Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 24, 2024 12:01:56 GMT 12
Graham Adams: MEDIA CHIEFS STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY.
Her view of democracy was equally divorced from reality. As New Zealand immerses itself in a highly charged debate about the “principles” of the Treaty of Waitangi and its status in New Zealand’s political life, it is alarming to find that Stuff already has a fixed editorial position on the matter.
Stuff’s charter, published in November 2020, states: “We commit to embed the Treaty of Waitangi principles of Partnership, Participation and Protection in the ethics and practice of our business.”
Anyone who is not ideologically blinkered can see that an interpretation of the Treaty as mandating a 50:50 partnership between iwi and the Crown — as it is often defined — is the basis for an ethno-state not a liberal democracy. Or certainly not a democracy dedicated to equal suffrage based on one person, one vote of equal value. Yet Boucher presumably sees no contradictions in her posing as a defender of democracy.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/graham-adams-media-chiefs-struggle-to.html
Her view of democracy was equally divorced from reality. As New Zealand immerses itself in a highly charged debate about the “principles” of the Treaty of Waitangi and its status in New Zealand’s political life, it is alarming to find that Stuff already has a fixed editorial position on the matter.
Stuff’s charter, published in November 2020, states: “We commit to embed the Treaty of Waitangi principles of Partnership, Participation and Protection in the ethics and practice of our business.”
Anyone who is not ideologically blinkered can see that an interpretation of the Treaty as mandating a 50:50 partnership between iwi and the Crown — as it is often defined — is the basis for an ethno-state not a liberal democracy. Or certainly not a democracy dedicated to equal suffrage based on one person, one vote of equal value. Yet Boucher presumably sees no contradictions in her posing as a defender of democracy.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/graham-adams-media-chiefs-struggle-to.html