Bullying the public broadcaster: Threatening the ABC's role
Public broadcasting in Australia has been under sustained attack for around 18-years now, both politically and through reduced funding. Although the Fraser Government (1975-1983) enacted legislation...
View ArticleA ‘heart to heart’ on race relations: TVNZ’s State of the Nation as public...
This article considers TVNZ's audience discussion programme, State of the Nation, as a moment of public sphere discourse.Keywords: indigenous public sphererace relationsNew...
View ArticleCurrent affairs - endangered and facing an uncertain future
This is a most important book especially for those concerned about the journalistic mission and its interplay with the effective functioning of democracy. The central question posed by Graeme Turner is...
View ArticleNot the perfect solution, but at least some hope
in the impossible relationships that exist in the Middle Easr each competing idelology has for years appeared to suffer from almost complete blindness to reality's complexity. Each is certain that the...
View ArticleThe suitcase, the samurai sword and the Pumpkin: Asian crime and NZ news...
In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case invovled the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a...
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How skilful communication won the real story: A Timor-Leste theatre of...
This is an extract from a keynote address by film maker and journalist Max Stahl, director of the Centro Audiovisual Max Stahl Timor-Leste (CAMSTL), at the 20th anniversary conference of Pacific...
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