Media

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest detainment camp,...

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring Gaza doctor’s plea

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me...

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’

ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists...

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

Mānawatia a Matariki! Flashback 41 years on: One year ago marking the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the...

‘If we don’t save Dr Abu Safiya, he’ll die in prison’ – released detainees on Gaza doctor

By Qassam Muaddi On June 10, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya appeared on a screen before Israel’s Supreme Court via...

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel continues its war on journalism

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone An Israeli airstrike destroyed the press office of the Lebanese news broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Wednesday night, continuing Israel’s historically unprecedented...

Steven Cowan: The New Zealand media – a bystander to genocide

COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan Stuff declined earlier this month to publish a full-page advertisement accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. In his 1994 memoir, You...

How the US became blind to Israeli terror

ANALYSIS: By Derek Leebaert The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) finding in January of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is...

Caitlin Johnstone: On human rights, ‘friendly’ war crimes and Western hypocrisy

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in...

Great journalism overview of troubling politics and violence in the Pacific region

BOOK REVIEW: By Anna-Karina Hermkens Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific is a sequel to two earlier published...

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in Aotearoa New Zealand to win support...