Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 1, 2022 8:54:49 GMT 12
Graham Adams: THE NO-GO AREAS THAT ARE KILLING MAINSTREAM MEDIA
David Seymour’s call in late March for a referendum on co-governance with iwi, for instance, has forced the debate into the public arena but last year both he and Judith Collins, when she was Leader of the Opposition, met a brick wall in trying to raise questions about the Government’s separatist agenda. Journalists took it upon themselves to shut down the debate by implying both politicians were “race-baiting” and that wanting to discuss He Puapua was a beat-up about an innocuous document.
The media has also done its level best to avoid covering the mātauranga Māori debate, even though the disciplinary action taken by the Royal Society against two of the professors who signed the letter to the Listener last July asserting indigenous knowledge isn’t science became an international cause célèbre.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/03/graham-adams-no-go-areas-that-are.html
David Seymour’s call in late March for a referendum on co-governance with iwi, for instance, has forced the debate into the public arena but last year both he and Judith Collins, when she was Leader of the Opposition, met a brick wall in trying to raise questions about the Government’s separatist agenda. Journalists took it upon themselves to shut down the debate by implying both politicians were “race-baiting” and that wanting to discuss He Puapua was a beat-up about an innocuous document.
The media has also done its level best to avoid covering the mātauranga Māori debate, even though the disciplinary action taken by the Royal Society against two of the professors who signed the letter to the Listener last July asserting indigenous knowledge isn’t science became an international cause célèbre.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/03/graham-adams-no-go-areas-that-are.html