Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 6, 2019 17:00:37 GMT 12
ISSUE OF ANONYMITY RAISED AS MEDIA COUNCIL UPHOLDS COMPLAINT
The Media Council has ruled that a published letter to the editor was gratuitously racist.
On June 28 The Gisborne Herald published an article about an online petition started by a group Kia Mau. The petition sought to collect support to stop the Cook replica ship Endeavour from visiting.
The article attracted six online comments, posted immediately below the article, of which five were anonymous.
On June 29 all six comments were published in the Letters to the Editor column of the newspaper.
On the posting it deemed to be racist the council noted the allegation in the first paragraph effectively was that Maori would not have any of the benefits of technology developed over the last 150 years without the arrival of the Endeavour and what followed.
The allegation in the last paragraph was that they were lucky not to be colonised by a worse group.
The statements by “G” go beyond an expression of opinion. The statement is insulting and has the racist overtone of “you would be nothing without colonisation”....
gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/4269569-135/issue-of-anonymity-raised-as-media
The Media Council has ruled that a published letter to the editor was gratuitously racist.
On June 28 The Gisborne Herald published an article about an online petition started by a group Kia Mau. The petition sought to collect support to stop the Cook replica ship Endeavour from visiting.
The article attracted six online comments, posted immediately below the article, of which five were anonymous.
On June 29 all six comments were published in the Letters to the Editor column of the newspaper.
On the posting it deemed to be racist the council noted the allegation in the first paragraph effectively was that Maori would not have any of the benefits of technology developed over the last 150 years without the arrival of the Endeavour and what followed.
The allegation in the last paragraph was that they were lucky not to be colonised by a worse group.
The statements by “G” go beyond an expression of opinion. The statement is insulting and has the racist overtone of “you would be nothing without colonisation”....
gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/4269569-135/issue-of-anonymity-raised-as-media