Aimed to contribute to raising the level of debate about the New Zealand news media
The Blurb: The Media are dangerously under-debated in New Zealand. WHOSE NEWS? is one of the first collections of articles which critically examines the news media in this country.
Well-known New Zealanders dissect topical and controversial media subjects. Read, among others. Brian Edwards. Beverley Wakem and Judy McGregor on Ownership and Deregulation'; the Rt Hon. Sir Robert Muldoon and the Rt Hon. Mike Moore on 'Politics and the Media': Pat Booth and Derek Fox on Ethics and Values'; and Jack Shallcrass on 'Issues in Journalism'.
Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1992. 237 pp. ISBN 086469 157 2
Contents
Introduction
I Ownership and Deregulation
1. Brian Edwards - The 'Cootchie Coo' News
2. Judy McGregor - Who Owns the Press in New Zealand?
3. Beverley Wakem -Whatever Happened to Radio New Zealand?
4. Alan Cocker - Deregulation and Commercial Radio
5. Hugh Rennie
Broadcasting Following Deregulation
II Politics and the Media
6. Rt Hon. Sir Robert Muldoon - A Politician's View of the Parliamentary Press Gallery
7. Rt Hon. Mike Moore - The Reporting of New Zealand Politics
8. Steve Maharey - Politicians, the News Media and Democracy
9. Bob Harvey - Inventing the Truth
III Ethics and Values
10. Alastair Morrison and Philip Tremewan - The Myth of Objectivity
11. John Harvey - Objectivity, an Editor's Perspective
12. Jim Tully - Media Ethics... Holding on to the High Ground
13. Shirley Leitch - Sources of Discontent
14. Pat Booth - Investigative Journalism: The New Zealand Experience
15. Derek Fox - The Maori Perspective of the News
16. Allison Webber - Women in the Media: Wrestling with Old Values
17. Tony Wilton - 'Advertorials' and the Sponsorship of the News
IV Issues in Journalism
18. Jack Shallcrass - Gulf Watch and the Reporting of a War: The Right to Know
19. John Saunders - Greening the Media: The Rise of Environmental Reporting
20. Mike Behrens - Crime News... Whose Freedoms?
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