly but TVNZ refused to issue an apology and said it didn’t really matter because the mayor of Amsterdam had said there were anti-semitic attacks so the TVNZ mistake was minor.

Imagine if the situation had been reversed. TVNZ would have bent over backwards to issue grovelling apologies to the pro-Israel lobby.

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TVNZ’s reporting over the past 18 months has been relentlessly pro-Israel. They have centred Israeli narratives, Israeli excuses, Israeli explanations, Israeli propaganda points and Israeli spokespeople. Palestinian voices have been sidelined and given rudimentary coverage if at all.

John Minto

Co-National Chair

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

17 COMMENTS

  1. I think the Palestinians get more than enough coverage on Al Jazeera which most of the left here in NZ consume and regurgitate.

    • TVNZ broadcasts with funding from my taxes. I shouldn’t have to go to Al Jazeera to find out the facts because that is what TVNZ should be reporting in totally unbiased fashion, but because our government has aligned itself with that filthy in the United States we have endless bias in favour of the oppressors.

  3. Upheld on accuracy, TVNZ obviously employs Mick Hall in their preview exiting sweet. Not upheld on balance, so the rest of your comment on the bsa ruling is fantasy. Like the idea that holding Israeli hostages in Gaza should have no impact on a ceasefire

  4. Congratulations John! All power to anti-zionism! Death to “that shitty little country “wasrael”” and bad luck to its minions!

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