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MĀORI NEWS IS BAD NEWS : That's certainly so on television

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MAI Journal 2012: Volume 1 Issue 1
Key words
Māori
television
news
coverage
comparative
Author(s)
Ray Nairn
Angela Moewaka Barnes
Belinda Borell
Jenny Rankine
Amanda Gregory
Tim McCreanor
Start page
38
End page
49

A television news bulletin tells us, in effect, what we should think about and the preferred way in which we should think about it. Analyses of New Zealand media have consistently shown that news about Māori is both relatively rare and that it prioritises violence and criminality. Researchers conclude this encourages New Zealanders to see Māori as threatening the social order and burdening our society. We examined the few Māori stories broadcast in a large representative sample of English-language television news bulletins and found the same negativity. As our sample included Māori-language news bulletins from the same days we know there were other Māori news stories available, so we conclude that the prioritising of negative stories about Māori in English-language media is a matter of choice. Focus groups with Māori and non-Māori media consumers demonstrate the impact of the relentlessly negative portrayals of Māori in New Zealand media.

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