Was a recent Human Right Commission review right to single out the Taranaki Daily News?
Human Rights Commission: Talking About Ourselves web page. Photo: Human Rights Commission
In April the Human Rights Commission released Talking About Ourselves – a “media scan” that found the media published “fewer positive stories about Maori issues” than other ethnic groups “and conversely more negative [ones]” in 2014.
The report claimed that the Taranaki Daily News had published the most stories dealing with racial issues of any publication in New Zealand (including Stuff and the NZ Herald), and with 16 percent of those 161 stories being categorised as negative it was also the publication with the most negative stories.
The recently retired editor of the Taranaki Daily News, Roy Pilott, and Christian Ammunson, a senior media adviser at the Human Rights Commission, discuss the report with Mediawatch’s Jeremy Rose.
The Human Rights Commission supplied the following links as examples of the negative stories published by the Taranaki Daily News:
- Migrants trouble Christchurch prostitutes
- Worker fails to win racism claim
- Immigrants should fit in says Peters
- Worker fails to win racism claim
- Bullied teens broken neck fear
- Reverse apartheid
- Maori seats
- Let minorities rule
- Wealthy Chinese knock on NZs door
- Nation needs smart immigration says Peters
- End of brain drain to hit house prices
- Maori dislike of Asian immigration deepens
- Man hospitalised workplace bully
- Cities prosper while regions struggle
- Racist cult
- Trespass order shocks midwife
- Cartoons targeted bludgers not race
- Lawyer says Jenny McNee not racist
- Elderly migrant parents abandoned to isolation
