Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 2, 2016 16:31:18 GMT 12
Nonsense from Radio NZ
Recently I (Willie Jackson) have been severely critical of Radio New Zealand’s Maori programming which came about because National radio cancelled their Maori News Te Manu Korihi last October.
This is an insult to Maori we are 15 percent of the population yet we only get 2 percent of Maori news and stories and that is simply not good enough.
I am the chair of the 21 station Maori radio network. We receive $11million from the Crown for broadcasting primarily in the Maori language. We have to be accountable at all times. Contrast that with National radio who receive $35million of taxpayers’ money, pay token respect to Maori stories, show little accountability and have been getting away with this for years.
The decision last year to cancel the Maori specific news in English means now that despite Maori being the treaty partner we now have no guaranteed voice on our National broadcaster.
We want our stories, our language and our people on National radio…..
www.waateanews.com/waateanews?story_id=MTI5OTM=
Recently I (Willie Jackson) have been severely critical of Radio New Zealand’s Maori programming which came about because National radio cancelled their Maori News Te Manu Korihi last October.
This is an insult to Maori we are 15 percent of the population yet we only get 2 percent of Maori news and stories and that is simply not good enough.
I am the chair of the 21 station Maori radio network. We receive $11million from the Crown for broadcasting primarily in the Maori language. We have to be accountable at all times. Contrast that with National radio who receive $35million of taxpayers’ money, pay token respect to Maori stories, show little accountability and have been getting away with this for years.
The decision last year to cancel the Maori specific news in English means now that despite Maori being the treaty partner we now have no guaranteed voice on our National broadcaster.
We want our stories, our language and our people on National radio…..
www.waateanews.com/waateanews?story_id=MTI5OTM=