18 Sep 2019

Midweek Mediawatch

From Lately, 10:45 pm on 18 September 2019

Jeremy Rose is in the chair for Midweek Mediawatch tonight.

Activists take on the Bronx zoo in New York to have legal personhood status given to its elephant, Happy, echoing New Zealand's decision to legal personhood status to the Whanganui River and Te Urewera.

And New Zealand journalist Tess McClure ventures down a Madagascar mine-shaft to witness first-hand the dangerous daily reality of the children who dig out the crystals so prized by the wellness industry and its new age devotees.  

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Photo: Dissent Magazine: screenshot