“Maori news is bad news”: That’s certainly so on television

MEDIA RESEARCH

Description

Mainstream TV news programmes (One News, Tonight, 3 News, Nightline, Prime News) carried very few Maori news stories (2% of the total, 28); on eight of the 21 days they showed no Maori news stories. Of the 28 shown, 18 focused on violence among Maori or against Maori children as if violence were a Maori characteristic. Apart from isolated exceptions, stories encouraged viewers to see Mäori as violent, criminal, and irresponsible. On days when English-language programmes carried 28 stories, Te Kaea and Te Karere carried 250 more varied Maori news items.

Resources

MAI-Journal-v1-1-Moewaka-Barnes-et-al

Resource type

Academic article

Year

2012

Primary author

Ray Nairn

Secondary author(s)

Angela Moewaka Barnes, Belinda Borell, Jenny Rankine, Amanda Gregory, Tim McCreanor

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