Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 8, 2020 9:38:41 GMT 12
STUFF AND MORE NONSENSE – THE PERTURBING CASE OF POLITICAL ADVERTS BEING REJECTED
The writers at Breaking Views should brace for further outrage, now that Stuff apparently has opted to take one side of the debate about the treaty and the application of treaty principles to the way we are administered and governed while– in Northland at least – it silences champions of the other side.
The lofty principle that is being nudged aside is the principle of free speech (although not altogether free in the case of paid advertising).
Stuff presumably now places greater importance on “treaty principles”, ALTHOUGH THESE HAVE BEEN PERTURBINGLY PLIABLE SINCE THE TREATY WAS SIGNED IN 1840.
Lord Normanby, Secretary of State for the Colonies when the British relationship with New Zealand was being finalised, approved the annexation of New Zealand to Britain and approved Captain William Hobson as the first Lieutenant-Governor.
In his final instructions to Hobson, Normanby called for him to gain “the free and intelligent consent of the Natives according to their customary usages” for “the recognition of Her Majesty’s sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands which they may be willing to place under Her Majesty’s dominion”.
Just three principles were to be included in a treaty: Justice, Fairness and Good Faith.
The principles of participation, partnership and protection (which Stuff and increasing numbers of other authorities find compelling) ARE MODERN POLITICAL-SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS.
But they are potent constructs, often invoked without challenge to change the way we are governed and administered.
Now (in the absence of a Stuff denial) they are being invoked by an influential component of our free press to suppress an expression of opinion.
Muzzling opinions because they conflict with the opinions of editorial managers would be perturbing at the best of times. Muzzling them when democratic governance arrangements are the critical matter at issue is shameful......
pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/stuff-and-more-nonsense-the-perturbing-case-of-political-adverts-being-rejected/
The writers at Breaking Views should brace for further outrage, now that Stuff apparently has opted to take one side of the debate about the treaty and the application of treaty principles to the way we are administered and governed while– in Northland at least – it silences champions of the other side.
The lofty principle that is being nudged aside is the principle of free speech (although not altogether free in the case of paid advertising).
Stuff presumably now places greater importance on “treaty principles”, ALTHOUGH THESE HAVE BEEN PERTURBINGLY PLIABLE SINCE THE TREATY WAS SIGNED IN 1840.
Lord Normanby, Secretary of State for the Colonies when the British relationship with New Zealand was being finalised, approved the annexation of New Zealand to Britain and approved Captain William Hobson as the first Lieutenant-Governor.
In his final instructions to Hobson, Normanby called for him to gain “the free and intelligent consent of the Natives according to their customary usages” for “the recognition of Her Majesty’s sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands which they may be willing to place under Her Majesty’s dominion”.
Just three principles were to be included in a treaty: Justice, Fairness and Good Faith.
The principles of participation, partnership and protection (which Stuff and increasing numbers of other authorities find compelling) ARE MODERN POLITICAL-SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS.
But they are potent constructs, often invoked without challenge to change the way we are governed and administered.
Now (in the absence of a Stuff denial) they are being invoked by an influential component of our free press to suppress an expression of opinion.
Muzzling opinions because they conflict with the opinions of editorial managers would be perturbing at the best of times. Muzzling them when democratic governance arrangements are the critical matter at issue is shameful......
pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/stuff-and-more-nonsense-the-perturbing-case-of-political-adverts-being-rejected/