Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats
Controversy grows after claims that Police Minister Mark Mitchell pressured TVNZ over coverage of gang numbers and crime statistics in New Zealand.
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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza
“This isn’t just a war against Gaza, it’s a war against journalism. Journalists are being targeted, killed and defamed. Without them, who will alert us to the famine?”
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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime
Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of working journalists as “terrorists”, following the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff over the weekend. But NZ journalists remain silent.
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As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they were to blame over misinformation and the worsening catastrophe.
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NZ protesters honour killed Gaza journalists – ‘targeted’ say press freedom groups
Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week by the Israeli armed forces while protesters in Auckland and Christchurch
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Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association called on states to take practical and effective steps to end arbitrary and excessive restrictions on free expression.
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NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by global decline
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific From: Pacific Media Watch New Zealand has slumped to an unprecedented 19th place…
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Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local media
From Pacific Media Watch at Asia Pacific Report: Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil to the more than 100 journalists — most of them Palestinian — killed in Israel’s War on Gaza.
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Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times. The latest assassination of an Al Jazeera photojournalist while documenting atrocities has prompted a leading analyst to appeal to global journalists to “take a stand” to protect the profession.
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Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression
Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory.