The NZ media that would not die

The NZ media that would not die
David Cohen
An apology by one of the country’s major media companies for having produced “centuries” of racist journalism may ultimately say as much about the dramatically shifting state of local media ownership as it does about the current state of race relations in New Zealand.   In late November, Stuff offered what it described as an unreserved apology in the wake of an internal journalistic investigation into the historical portrayal of Māori subjects by its mastheads over the past 160 years.  Superficially, t...

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