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BSA fails to meet own standards

When is the murder of an elderly woman walking along a street justified? The implication of the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) 2015-101 ruling is that murder is justified when the scene of the crime in question is labelled…

Is Rachel Smalley above criticism?

Rachel Smalley is a New Zealand journalist and broadcaster who presents a regular morning radio show on Newstalk ZB and writes for the NZ Herald. In 2014 a complaint against her was upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority over an…

Radio NZ fails to challenge lies

Gone are the days of unbiased, credible international news coverage on Radio New Zealand. At least that’s the impression one gets from listening to recent “Worldwatch” broadcasts presented by John Greaves. On 2nd Feb and again on 3rd Feb and…

Update: Professor Poynting’s anti-Semitic letter

Mon, Nov 30 – As we reported, a University of Auckland Professor of hate crime, Scott Poynting, worte an anti-Semitic letter to the Waikato times. Mon, Dec 07 – The Waikato Times published two letters that call out Professor Poynting’s…

UoA Professor of hate crimes writes anti-Semitic letter

Prof Scott Poynting is a scholar of hate crime at the University of Auckland. Sadly ironically, he is also the author of a sickening anti-Semitic letter to the Waikato Times on Nov 28th. The letter is anti-Semitic primarily because it…

Otago Daily Times opinion struggles with truth

In his opinion piece for the Otago Daily Times on 28 October 2015, entitled “Netanyahu has difficulty with the truth”, noted Israeli detractor Gwynne Dyer lambasts Netanyahu for asserting that the idea for the Holocaust emanated not from the Nazis but…

Radio New Zealand “expert” academic ignores facts

Radio New Zealand published an article about recent Palestinian terror in Israel where it only included the opinion of Dr Nigel Parsons, an academic who has spoken on a “Palestinian Solidarity” panel and has strong links to BerZeit University, where Hamas is praised and Jews are…

Rare BSA ruling of imbalanced reporting

Imbalanced reporting is irresponsible journalism. Since 1991, there have been only 14 breaches of the balance standard by a radio network. In August, the BSA upheld a complaint against RadioNZ for its biased reporting of the Gaza conflict last year, ruling…

Inaccurate reporting of Gaza war misleads

Rachel Smalley mislead Kiwis through inaccurate reporting. The BSA has ruled that an opinion piece by Ms Smalley, on NewsTalkZB’s KPMG Early Edition, breached the standard of accuracy when she said Israeli had “killed every civilian inside”. Where other news…